A healthy mouth is key to protecting the well-being of people battling liver disease, a new study reports. Veterans with early-stage cirrhosis had fewer health problems and complications—including a lower risk of liver cancer—if ...
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For patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA), those with cutaneous psoriasis (PsC) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have an increased risk for complications, according to a study published online March 22 in the Journal ...
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Follicular lymphoma (FL) is a type of blood cancer and a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Thanks to new treatment breakthroughs, about 80% of FL patients have a survival rate of more than 10 years. The other 20%, however, ...
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A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has discovered how the immune system's CD8+ T cells ...
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Getting past the barrier surrounding the eye is a difficult but necessary part of treating retinoblastoma (RB)—a form of eye cancer that is more common in children. Once the barrier is penetrated, RB responds well to treatment. ...
Being born early or at a lower weight is linked to lower IQ scores and poorer educational outcomes in school and beyond, according to a new study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers from the UK and the Netherlands ...
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Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at the University of Oulu have developed a method that allows the increased movement of brain fluids ...
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