Irritable bowel syndrome: scientists have found the cause, paving the way for a new treatment
Researchers have found the cause of irritable bowel syndrome and the pain associated with it: the activation of mast cell ...
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Prostate cancer: a bacterium provides a “turbo” effect to immunotherapy
Salmonella, kept at room temperature, is able to identify cancer cells that the immune system cannot see. This discovery augurs ...
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Stem cells, repositioned drugs or molecules: where are we at with treatments for Covid-19?
While vaccines have been available since the end of last year, no treatment that can effectively cure Covid-19 has been ...
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Deafness: a promising gene therapy
With treatment based on the genetic input into inner ear cells, children born with a genetic mutation causing deafness could ...
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Multiple sclerosis: a link with the intestinal flora
According to a recent study, in patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, a specific class of immune cells plays a central ...
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Alzheimer’s disease: should treatments be based on gender?
Researchers note that to treat Alzheimer's disease, the effectiveness of drugs is not the same depending on the sex of ...
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Cancer: a gene that promotes metastases and resistance to treatment identified
One of the genes whose mutations are frequently implicated in cancer has been identified for the first time. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Severe forms of Covid-19: a genetic lead that opens the way to new treatments
The trail of genetic particularities explaining certain serious forms of Covid-19 is becoming clearer. And it could allow the use ...
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Treatment of atrial fibrillation: the difficult balance between thrombotic risk and hemorrhagic risk
The main risk of atrial fibrillation is stroke due to the possible formation of blood clots in the atrium of ...
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Remdesivir-baricitinib, the ideal cocktail to treat Covid-19?
The combination of the anti-inflammatory baricitinib with the antiviral remdesivir seems to accelerate the recovery of people hospitalized for a ...
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Covid-19 vaccine: what strategy for immunocompromised people?
Immunocompromised people would not run any health risks from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, according to an infectious disease specialist. But ...
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Tomorrow it will be possible to treat glaucoma with hydrogel
By injecting hydrogel into the eye, it would be possible to create an opening capable of letting excess fluid from ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis: the film of the disease increasingly understood
The severity of rheumatoid arthritis is often moderate but this pathology is disabling and painful. We are beginning to see ...
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Breaking your shoulder falling from your height may be a sign of osteoporosis
Although the track of osteoporosis is not necessarily privileged in the event of a fracture of the shoulder, it should ...
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Alcoholism: how is addiction created?
Excessive alcohol consumption disrupts the functioning of the amygdala in the brain. This alters the anti-inflammatory mechanisms and leads to ...
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Progeria: Zokinvy, the first drug to improve patient life expectancy
The Zokinvy has been developed for more than ten years in the United States and gives hope to children with ...
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Hospitalized “Covid” patients: WHO advises against remdesivir
The first drug to receive European marketing authorization to treat severe forms of Covid-19, remdesivir is not recommended by the ...
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How to reduce dementia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Treatment reduces the risk of dementia by 17% in people with rheumatoid arthritis. THE ESSENTIAL DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs) ...
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Covid-19: aspirin, potential treatment against thrombosis
A large UK clinical trial has been launched to investigate whether aspirin can reduce the risk of thrombosis caused by ...
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Cancer: a month of delay in treatment is enough for the risk of death to increase
Delays in cancer treatment lead to an increase in the risk of death from 6 to 13%, which increases as ...
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Covid-19: treatment options become clearer
In parallel with the race for the vaccine, the race towards treatments for Covid-19 is being played out. Three drugs ...
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Covid-19: Germans advance on vaccine and treatment
The results of phase 1 of the vaccine candidate developed by the German biotech CureVac showed an immune response in ...
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How does the “super” antibody against Covid-19 work?
Spotted at the start of the epidemic in an American patient, this antibody would be 560 times more powerful than ...
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Pancreatic cancer: a discovery that should lead to better patient care
A "molecular signature" has been identified in pancreatic cancer. Hope for patients to benefit from better targeted treatments. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Risk factors, prevention, screening, treatments: update on the latest advances in breast cancer
To conclude this Pink October, Professor Gilles Freyer, head of the medical oncology department at the Hospices Civils de Lyon ...
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Covid-19: trials on the drug anakinra suspended, those on the Oxford vaccine resume
Trials of the drug anakrina, which first showed encouraging results for treating severe forms of Covid-19, were stopped following unexplained ...
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Regulatory T lymphocytes: a new target against autoimmune diseases?
A molecule is able to control the activity of these lymphocytes, whose role is important in the inflammation process. THE ...
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Better treatment for HIV soon to be generalized
Dolutegravir, a molecule already used in the treatment of HIV, could be generalized to treat all new HIV infections, which ...
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Melanoma: a blood marker helps optimize treatment
The level of tumor DNA circulating in the blood would determine the intensity of treatment necessary to treat melanoma. THE ...
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A treatment against multiple sclerosis would be effective against Covid-19
In a laboratory test, dimethyl fumarate showed its ability to prevent virus replication. THE ESSENTIAL The drug made it possible ...
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