Being overweight linked to significantly higher disease severity in psoriatic arthritis
Study emphasizes the need for weight loss interventions alongside symptomatic treatment in patients with psoriatic arthritis Annual European Congress of...
Exposure to inorganic dust increases risk of gout in women by 27%
Results also show that gout is more than twice as likely in alcoholic patients and more than three times as...
Gout patients suffer in silence with low expectations of treatment
European survey suggests patients re satisfied with their treatment despite inadequate disease management Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2019)...
Study supports glucocorticoid tapering in patients achieving disease control on tocilizumab
Approximately two thirds of patients experience treatment success following glucocorticoid tapering Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2019) Madrid, Spain,...
Cyclosporine benefits patients through more rapid remission of proteinuria in lupus nephritis
Cyclosporine, azathioprine and mycophenolate mofetil proved to be effective in consolidating and maintaining remission after 10 years follow up Madrid,...
Low-dose prednisolone significantly improves pain symptoms and function in hand osteoarthritis
HOPE study demonstrates that local inflammation is a suitable target for treatment in patients with debilitating disease Madrid, Spain, 12...
Why fears over smartphone ‘addiction’ are based on flawed evidence
Credit: Lancaster University Most studies into the impact of technology use on psychological wellbeing rely on flawed measures say researchers....
Community pharmacies make a lifestyle impact for patients with prostate cancer
Cardiovascular health and physical activity levels of prostate cancer patients improve following successful interventions by community pharmacies, new research in...
Antibodies against HPV16 can develop up to 40 years before throat cancer is diagnosed
HPV16 antibodies mark a 100-fold increase in risk in white people An international group of researchers has found that antibodies...
Vitamin D and estradiol help guard against heart disease, stroke, and diabetes
New study demonstrates synergistic effects of vitamin D and estradiol deficiency on metabolic syndrome CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 12, 2019)--Vitamin D...
Cancer survival rates in the young show inconsistent progress
A new study in JNCI Cancer Spectrum finds that dramatic increases in cancer survival in adolescents and young adults are...
Climate change benefits for giant petrels
Credit: Richard Sherley Giant petrels will be "temporary" winners from the effects of climate change in the Antarctic region -...
New finding: Biomarker indicates tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis in men with prostate cancer
Addition of the protein CCN3 on biomarker panel may further help predict prostate cancer metastasis to bone, according to a...
Why Noah’s ark won’t work
For ocean species to survive climate change, large populations neededCredit: Joshua Brown/UVM A Noah's Ark strategy will fail. In the...
Women caught in a pickle by their own immune systems
ASU scientists develop new hypothesis explaining sex differences in human diseasesCredit: Jacob Sahertian/ASU VisLab Women get autoimmune diseases, such as...
Brain activation provides individual-level prediction of bipolar disorder risk
Activation patterns predicting mania symptom severity offer a potential neural biomarker to identify young people at risk for bipolar spectrum...
The sun may have a dual personality, simulations suggest
Researchers at CU Boulder have discovered hints that humanity's favorite star may have a dual personality, with intriguing discrepancies in...
Adaptive optics, human-guided robot learning highlight OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress
Plenary talks by Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Dongheui Lee give overviews of some of the latest advances in the field MUNICH,...
Rare ‘superflares’ could one day threaten Earth
Astronomers probing the edges of the Milky Way have in recent years observed some of the most brilliant pyrotechnic displays...
An unnatural way to make natural products
Credit: University of South Florida From medicine to fragrances, nature provides many of the key chemical compounds needed in an...
