DISEASES
News Articles and Information by Key Disease Groups
- Skin
- June 29, 2021 – Cell-Based Immunotherapy Shows Promise Against Melanoma – WUSTL News
- Bone
- Brain
- March 24, 2021 – Zika Virus Helps Destroy Deadly Brain Cancer in Mice – WUSTL News
- Breast
- December 6, 2021 – Antipsychotic Drugs May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer – WUSTL News
- Prostate
- Pancreatic
- July 9, 2021 – The Future of Pancreatic Cancer Treatment: It’s Personal – KU Cancer Center
- Bladder
- Colorectal
- December 14, 2021 – Improving Drug Options for Colorectal Cancer Patients – Salk
- Lymphoma
- Leukemia
- Lung
- August 12, 2021 – New Immunotherapy Approach Wiped Out Tumors in Two Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer, Study Reports – STAT
- June 4, 2021 – Newly Approved Drug Effective Against Lung Cancer Caused by Genetic Mutation – WUSTL News
- Gynecological
- January 12, 2022 – New Treatment Target ID’d for Radiation-Resistant Cervical Cancer – WUSTL News
- Other
- November 10, 2021 – New Technique May Lead to Safer Stem Cell Transplants – WUSTL
- November 5, 2021 – Cancer Moonshot Grant Funds Research Into Reducing Health Disparities – WUSTL
- November 3, 2021 – Turning CAR-T Tech Against Solid Tumors by Targeting Protein Fragments in Cancer Cells – Rierce Biotech
- October 29, 2021 – Uncovering How Injury to the Pancreas Impacts Cancer Formation – Salk News
- October 18, 2021 – African American Breast Cancer Patients Less Likely to Receive Genetic Counseling, Testing – WUSTL
- October 12, 2021 – Meet a SLU Researcher: Edwin Antony, Ph.D. – SLU news
- August 3, 2021 – Acoustically Triggered Nanorobotics Hold Promise for Cancer Treatment – ASME
- July 8, 2021 – Death Rates are Declining for Many Common Cancers in the U.S., Report Finds – Stat News
- July 8, 2021 – New Cancer Treatments May be on the Horizon — Thanks to mRNA Vaccines – National Geographic
- July 6, 2021 – Research Shows How T-cells Are Blocked from Fighting Cancer – Del Mar Times
- April 5, 2021 – Understanding How Cancer Can Relapse – MU News
- March 29, 2021 – Bristol Myers Squibb Wins First CAR-T Therapy Approval in Multiple Myeloma – MedCity News
- March 10, 2021 – Promising Role for Whole Genome Sequencing in Guiding Blood Cancer Treatment – WUSTL News
- February 22, 2021 – Developing a Targeted Delivery System to Treat Cancer – MU News
- February 17, 2021 – Salk Team Reveals Never-Before-Seen Antibody Binding, Informing Both Liver Cancer and Antibody Design – Salk News
- Autism
- ALS
- August 26, 2021 – Research Reveals How Subtle Changes in a microRNA May Lead to ALS – Salk News
- June 18, 2021 – CIRM Board Approves New Clinical Trial for ALS – CIRM
- Alzheimer’s/Dementia
- December 20, 2021 – New Alzheimer’s Prevention Trial in Young People – WUSTL News
- November 8, 2021 – International Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial to Test Two Drugs in Combination – WUSTL
- November 1, 2021 – Scientists Reveal How Alzheimer’s Progresses in the Brain – Medical News Today
- September 16, 2021 – Time Until Dementia Symptoms Appear Can Be Estimated Via Brain Scan – WUSTL
- July 8, 2021 – New Alzheimer’s Treatment Targets Identified – WUSTL News
- June 8, 2021 – Landmark Alzheimer’s Drug Approval Confounds Research Community – Nature
- May 11, 2021 – Alzheimer’s Treatment Proves Effective at Preventing Inflammation, Failure of Orthopedic Implants – Study Finds
- April 28, 2021 – Draining Brain’s Debris Enhances Alzheimer’s Therapies in Mice – WUSTL
- March 15, 2021 – International Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial to Test Tau Drugs – WUSTL News
- Huntington’s Disease
- November 23, 2021 – Op-Ed: Huntington’s Key Protein mhTT — Best Way for CRISPR to Prove What It Can Do? – Digital Journal
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Muscular Sclerosis
- June 11, 2021 – Stem Cell Transplant Trial Enrolls First Patient in Minnesota – Multiple Sclerosis News Today
- Mental Health
- November 9, 2021 – Antidepressant May Prevent Severe COVID-19, Follow-up Study Indicates – WUSTL
- October 18, 2021 – Emotional Aspects of Chronic Pain Isolated in Brain Circuitry – WUSTL
- June 9, 2021 – Laughing Gas Relieves Symptoms in People with Treatment-Resistant Depression – WUSTL News
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Spinal Cord Injury
- November 13, 2021 – In an Astonishing Feat, a New Drug Reversed Paralysis in Mice With Spinal Cord Injury – Science Alert
- Stroke
- April 27, 2021 – Stroke-Recovery Device Using Brain-Computer Interface Receives FDA Market Authorization – WUSTL
- Other
- January 11, 2022 – With $5.3 Million from NIH, DOD, Saint Louis University and University of Maryland Pain Researchers Set Their Sights on Migraine Relief – SLU News
- January 10, 2022 – Personalizing Treatment for Severe Limb Injuries – Show Me Missouri News
- December 2, 2021 – Mapping Traumatic Brain Injury Patterns with Neuroimaging – Missouri State News
- November 30, 2021 – Which Side Is Which? How the Brain Perceives Borders – Salk
- October 6, 2021 – Salk Teams Advance Efforts to Treat, Prevent and Cure Brain Disorders, Via NIH Brain Atlas – Salk News
- Congenital Heart Disease
- October 21, 2021 – Finding Magic in Blood Vessel Flow – MSU News
- Cardiovascular Disease
- January 10, 2022 – First Transplant of a Genetically Altered Pig Heart into a Person Sparks Ethics Questions – STAT
- July 7, 2021 – Researchers Receive More than $6 Million to Study Diabetes-Related Cardiovascular Disease – Joplin Globe
- June 13, 2021 – Microspheres Coated in Stem Cells Could Help Mend Broken Hearts – New Atlas
- Heart Attack
- Stroke
- Arthritis
- October 9, 2021 – Is A Vaccine for Rheumatoid Arthritis Possible? – Medical News Today
- September 1, 2021 – Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated With Implanted Cells That Release Drug – WUSTL
- August 19, 2021 – Antibodies Block Specific Viruses That Cause Arthritis, Brain Infections – WUSTL
- Lupus
- HIV
- September 16, 2021 – FDA Approves First Human Trial for Potential CRISPR-Led HIV Cure – Biospace
- Type 1 Diabetes
- November 22, 2021 – Type 1 Diabetes: Study Uncovers New Avenue Toward Treatment – Medical News Today
- November 9, 2021 – Steroid-Sparing Regimens Lower Risk of Diabetes Mellitus After Transplant in Some Adults – Healio
- July 7, 2021 – Researchers Receive More than $6 Million to Study Diabetes-Related Cardiovascular Disease – Joplin Globe
- May 24, 2021 – In Lab, SLU Researchers Find Benefits for Diabetes, Fatty Liver Disease When Combining Two Anti-Diabetes Drugs – SLU News
- March 2, 2021 – Major NIH Study Seeks to Understand Unusual Forms of Diabetes – Wash U News
- Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
- Acute Flaccid Myelitis
- Genetics
- May 11, 2021 – Experimental Gene Therapy Cures Children Born Without an Immune System in Clinical Trials – SciTechDaily
- January 5, 2021 – Everything’s up to Date in Kansas City, at Least When It Comes to Genomics – RAREX
- Corona Virus – COVID-19
- December 26, 2022 – Coronavirus Can Persist for Months After Traversing Body – Bloomberg
- December 23, 2021 – What Makes an mRNA Vaccine So Effective Against Severe COVID-19? – WUSTL News
- October 11, 2021 – Antiviral Compound Blocks SARS-CoV-2 From Entering Cells – WUSTL
- October 7, 2021 – Nanotechnology Offers Alternative Ways to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic with Antivirals – Nature
- July 7, 2021 – COVID and the Brain: Researchers Zero in on How Damage Occurs – Nature
- June 7, 2021 – More Insight on Which Kids Are Most at Risk for Severe COVID-19 – MedPage
- March 16, 2021 – CRISPR-Based Anti-Viral Therapy Could One Day Foil the Flu—and COVID-19 – NIH Director’s Blog
- January 25, 2021 – As Virus Grows Stealthier, Vaccine Makers Reconsider Battle Plans – NY Times
- January 20, 2021 – Studies Suggest Vaccinated People Protected From New Covid-19 Variants – CNN
- January 5, 2021 – Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Implanted Into COVID Patients Improve Survival Chances, Study Suggests – Independent
- Respiratory
- October 27, 2021 – Turning Resources into Research. Research Team Uses Anesthesiology Equipment to Study Effects of Face Masks – Missouri State
- October 12, 2021 – Common Respiratory Virus Manipulates Immune Genes to Protect Itself – WUSTL
- August 24, 2021 – Why Do Short-lived Lung infections Lead to Long-lasting Lung Damage? – WUSTL
- Tick Borne
- May 13, 2021 – Ticking Upward: MU Researcher Studies Rise of Tick-Borne Diseases in Midwest – ShowMe Mizzou
- Tuberculosis
- Vaccines
- Swine Fever
- October 13, 2021 – MU Lab Aids Surveillance Efforts for Deadly African Swine Fever – Showme Missouri
- Allergy
- Asthma
- May 18, 2021 – An Asthma Vaccine Effective in Mice – Mirage
- Galucoma/Macular Degeneration
- December 15, 2021 – NIH Researchers Identify Potential AMD Drugs with Stem-cell Based Research Tool – NIH
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Disorders
- June 11, 2021 – A CRISPR Treatment for Blood Diseases Shows Curative Promise in Small Study – STAT
- Crohn’s Disease
- February 5, 2021 – Scientists to Explore Whether Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Control Blood Sugar – WUSTL News
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Sickle Cell Disease
- August 25, 2021 – Sickle-Cell Disease – Nature
- March 30, 2021 – Three UC’s Join Forces to Launch CRISPR Clinical Trial Targeting Sickle Cell Disease – CIRM
- Aging
- September 13, 2021 – A Fountain of Youth for Ageing Stem Cells in Bone Marrow – Medical Xpress
- March 3, 2021 – Advanced Practice Registered Nurses Help Reduce Hospitalizations from Nursing Home Residents – MU News
- Dental
- May 27, 2021 – Salivary Protein Database Could Benefit Precision Medicine – Health IT Analytics
- Genectics
- May 10, 2021 – Genetic Cause of Hearing Loss Discovered, May Lead to Cure for Deafness – Study Finds
- March 24, 2021 – Scientists Find Genetic Link to Clogged Arteries – WUSTL News
- Pregnancy
- September 21, 2021 – Clinical Trial Testing Automatic Oxygen Control Device for Premature Infants – ShowMe Missouri
- May 12, 2021 – Breakthrough Could Lead to Early Detection of Pregnancy Complications – ShowMe News
- Radio Pharmaceuticals
- Imaging
- Gene Editing
- September 29, 2021 – A Gene-Editing Experiment Let These Patients With Vision Loss See Color Again – NPR
- September 10, 2021 – Trove of CRISPR-like Gene-cutting Enzymes Found in Microbes – Nature
- May 1, 2021 – Harvard Scientists Create Gene-Editing Tool That Could Rival CRISPR – Yahoo Finance
- Surgery
- September 9, 2021 – A Joint ‘Replacement’ Without Surgery? It’s on the Horizon – WSJ
- Fetal Tissue
- Bio Medicine
- May 11, 2021 – Lighting Up Biology from Within – ShowMe Mizzou
- Stem Cells
- February 14, 2021 – Stem Cell Breakthrough Brings Baldness Cure One Step Closer – New Atlas
- February 1, 2021 – Potential for Stem Cells to Repair Myelin Focus of University Toronto Team – MS News Today
- Diversity
- September 15, 2021 – Berkley-Patton Brings Health Care and Healthy Activity to Underserved Populations – KCBJ
- June 29, 2021 – NextGen Offers New Possibilities for MU Researchers Addressing Health Disparities – ShowMe Mizzou
- February 16, 2021 – Why Poor Diversity in Medical Research Threatens Health Equity – Patient Engagement Hit
- Other
- December 2021 – MU Research Reactor Still Breaking New Ground in Fifth Decade of Operation – MU Vet News
- November 23, 2021 – Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers Kill Bacterial Superbugs, Spores – WUSTL News
- November 9, 2021 – Graduate School of the Stowers Institute Receives Accreditation – Stowers Institute
- October 19, 2021 – 8 ways Mizzou’s Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Building Will Advance Medical Research – Columbia Tribune
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