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Living donors may benefit transplant patients

February 1, 2019 benefit, donors, Living, may, patients, transplant

For a patient awaiting a new organ—namely a liver or kidney—living donation provides a viable alternative and can often shorten

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Researchers find TNF cannot be used as a biomarker for RA treatment discontinuation

January 31, 2019 A, As, be, biomarker, cannot, discontinuation, Find, for, RA, Researchers, TNF, treatment, Used

A team of researchers from the Netherlands, the U.S. and the U.K. has found evidence that suggests tumor necrosis factor

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Expert-based clinical guidelines focus on behavioral symptoms in Huntington’s disease

January 30, 2019 behavioral, clinical, disease, Expert-based, focus, guidelines, Huntington's, in, on, symptoms

Although Huntington’s disease (HD) is traditionally thought of as a neurological disorder, behavioral symptoms are a common feature and frequently

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New cell model of most common form of Alzheimer’s points to molecular causes, drug target

January 30, 2019 Alzheimer's, Causes, cell, common, drug, form, model, molecular, Most, New, of, points, target, to

Harvard Medical School geneticists have created a new model-in-a-dish of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for more than 90 percent

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Experts share how our relationships with each other, the world around us and ourselves can make us happy

January 29, 2019 and, around, Can, each, experts, happy, How, Make, Other, our, ourselves, Relationships, Share, the, US, with, world

Depending on who you ask, happiness can be a lot of things. The Dalai Lama might tell you that happiness

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Study suggests people become susceptible to social influence around age 12

January 29, 2019 12, age, around, become, influence, people, social, study, suggests, susceptible, to

An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests children begin to become susceptible to social influence when they

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Myocarditis: Overshooting the mark

January 29, 2019 mark, Myocarditis:, Overshooting, the

Researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that a protein called midkine, a member of the class of signaling

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Study suggests how high blood pressure might contribute to Alzheimer’s

January 28, 2019 Alzheimer's, Blood, contribute, high, How, might, pressure, study, suggests, to

The brain’s system for removing waste is driven primarily by the pulsations of adjoining arteries, University of Rochester neuroscientists and

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First US patient in novel stem cell trial for stroke disability enrolled at UTHealth

January 26, 2019 at, cell, Disability, enrolled, First, for, in, novel, Patient, stem, Stroke, trial, US, UTHealth

The first U.S. patient to participate in a global study of a stem cell therapy injected directly into the brain

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New therapeutic target for graft-vs-host disease could make bone marrow transplant safer

January 25, 2019 bone, Could, disease, for, graft-vs-host, Make, marrow, New, safer, target, therapeutic, transplant

Bone marrow transplant (BMT) offers patients with leukemia and lymphoma a potentially curative treatment. Bone marrow from the donor contains

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