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www.newswise.com - Medical news: Scientists from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and Boston Children’s Hospital have discovered that probiotic consumption may lead to blood infections. Administering probiotics is a common protocol...

www.newswise.com - The University of Illinois at Chicago celebrates the opening of three health care simulation centers. The facilities, which are run individually by the university’s College of Medicine, College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy.

www.newswise.com -   Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a way to fluorescently tag cells infected with chikungunya virus. The technique opens up new avenues to study how the virus persists in the body and...

www.newswise.com - Newswise medicine news section displays top medical news, health news and new medical embargo press releases with experts, features, and sources for journalists.

www.newswise.com -   Diane and Phil Hannah of New Milford, Connecticut faced a series of health problems — including Phil’s skin cancer diagnosis — that made it difficult for them to keep up with everyday tasks, like shopping for...

www.newswise.com -   Approximately 50% of patients who undergo immunotherapy and receive targeted cancer medications experience a skin-related reaction to the medication. This can result in changes to their nails or to the skin on their hands and feet,...

www.newswise.com -   Making sure you have the right diagnosis is critical for successful treatment,” says board-certified dermatologist Paradi Mirmirani, MD, FAAD. “However, to an untrained provider, this can be tricky, as hair loss can have...

www.newswise.com -   A protein called UV-DDB—which stands for ultraviolet-damaged DNA-binding—is useful beyond safeguarding against the sun. This new evidence points to UV-DDB being a scout for general DNA damage and an overseer of the...

www.newswise.com - Using an ultra-sensitive and high-throughput isolation technology, UCLA researchers were able to characterize and identify the neoantigens driving the antitumor responses in a patient treated with anti-PD-1 blockade and isolate the T cell receptors...

www.newswise.com -   Death rates from sepsis fell faster in New York than expected – and faster than in peer states – following the introduction of the nation’s first state-mandated sepsis regulation.