by Melissa Rohman, Northwestern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of Northwestern investigators led by Peter Penzes, Ph.D., the Ruth and Evelyn Dunbar Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment, has developed a new therapy that could treat Phelan-McDermid syndrome, a subtype of autism spectrum disorder...
by The Scripps Research Institute Janda and his team isolated a series of unique antibodies that were able to distinguish between heroin and its major psychoactive metabolites. After selecting four antibodies for their superior binding abilities, the researchers found that one clearly outperformed the rest in reversing heroin’s nociceptive and lethal effects. Credit: Scripps Research...
July 7, 2022, 7:21 AM MSTBy Sarah Jacoby Like many young people, Chase, 18, noticed she was developing symptoms of depression when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Although she’d tried medications and therapy, Chase felt her symptoms get worse over the course of a few months. And she knew things were really getting serious when thoughts of suicide crept in....
UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA (UOC) IMAGE: PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THERAPY IMPROVES SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION IN WOMEN WITH FIBROMYALGIA CREDIT: CHRONIC JOY MINISTRY Fibromyalgia is a rheumatic disease of unknown origin, which is characterized by chronic pain and often accompanied by symptoms of depression. It mainly affects women, and there is no cure, but various treatments can help relieve...
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among American men, after lung cancer; an estimated 34,130 men will die of prostate cancer this year. Credit…James Benet/iStock By Roni Caryn Rabin June 24, 2021 An experimental therapy has prolonged life in men with aggressive prostate cancer that has resisted other treatments, offering new hope to patients...
by Emily Ayshford, University of Chicago Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that affects millions worldwide, can cause debilitating symptoms for those who suffer from it. Though treatments exist, researchers are still searching for therapies that could more effectively treat the disease, or even prevent it altogether. Researchers at the Pritzker School of Molecular...
by Tabea Kemna, Karolinska Institutet In an interdisciplinary study combining stem cell biology and tumor biology, researchers from Karolinska Institutet (as well as Uppsala and Lund University, together with researchers in Canada, Germany and France), have succeeded in creating a new type of stem cell model for studies on cancer of the brain. The study...
by Deborah Kotz, University of Maryland School of Medicine Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) evaluated several human antibodies to determine the most potent combination to be mixed in a cocktail and used as a promising anti-viral therapy against the virus that causes COVID-19. Their research, conducted in collaboration with scientists...
By SASHA CUTTLER, MARY MAGEE, and GUY VANDENBERGMAY 18, 2020 As nurses who worked in 5B, the first U.S. hospital ward dedicated HIV/AIDS, which opened in San Francisco General Hospital in 1983, we have been directly affected in profound ways by the disease and its opportunistic infections. One of us is HIV-positive, infected from exposure...
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Patients with heart failure have substantially shorter life expectancies than people without this condition. Approximately 6.5 million people in the U.S. and over 64 million people worldwide have heart failure, and about half of them have heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). In the last three decades, there have...
