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PANTALONI STRETTI E CERETTA INTIMA RADDOPPIANO IL RISCHIO DI VULVODINIA

La vulvodinia è un dolore vulvare cronico, inspiegabile e debilitante, che colpisce circa il 16% delle donne nel corso della loro vita. Un nuovo studio della Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) dimostra che il rischio di vulvodinia è quasi raddoppiato indossando jeans o pantaloni aderenti quattro o più volte alla settimana, o rimuovendo i peli nelle parti intime.

Some biologic treatments for psoriasis may be safer for patients

Erica D. Dommasch. Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

A common chronic skin condition affecting 125 million people worldwide, psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, a class of disorders in which the immune system attacks the body's own healthy cells.

Gene therapy reverses rare immune disorder

Children born with a rare genetic disorder called X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (X-SCID) don’t have a functioning immune system. As a result, they can’t fight off infections. Without treatment, an infant with X-SCID will usually die within the first year or two of life.

Daily folic acid supplement may reduce risk of gestational diabetes

Taking a folic acid supplement daily before pregnancy may reduce the risk of gestational, or pregnancy-related, diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The findings appear in Diabetes Care.

ASH President: Medicare Proposal for CAR-T a Promising Step Forward

Earlier this week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to improve the reimbursement currently given to hospitals that provide chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy to blood cancer patients as part of the FY 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule.

 

Tessuto 3-D nello spazio per studiare le malattie nella microgravita'

Un chip di tessuto midollare midollo osseo aiuterà i ricercatori a esplorare il modo in cui il corpo combatte le infezioni. Biolines. Foto: Biolines Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

I modelli miniaturizzati di polmone e midollo osseo, rene, barriera ematoencefalica e cartilagine ossea partiranno il 30 aprile dall'International Space Station National Lab (ISS National Lab) su un razzo Falcon 9 da Cape Canaveral, in Florida. 

Drug helps people with rare chronic immune disorders

Under the microscope, blood from a patient with idiopathic HES reveals the presence of activated eosinophils. NIAID

Hypereosinophilic syndromes (HES) are conditions caused by higher-than-normal numbers of white blood cells, called eosinophils. These excess blood cells can build up inside tissues. Any organ system can be affected by HES.

Novel antibody may suppress HIV for up to four months

Regular infusions of an antibody that blocks the HIV binding site on human immune cells may have suppressed levels of HIV for up to four months in people undergoing a short-term pause in their antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens, according to a report published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Decline in measles vaccination is causing a preventable global resurgence of the disease

CDC/ Allison M. Maiuri, MPH, CHES

In 2000, measles was declared to be eliminated in the United States, when no sustained transmission of the virus was seen in this country for more than 12 months.

Stimolare le cellule staminali muscolari per trattare la distrofia muscolare e l' invecchiamento dei muscoli

Alessandra Sacco, Ph.D., autore senior dello studio e professore associato nel programma di sviluppo, invecchiamento e rigenerazione- Sanford Burnham Prebys. CREDIT: Sanford Burnham Prebys

All'interno dei nostri muscoli ci sono le cellule staminali, motori invisibili che guidano la crescita e la riparazione dei tessuti. Comprendere i segnali che indirizzano le cellule staminali muscolari a entrare in azione potrebbe scoprire nuovi modi per promuovere la crescita muscolare. Tuttavia, questi meccanismi sono poco conosciuti.