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A recent study shows that participants who see sick-looking faces in virtual reality exhibit changes in brain activity related to personal space monitoring and threat detection, as well as an increase in the activity of certain immune cells in the blood.
SetPoint System, a neuroimmune modulation device, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat adults with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis who have had an inadequate response, loss of response or intolerance to one or more biological or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to Nektar Therapeutics’ rezpegaldesleukin to treat alopecia areata (AA) in adult and paediatric patients aged 12 years and older who weigh at least 40 kilograms and are living with severe-to-very severe cases of the autoimmune disease.
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- By Rachel Maier, MS
While traditional vaccines teach the immune system to fight off foreign invaders, inverse vaccines teach the immune system to ignore its own cells — and may completely reverse autoimmune disease.
- By Keith Berman, MPH, MBA
Shortages and recent spikes in egg prices have boosted public awareness that a “bird flu” is devastating domestic poultry flocks across the country. Since its arrival in the U.S. in January 2022, more than 166 million farmed poultry animals have been sacrificed in an attempt to control the spread of H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza A (HPAI) featuring H5 hemagglutinin and N1 neuraminidase surface proteins (H5N1).
- By Ronale Tucker Rhodes, MS
The dire projection of physician shortages in the U.S. could cause major problems for both patients and healthcare facilities. What's being done to fix it?
- By Amy Scanlin, MS
The incidence and prevalence of STIs remain high, and the serious health consequences of contracting one make prevention a national imperative.
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