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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Heart Failure: Is There a Connection?
A Michigan Medicine team looks into the prevalence of NAFLD in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
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Scientists Train Computers to Recognize Which Early Stage Breast Cancers Will Spread
The new approach could help doctors to separate aggressive stage 0 breast cancer from non-aggressive forms, sparing some women unnecessary mastectomies.
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Making Strides Against Childhood Brain Cancers
A roundup of several recent Michigan Medicine discoveries that are shedding new light on pediatric brain cancers and helping to improve treatment options.
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Antibiotic Molecule Enables Immune System to Kill HIV Infected Cells
New research shows that targeting a protein called Nef with a molecule called concanamycin A allowed the immune system to essentially cure HIV in T cells.
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Uncovering the Genetics Behind Heart Attacks That Surprise Young, Healthy Women
New genetic research finds spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, heart attacks may be more similar to different diseases than to other heart attacks.
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Does PPI Response Predict Other Conditions?
A research scientist and his team examine the relationship between proton pump inhibitors, endoscopy, esophageal conditions and psychological distress for patients with GERD.
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New Connections Reveal How Cancer Evades the Immune System
A new study shows tumor cells eat up a key amino acid, depriving immune cells of it, which prevents them from fighting off cancer.
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Investigational New Therapy Prevents Onset of Dravet Syndrome Symptoms in Mice
Development is first step to helping children with the rare epilepsy syndrome.
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Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Sheds New Light on Cancer Cells’ Varied Response to Chemotherapy
Single-cell RNA sequencing study offers new insights that could help researchers make chemotherapy more effective in the future.
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Leveraging Prostate Cancer Research Against COVID-19
Is there a connection between COVID-19 and cancer? Researchers at Michigan Medicine looking to prostate cancer research in the fight against coronavirus.
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Study Suggests New Potential Approach Against Fatal Childhood Brain Cancer
In mouse models of DIPG, simultaneously attacking two metabolic pathways led to significant improvements in survival.
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Oxygen Therapy Harms Lung Microbiome in Mice
New research in mice suggests that understanding the role of the lung microbiome may be pivotal to reducing infection brought on by oxygen treatment for hypoxemia.
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Lean Americans with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Have Lower Rates of Cirrhosis
The rate of cirrhosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is lower among Americans with lower BMIs.
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Study Suggests New Approach to Improve Radiation Therapy Resistance in Glioblastoma
Cancer treatment research for glioblastoma enters new phase with FDA-approved drug trial that aims to improve the effect of radiation therapy on this aggressive brain cancer.
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Insulin Cost-Sharing Caps May Help Kids, Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes
Although additional policies are needed to relieve insulin’s financial burden, researchers find a national cost-sharing cap helps privately insured patients pay less out-of-pocket.
