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Strasbourg, France – A new study presented at the European Psychiatric Association Congress 2024 reveals a significant association between prenatal cannabis use disorder (CUD) and an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and intellectual disability (ID). Cannabis remains by...
Among patients with refractory large B cell lymphoma (LBCL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy appears to yield superior long-term clinical outcomes to those seen with standard salvage therapy regimens, according to an analysis published in Blood Advances. Treatments for LBCL, the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtype, have improved over the...
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has demonstrated effectiveness and safety in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM), according to a meta-analysis published in the International Journal of Medical Sciences. RRMM treatments have come a long way and have drastically improved overall survival, but the disease remains incurable. CAR-T therapy has led to...
MADISON — A fundamental question about how sugar units are strung together into long carbohydrate chains has also pinpointed a promising way to target new medicines against tuberculosis. Working with components of the tuberculosis bacterium, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison identified an unusual process by which the pathogen builds...
DURHAM, N.C. — Restricting carbohydrates, regardless of weight loss, appears to slow the growth of prostate tumors, according to an animal study being published this week by researchers in the Duke Prostate Center. “Previous work here and elsewhere has shown that a diet light in carbohydrates could slow tumor growth,...