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Concerns About the Use of Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol as a Lipid Predictor

Non-high-density lipoprotein (non-HDL) cholesterol is the sum of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL)…

Occupational Allergy

An estimated 11 million workers in the USA are potentially exposed to agents that can become a cause of allergic diseases such as occupational asthma and…

Extension of 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) Classification into a New Set of Clinical, Laboratory, Molecular, and Pathological Criteria for the Diagnosis of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: From Dameshek to Vainchenker, Green, and Kralovics

Improved Clinical, Laboratory, Molecular, and Pathological (CLMP) 2017 criteria for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) define the JAK2V617F trilinear…

The ‘Nucleolus’ Hypothesis of Autoimmune Diseases

Many autoimmune diseases, such as lupus and Sjögren’s syndrome, have a female bias and adult onset. One possible explanation for this bias is disruption…

Pain During Illusory Own Arm Movement: A Study in Immersive Virtual Reality

Previous studies have demonstrated that the vision of one’s own body, or of external embodied limbs, can lead to pain relieving outcomes. Analgesic…

Paradigm Shift for Thrombolysis for Patients with Acute Ischaemic Stroke, from Extension of the Time Window to the Rapid Recanalisation After Symptom Onset

Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) and intra-arterial thrombolysis (IAT) are useful therapeutic tools to improve functional outcomes after recanalisation of…

Challenge 273 – Could you do it?

So today sees the launch of Challenge 273. This consists of 3 separate challenges over the next 12 months starting today, the 28th May 2017 and finishing…

Testosterone Protects Against Allergic Asthma

A CLUE to understanding sex differences in the development of allergic asthma has been discovered by researchers and is hoped to point to new therapeutic…

No Association Between Low Vitamin D and Increased Asthma Risk

A NEW study focussing on the analysis of genetic data was recently conducted to determine whether previous observational studies correlating low levels…

Novel Cell Type Discovered in the Brain of Zebrafish

The discovery of a type of cell in zebrafish that clears waste away from the brain has recently been reported in a study. FInd out more