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Mashup Score: 49Machine Learning Study Offers Clues to Why Some People Have Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain Without Inflammation - 3 day(s) ago
About 1.5 million adults in the U.S. are living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks joint tissue, causing inflammation, swelling, and pain. Trea…
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Mashup Score: 107Study Suggests Treatments that Unleash Immune Cells in the Brain Could Help Combat Alzheimer’s - 10 day(s) ago
In Alzheimer’s disease, a buildup of sticky amyloid proteins in the brain clump together to form plaques, causing damage that gradually leads to worsening dementia symptoms. A promising way to chan…
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Mashup Score: 27Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Health Conditions During and After Pregnancy is On the Rise, But Disparities Still Exist - 17 day(s) ago
Pregnancy and childbirth are often thought of as joyful times. Yet, we know that mental health conditions including perinatal depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are comm…
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Mashup Score: 148
Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of death from cancer in the United States. We know that risk of colorectal cancer goes up with age, certain coexisting health conditions, family history, smokin…
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Mashup Score: 50Fear Switch in the Brain May Point to Target for Treating Anxiety Disorders Including PTSD - 1 month(s) ago
There’s a good reason you feel fear creep in when you’re walking alone at night in an unfamiliar place or hear a loud and unexpected noise ring out. In those moments, your brain triggers other part…
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Mashup Score: 61Immune Checkpoint Discovery Has Implications for Treating Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases - 1 month(s) ago
Your immune system should ideally recognize and attack infectious invaders and cancerous cells. But the system requires safety mechanisms, or brakes, to keep it from damaging healthy cells. To do t…
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Mashup Score: 38Welcoming Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf for Rall Cultural Lecture on AI in Biomedical Research - 1 month(s) ago
Last week it was my pleasure to welcome to NIH Vinton “Vint” Cerf, a pioneer of the digital world widely known as one of the “fathers of the internet,” to speak at our annual J. Edward Rall Cultura…
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Mashup Score: 117Study Suggests During Sleep, Neural Process Helps Clear the Brain of Damaging Waste - 2 month(s) ago
We’ve long known that sleep is a restorative process necessary for good health. Research has also shown that the accumulation of waste products in the brain is a leading cause of numerous neurologi…
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Mashup Score: 57Healing Switch Links Acute Kidney Injury to Fibrosis, Suggesting Way to Protect Kidney Function - 2 month(s) ago
Healthy kidneys—part of the urinary tract—remove waste and help balance chemicals and fluids in the body. However, our kidneys have a limited ability to regenerate healthy tissue after sustaining i…
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Mashup Score: 42
We’re living in an especially promising time for biomedical discovery and advances in the delivery of data-driven health care for everyone. A key part of this is the tremendous progress made in app…
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Some people experience terrible pain from rheumatoid arthritis despite showing minimal joint inflammation. New research reveals the cause may be pain-sensing neurons communicating with cells near the joints. Read more on my blog: https://t.co/PcG0zG7FCQ #NIH