July 17, 2023 3 min read Source/Disclosures Published by: Disclosures: Dinan reports grants from NCI outside the submitted work. Please see the study for all other authors’ relevant financial disclosures. ADD TOPIC TO EMAIL ALERTS Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new […]
Lucia Masarova, MD, PhD An overperforming JAK-STAT pathway, including the presence of JAK2, CALR, and MPL gene mutations leads to high platelet count in patients with essential thrombocytopenia (ET).1 Safe and potent therapies are needed for these populations, especially for those requiring cytoreduction, regardless of their prior exposure to hydroxyurea and/or anagrelide, according to Lucia […]
Redlining, a historical housing discrimination practice, continues to be linked to worse cardiovascular health among U.S. veterans, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. The analysis used data from the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), a New Deal program that was created by Congress in the 1930s in an attempt to make homeownership more […]
A shark’s menacing teeth can scare anyone out of the water — but one aspect of some sharks’ existence may be worth emulating: their ability to regrow teeth. An experimental medicine in Japan that could revolutionize the field of dentistry is now moving to clinical trials to create, potentially, the world’s first medicine to regrow […]
Understanding blood pressure readings can be tricky. While most people know they don’t want their blood pressure to get too high (hypertension) or too low (hypotension), many people don’t know how to tell the difference. Some also don’t understand what blood pressure means. “Blood pressure is a measure of force necessary to move blood from […]
