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Immune checkpoint protein VISTA can directly turn off T-cells during immunotherapy,...
A Cleveland Clinic-led team of scientists and physicians have discovered that the immune checkpoint protein VISTA can directly turn off tumor-fighting T-cells during immunotherapy...
Gut bacteria Ruminococcus gnavus can enhance the effects of cancer immunotherapy
Roughly one in five cancer patients benefits from immunotherapy – a treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer. Such an approach to...
Zika virus-specific synthetic molecule can differentiate between prior infections with different...
A newly discovered Zika virus-specific synthetic molecule is capable of differentiating Zika-immune patient samples from samples of patients previously infected with the related dengue...
Nursing Homes wield pandemic immunity laws to duck wrongful death suits
In early 2020, with reports of covid-19 outbreaks making dire headlines, Trever Schapers worried about her father’s safety in a nursing home in Queens.
She...
Does the ‘Stomach Flu’ Vaccine Prevent Type I Diabetes?
Rotavirus is the major cause of gastroenteritis (stomach flu) in infants worldwide. Gastroenteritis-linked mortality in infants has substantially decreased since the advent of rotavirus...
Countries struggle to draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to avoid mistakes made during...
GENEVA (AP) — After the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization and worldwide vowed to...
Repurposed nasal antibiotic neomycin shows promise in preventing and treating respiratory...
In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from Yale University's School of Medicine...
Vitamin D receptor polymorphism found to influence COVID-19 severity
In a recent case-control study published in Scientific Reports, researchers compared single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene between mild and severe...
An NIH Genetics Study Targets a Long-Standing Challenges Diversity
In his 2015 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced a precision medicine initiative that would later be known as the All of Us program. The research, now well underway...
Toxic Gas adds to a long History of pollution in Southwest...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on Florida Street a...
Medical Residents are increasingly avoiding States with abortion restrictions
Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice:...
Paid sick leave expands after many pandemic protections vanish
Bill Thompson's wife had never seen him smile with confidence. For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed...
CRISPR Gene Editing Leads to Improvements in Vision for People With...
Boston, Mass. — Results from a groundbreaking clinical trial of CRISPR gene editing in 14 individuals with a form of inherited blindness show that the...
Durable lymph-node expansion improves vaccine responses against tumors
Each one of us has around 600 lymph nodes (LNs) - small, bean-shaped organs that house various types of blood cells and filter lymph...
Novel vaccine approach targets AML and other blood cancers
Acute myeloid leukemia AML is a type of blood cancer that forms in the soft marrow of the bones, typically attacking cells that would...
New vaccine promises broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 and other sarbecoviruses
Background
The most recent beta-coronavirus to develop is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and it is the cause of the terrible coronavirus...
FDA announces recall of heart pumps linked to deaths and injuries
The FDA stated on Monday that two heart devices that have been connected to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths have become...
Study shows daily glucose levels fluctuate more than we thought, challenging...
The impact of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) on fasting glucose variability (FG) fluctuation in non-diabetic adults on diabetes categorization and its correlation with clinical...
COVID-19 and Heart Damage
Over 200 million people were infected during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and over 4.5 million of those cases resulted in death. While...
How has COVID-19 Changed the Delivery of Care?
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant transformations in healthcare and care services, prompting a reevaluation of established norms and assumptions...
Solar eclipse 2024: What to do if your eyes hurt afterwards
Monday's total eclipse in North America was followed - as eclipses around the world often are - with a surge of web searches for...