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Researchers addressing treatment before Alzheimer’s disease strikes
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Addressing Preclinical Alzheimer’s: Researchers Caution Against Overtreatment

U-M experts discuss treatments for dementia and important questions about potentially over treating the disease.
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Diabetic Wound Care: New Discovery Points Toward Possible Treatment for Non-Healing Wounds

A new discovery points towards a possible treatment for non-healing, diabetic wound care
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Partnership Guides New Approach to Acute Aortic Dissection

Upon uncovering that inadequate blood flow can be a more imminent, life-threatening problem than aortic rupture for some patients, doctors emerge with a new procedural method.
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Genetic Origin of Severe Developmental Eye Condition Identified

Genetic Origin of Severe Developmental Eye Condition Identified
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Moments of Clarity, Glimmers of Hope

How unexpected awakenings in dementia patients might shed new light on the disease, according to University of Michigan researcher and colleagues
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‘Mystical’ Psychedelic Compound Found in Normal Brains

A study in rats has revealed the presence of naturally occurring dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an increasingly popular hallucinogen.
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Newly Defined Cancer Driver is Fast, Furious and Loud

Researchers characterize three ways in which the gene FOXA1 mutates to trigger prostate cancer.
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By Cannibalizing Nearby Stromal Stem Cells, Some Breast Cancer Cells Gain Invasion Advantage

Cancer biologists and engineers collaborated on a device that could help predict the likelihood of breast cancer metastasis.
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Nitro-oleic Acid Shows Promise as NAFLD Treatment in Mice

U-M researchers identify a potential treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Targeting Inflammation to Better Understand Dangerous Blood Clots

Forty percent of people who develop venous thromboembolism don’t know what caused it. New research in mice further explores inflammation’s role.
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Approach Could Help in Treating Glioblastoma, Other Rare Cancers

Michigan-led research presents a new way of uncovering predictive biomarkers when data from large randomized trials aren’t available.
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After 2 Years, Immunotherapy Shows Doubled Median Survival Time for Advanced Lung Cancer Patients

A 600-patient randomized clinical trial supports pembrolizumab and chemotherapy as a first-line treatment
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Study Explores Why Prostate Cancer Mortality is Higher in Black Men

The largest study of its kind finds societal factors and access to quality care, rather than genetics, underlies higher prostate cancer mortality rates for black men.
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Discovery in Mice Could Remove Roadblock to More Insulin Production

New research shows that a combination of two immune-system factors could open up new avenues for treating diabetes and obesity.
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U-M Compounds Show Promise in a Lab Model of Advanced Prostate Cancer

A new study finds that U-M-designed compounds led to significantly smaller, slower-growing tumors.