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Revealing the key player in oral submucous fibrosis: Could COMP be the solution?

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Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a serious disease that impairs mouth functionality, often leading to restricted opening and a high risk of malignant transformation. New research has uncovered a crucial player in this disease: cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP).

Research opens doors of access to youth mental health services

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University of Alberta students, researchers and community members helped shape a cross-Canada initiative that has improved the way youth mental health services are delivered across the country, allowing more patients to be seen, assessed and started on treatment right away.

Q&A: How halt in funding hurts efforts to ensure safety of patients in medical research

MyBlueDots2 months ago01 mins

The Trump administration’s freeze of more than $2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard has disrupted work in a number of areas, including efforts to ensure the rights and safety of patients who take part in medical studies.

Tempted to turn on the AC? Science says use fans until it’s 27°C

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Many Australians struggle to keep themselves cool affordably and effectively, particularly with rising electricity prices. This is becoming a major health concern, especially for our most vulnerable people such as the elderly, pregnant women and people with cardiovascular diseases.

Stage 0 cancer is often overlooked, but it could be your earliest warning sign

MyBlueDots2 months ago01 mins

At 71, Tina Knowles—the fashion designer, businesswoman, and mother of Beyoncé—made headlines not for her career, but for a deeply personal revelation: her breast cancer diagnosis. In 2023, a routine mammogram uncovered two tumors in her left breast, one benign and the other malignant. Diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer, she underwent surgery and is now cancer-free.

Novel CAR-T therapy achieves positive results in a high proportion of patients with a refractory type of lymphoma

MyBlueDots2 months ago01 mins

Researchers from the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau), in collaboration with Sant Pau Hospital and the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute, have developed an innovative CAR-T cell therapy targeting the CD30 protein (HSP-CAR30), which has shown high efficacy in patients with refractory CD30+ lymphoma.

Women are overtaking men in the most extreme sports events, study shows

MyBlueDots2 months ago01 mins

Much of the work devoted to exploring potential sex-specific differences in exercise or sports performance has been derived from laboratory-based studies. While these studies are typically well-controlled and guide an understanding of physiological mechanisms, they may lack pragmatic or practical relevance to the “real world.”

Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics

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Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 365,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows.

Risk-factor changes could prevent the majority of sudden cardiac arrests

MyBlueDots2 months ago01 mins

A new study identifying 56 non-clinical risk factors associated with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), spanning lifestyle, physical measures, psychosocial factors, socioeconomic status, and the local environment, offers compelling evidence that improving these unfavorable profiles could prevent up to 63% of SCA cases.

Virologists issue urgent call to global action as H5N1 avian flu threat rises

MyBlueDots2 months ago01 mins

The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from 80+ Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in 40+ countries, has published a comprehensive analysis and call-to-action in The Lancet Regional Health—Americas on the North American avian influenza virus, or H5N1, outbreak.

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An AI-based classification system for facial pigmented lesions

Engineers create first immunocompetent leukemia device for CAR T immunotherapy screening

Improvements to patient recovery strategies lower long-term opioid usage after colorectal surgery

Proteins important in brain communication have different roles than previously thought

Hidden bias may leave women and older adults underdiagnosed for HIV in Spain

Revealing the key player in oral submucous fibrosis: Could COMP be the solution?

Research opens doors of access to youth mental health services

Q&A: How halt in funding hurts efforts to ensure safety of patients in medical research

Tempted to turn on the AC? Science says use fans until it’s 27°C

Stage 0 cancer is often overlooked, but it could be your earliest warning sign

Novel CAR-T therapy achieves positive results in a high proportion of patients with a refractory type of lymphoma

Women are overtaking men in the most extreme sports events, study shows

Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics

Risk-factor changes could prevent the majority of sudden cardiac arrests

Virologists issue urgent call to global action as H5N1 avian flu threat rises

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