Cannabis appears to be a safe and potentially effective treatment for the chronic pain that afflicts people with sickle cell disease, according to a new
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Effect of Eubacterium limosum on health? A special bacterium in the gut seems to reduce the risk for heart disease. The bacterium reduces the production
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A type of smart MRI scan used in people with heart disease could help assess whether children’s cancers are especially aggressive and spot early signs
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Following a major clinical trial, clinicians find the drug allopurinol does not prevent worsening of kidney disease. The Australasian Kidney Trials Network led a large,
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Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have teamed up with OHSU spinoff, Najít Technologies, Inc. to develop a new vaccine that appears to confer
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Women with HIV who experience persistently high levels of stress or depression have a significantly greater risk of plaque building up in their arteries than
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In Australia, more than 1.1 million people currently have type 2 diabetes. A host of potential complications associated with the disease mean a 45-year-old diagnosed
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In the 1970s, an epidemic of mysterious arthritis-like symptoms began spreading among children in the lushly wooded area around Lyme, Connecticut. Scientists traced the cause
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It was a pretty simple e-mail. Just a couple of lines. “It looks like low-dose ketamine is an up-regulator for ADNP. Do you think this
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Certain genetic changes, termed “pathogenic variants,” substantially increase risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer—the leading causes of death—but testing to identify individual carriers is not
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