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Posts by Boston University School of Medicine

Adequate levels of vitamin D reduce COVID-19 complications and death

Boston University School of Medicine | 09-25-2020

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with normal blood levels of vitamin D had significantly decreased risk of adverse clinical outcomes and death. …

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Remdesivir can save more lives where ICUs are overwhelmed by COVID-19

Boston University School of Medicine | 07-07-2020

Study outlines how remdesivir could save lives in countries with less hospital capacity, such as South Africa, where COVID-19 is beginning to overwhelm intensive care units …

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Pneumonia recovery reprograms immune cells of the lung

Boston University School of Medicine | 01-28-2020

Researchers have shown that after lungs recover from infection, alveolar macrophages display long-term modifications that are associated with enhanced protection …

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New evidence that optimists live longer

Boston University School of Medicine | 08-26-2019

New research suggests that individuals with greater optimism are more likely to live longer and achieve exceptional longevity. …

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Rare gene mutations may prevent heart disease

Boston University School of Medicine | 05-13-2019

Targeting the apolipoprotein B (APOB) gene has not been tested in clinical trials for cardiovascular outcomes because of risk of fatty liver disease, but naturally-occurring mutation suggests it may be effective. …

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Using precision medicine, researchers discover cause and treatment for immunological lung disease

Boston University School of Medicine | 03-07-2019

Researchers have identified that dysfunction of a specific immune cell, called B cells, underlies lung disease that affects patients with the rare immunological disorder …

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Link found between chronic inflammation and risk for Alzheimer’s disease

Boston University School of Medicine | 10-19-2018

While it is widely shown that possessing the ApoE4 gene is the major genetic risk factor of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), not all ApoE4 carriers develop AD. For the first time, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine …

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Smoking, alcohol consumption increase lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation

Boston University School of Medicine | 04-30-2018

Lifetime risk is a useful method to quantify risk of atrial fibrillation over a person’s lifetime. However, data are scarce with respect to the lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation in the presence of one or multiple risk factors …

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Protein responsible for Leukemia’s aggressiveness identified

Boston University School of Medicine | 04-27-2018

Researchers have identified a protein critical for the aggressiveness of T-cell leukemia, a subtype of leukemia that afflicts children and adults. …

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Researchers create novel compound targeting melanoma cells

Boston University School of Medicine | 01-04-2018

An international team of researchers has developed a novel compound that successfully inhibits growth of melanoma cells by targeting specific epigenetic modifying proteins in these cells. …

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