Dads who weren’t in the best of health were more likely to have preterm and low birth weight infants who spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

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When Gregory Poore was a freshman in college, his otherwise healthy grandmother was shocked to learn that she had late-stage pancreatic cancer. The condition was diagnosed in late December. She died in January.
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Every year, 15 million babies are born too early, with 1 million never making it to their next birthday. And in low-resource settings, the outlook is even more dire. Half of babies born at 32 weeks or earlier will die; whereas in high-resource settings, almost all of these babies survive.
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Tumors have figured out various ways to prevent the immune system from attacking them. Medicine, for its part, has fought back with cancer immunotherapies. The major approach uses checkpoint inhibitors, drugs that help the immune system recognize cancer cells as foreign. Another method, CAR T-cell therapy, directly engineers peoples’ T cells to efficiently recognize cancer cells and kill them.
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A new report reveals that more people are dying sooner than previously expected across many high-income countries, including the UK.
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The short-chain fatty acid propionic acid influences the intestine-mediated immune regulation in people with multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Leukemia stem cells are considered to be the starting point of leukemia; their elimination is a basic prerequisite for a successful long-term therapy. Scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital, the Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine at the German Cancer Research Center, the German Cancer Research Center and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have now obtained research funding of €2.45 million from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the junior research alliance LeukoSyStem.
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In patients with epilepsy, normal neurological activity becomes disrupted, causing debilitating seizures.
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New study from Eleanor Coffey’s lab at Turku Bioscience Centre in Finland identifies that the JNK protein triggers nerve cells to withdraw their synapses when stressed.
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People with an understanding of basic finances are likely to be aware of existing legal and social services for people with dementia, according to a study of Japan’s aging population.
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