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Salmonella typhimurium versus asthma
Scientists from Germany presented an explanation for impact of previous Salmonella typhimurium infection on reduced risk of asthma incidence. Results are considered as very promising.Respiratory system...
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Is this cyst malignant? – less and less secrets, more and more certainty
Pancreatic cysts are very frequent radiological findings. It is said that such changes may be found by MR examination in every fifth person. The most frequent type of cysts are postinflammatory ones....
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New look at adipose tissue
White adipose tissue has been considered for a long time only to be the place where energy is stored mainly in the form of triglycerides. In the nineties, this view has changed considerably because of...
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The next step in the fight against paracetamol overdose
The liver, which is a part of the gastrointestinal tract is the largest organ of the human body. Its function does not end at helping the digestion of food. It plays a key role in the homeostasis of...
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Beneficial parasites a new perspective for treating autoimmune diseases
There is a hope that researchers found a new weapon in the fighting autoimmune diseases. According to an article published in FASEB Journal some parasitic peptides influence immune system leading to...
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Botox – an effective remedy for stomach cancer?
Botox, which is a botulinum toxin, has been inextricably connected with medicine for many years. It was first used in ophthalmology and neurology in early 1920s. Currently, it became an integral part...
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Short sleep and breathing disorders are indeendant risk factors for...
Obesity among children has become a tremendous problem all over the world. It involves about 43 million children while in Europe alone it affects 5 million and 20 million of citizens under the age of...
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Insulin as a drug for acute pancreatitis?
Acute pancreatitis occurs when acinar cells, which contain pancreatic enzymes, are damaged. This resuts in self-digestion of the organ and tissues which surround it. Dr Jason Bruce and scientists from...
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Helicobacter pylori infection and the prevalence of multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (Multiple sclerosis – MS) is a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system. The prevalence of MS varies from 2 to 150 patients per 100 000 inhabitants,...
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Orthorexia – when healthy life becomes harmful
Nowadays, there is an increase in popularity of a healthy lifestyle including healthy nutrition. It seems that this is a good tendency, however, it turns out that even that way of life can have...
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Capabilities of 3D printer as a new chance for children suffering from...
Owing to 3D printer abilities 3 boys suffering from tracheobronchomalacia were saved. It is a rare disease which affects about 1 in 2,200 new born babies. The disease is characterized by...
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LDL and response to HCV treatment – a new known biomarker
The results of the latest research of the scientists from Medizinische Hochschule in Hannover have been published in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the journal of American...
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Obesity in young adults as a significant risk factor of hepatocellular carcinoma
Epidemic of global obesity causes many problems to contemporary medicine. One of them is increased risk of cancers, especially relationship between obesity and HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma). A team of...
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Future in management of food allergies – recent achievements
Food allergies are very common in children (6-8%) and sometimes they can even be life-threatening. Also, the quality of life of young patients and their families is severely affected. Currently,...
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Stem cells and silk to be the ultimate relief for patients suffering from...
The work of American scientists that was described in the Tissue Engineering Part A issue gives a new hope for millions of patients suffering from the nagging problem of xerostomia. This team of...
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Can air pollution contribute to serious liver diseases?
Scientists from Wayne State University School of Medicine’s Centre for Molecular Medicine and Genetics have proven on a mice model that inhalation of particles of pollution that are smaller than 2.5...
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Long-chain fatty acids may cause exacerbation of multiple sclerosis
Scientists from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany conducted a research which showed that intestinal flora, as well as the type of fatty acids in...
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Enteropathy induced with NSAIDs and PPIs – an important and underestimated...
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are one of the most frequently used drugs worldwide. They are used not only for a short, but also for a longer periods of time and they are available...
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Acute appendicitis – antibiotic therapy or surgery?
A commonly known treatment method of acute appendicitis is an appendectomy. It is more frequently performed in laparoscopic way, what decreases the risk of wound infection, is less painful, shortens...
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Hospital in California first to prescribe medications with digital sensors
Proteus Digital Health, Redwood City – based company, producing digital sensors, which can help to control compliance in patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes or hypertension, announced that...
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