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New understanding of mysterious ‘hereditary swelling’

For the first time ever, biomedical researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, report cellular defects that lead to a rare disease, hereditary angioedema (HAE), in which patients experience recurrent episodes of swelling requiring immediate treatment. This new understanding is an important step toward gene therapy for patients. Symptoms include an upper arm swelling to twice its […]

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Health Tip: Understanding Auditory Processing Disorder

— Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a hearing problem that affects about 5 percent of school-aged children, the Nemours Foundation says. When a person has APD, the brain and ears do not work well together to process what is heard. The person typically doesn’t recognize slight differences between sounds in words, even when the sounds […]

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Call for research to address significant gaps in understanding Parkinson’s disease

An analysis published in Drug Discovery Today reveals the gap between animal models of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and our understanding of the neurodegenerative processes underlying the disease, and calls for the implementation of modern, human biology-based technologies to better understand pathological processes and improve treatment outcome. While current approaches to drug discovery for PD have […]

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Health Tip: Understanding Vasectomy

— A vasectomy is a method of birth control that involves minor surgery to prevent sperm from reaching semen. More than 500,000 men in the United States have the procedure each year, the Urology Care Foundation says. The procedure can be done in a urologist’s office, a hospital or a surgery center. Most men recover […]

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Understanding drug resistance in ovarian cancer

Work just published in Cancer Research by Drs. Hugo Wurtele and Elliot Drobetsky (Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center- CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and Université de Montréal) sheds new light on the origins of chemotherapy drug resistance in ovarian cancer. This discovery, made in collaboration with researchers at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montreal (CHUM), Université Laval […]