UC Davis study found that combining Western diet and antibiotic use is a pre- IBD risk factor UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – DAVIS HEALTH IMAGE OF SECTIONS OF THE COLON’S INNER LINING, BASED ON COMBINATIONS OF LOW-FAT DIET (LFD) VS. HIGH-FAT DIET (HFD), AND NO TREATMENT (MOCK) VS. WITH STREPTOMYCIN (STREP) TREATMENT…. view more CREDIT: UC...
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor) Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic systemic rheumatoid-inflammatory disease associated with inflammation of the spine. “The affected patients often have been experiencing spinal pain since early adulthood”, EULAR President Professor Dr Iain B. McInnes, Director of the Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, The University of Glasgow, Scotland, explains:...
With the growing interest in the accumulation of senescent cells as an important cause of aging, and more funding flowing into this part of the field, researchers are uncovering numerous direct links between cellular senescence and age-related conditions. Senescent cells cause harm to tissues via their inflammatory secretions, the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). The SASP...
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA AT AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY DRS. JACK YU AND BABAK BABAN view more CREDIT: PHIL JONES, SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER, AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY Cannabidiol, or CBD, may help reduce the cytokine storm and excessive lung inflammation that is killing many patients with COVID-19, researchers say. While more work, including clinical trials to determine optimal dosage and...
by University of Illinois at Chicago UIC’s Xiaoping Du oversees Ph.D. student Yaping Zhanga enter a sample in an aggregometer in his lab at the College of Medicine Research Building Credit: Joshua Clark/University of Illinois at Chicago Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a new drug that prevents blood clots without...
By Sally Robertson, B.Sc. Researchers at the University of California San Diego have conducted a study showing that both smoking and the use of e-cigarettes containing nicotine and flavorings may critically exacerbate inflammation in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and significantly worsen clinical outcomes. The use of e-cigs that do not contain nicotine or...
For some individuals with COVID-19, recovering from the acute phase of the infection is only the beginning, John Swartzberg warns. Worrying reports now indicate that the coronarvirus may be capable of inflicting long-lasting damage to the lungs, heart, and nervous system, and researchers are closely watching to see if the kidneys, liver, and gastrointestinal tract...
by Columbia University Irving Medical Center After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease. “I was on the front lines right from the beginning. I observed that patients were...
When it comes to gut health, Viome’s Gut Intelligence Test is absolutely the best place to start. However, if you’re looking to take things a step further, you should check out Viome’s new Health Intelligence Service. It gives you everything you get with the Gut Intelligence Service. However, it also includes a human gene expression...
By VANESSA CHALMERS HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 13:41 EDT, 10 July 2020 | UPDATED: 13:54 EDT, 10 July 2020 Of a small number of patients, 15% died compared with the 85% expected Overall 70% of patients who were on the brink of death saw improvements The researchers admitted they did not expect such positive...
