Miscarriage affects an estimated 15% of pregnancies, but in about half of cases the cause is unclear. At Yale, reproductive immunologist Vikki Abrahams and reproductive biologist Mancy Tong are interested in shining a light ...
May 27, 2022
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Each year, around two of every 100,000 American adults receive a new diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome, or APS, an autoimmune disease known to cause inflammation and recurring, potentially fatal, blood clots. The number ...
Mar 22, 2022
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The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) recently released new clinical guidelines for venous thromboembolism (VTE) management, "Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease: Second Update of the CHEST Guideline and Expert ...
Aug 4, 2021
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Researchers at Michigan Medicine have discovered yet another functional autoantibody in COVID-19 patients that contributes to the disease's development and the "firestorm" of blood clots and inflammation it induces.
Jul 19, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Germany and the U.S. have found a cell-surface target for autoantibodies targeting phospholipids (aPL) that contribute to antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). In ...
Naturopathic medicine, or herbal medicine, is all the rage, especially among young people. But how much of this is supported by science?
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A research group centered around Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine's Professor Yamada Hideto and Associate Professor Tanimura Kenji (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology), and Professor Arase Hisashi et al. of ...
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What causes the immune system, designed to protect us, to turn on the body and attack healthy cells? Common bacteria that reside in the human gut may be partly to blame, say Yale researchers, who studied the origins of a ...
Jun 19, 2019
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General practitioners and physicians are being urged to keep a careful eye on the potentially deadly condition of deep vein thrombosis because the signs and symptoms of DVT are non-specific and often difficult to diagnose, ...
Jun 17, 2019
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Levels of antiphospholipid antibodies, which are associated with rheumatic diseases, are also elevated in myocardial infarction without any autoimmune co-morbidity, a study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in ...
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