August 29, 2025

Guideline on respiratory infections in leukemia revised

August 29, 2025 / Clinical Practice / InnovateMed Author / leukemia

Medicine Peer-Reviewed Publication Ruhr-University Bochum Infections are more dangerous “Patients with cancer of the blood are particularly susceptible to respiratory infections, especially in the early stages of the disease or during and after highly immunosuppressive therapies, such as stem cell transplantation,” says Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal. “Many infections that otherwise healthy people consider trivial are more […]

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The brain’s activity at rest may provide clues to Alzheimer’s disease progression, diagnosis

August 29, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / alzheimer disease

Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Michigan Some regions of the brain in people with Alzheimer’s reorganize more often while at rest than in people without the disease––and in healthy people this frequent reshuffling sometimes predicts who will develop the condition later, according to a new study from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. The brain’s

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Gene therapy restores functionality in non-human primates after heart attacks

August 29, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / heart attack

New approach uses bacterial genes to restore both strength and rhythm of damaged hearts Peer-Reviewed Publication Duke University Biomedical engineers at Duke University have successfully conducted experiments to treat damage caused by heart attacks in non-human primates using gene therapy for the first time. More than 800,000 Americans suffer a heart attack every year. Even

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New approach may relieve arthritic knees without drugs or surgery

August 29, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / arthritic knees

August 27th, 2025Posted by Evan Lerner – U. Utah (Credit: Getty Images) Share this Article Facebook Twitter Reddit Email You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Tags arthritis knees University University of Utah A new study reveals a potential way to relieve arthritic knees without drugs or surgery. Nearly a quarter

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New blood test for ALS detects early signs years before symptoms appear

August 29, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / ALS

The blood test, with more than 98% accuracy, opens new avenues for early diagnosis, improved patient care and potential treatment of the neurodegenerative disease Peer-Reviewed Publication Johns Hopkins Medicine By 2040, experts estimate that nearly 400,000 people worldwide will be living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. This degenerative nervous system disease

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Novel therapy for pet cats with head and neck cancers could help humans, too

August 29, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / head and neck cancer

Peer-Reviewed Publication Cell Press image: Jak, a research partifipant, in April 2023, about six months after completion of the clinical trial. view moreCredit: Tina Thomas Researchers have reported results from the first-ever clinical trial of a new class of targeted therapy in pet cats with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)—a cancer which is notoriously

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Inflammation may explain why women with no standard modifiable risk factors have heart attacks and strokes

August 29, 2025 / Research update / InnovateMed Author / heart attack, inflammation, Stroke

by Mass General Brigham edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cardiologists have long known that up to half of all heart attacks and strokes occur among apparently healthy individuals who do not smoke and do not have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, the “standard modifiable risk factors” which doctors often

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