Chris Anderson

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All-Cause Mortality Risk 66% Higher in People with Both Hypertension and T2D

1 week ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

New research from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health shows that adults in the U.S. with both hypertension and type 2 diabetes (T2D) face a much higher risk or all-cause mortality and as a three times higher cardiovascular risk of mortality than those people with only one, or neither of these conditions.
CAR-T Cells That Secrete CD19 Antibodies Effective Against B-ALL

1 week ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

Researchers at Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute and Hospital 12 de Octubre in Spain have tested a new CAR-T immunotherapy that can effectively maintain its treatment efficacy longer in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) versus current therapies. This new approach, which targeted the CD19 protein, is the latest advance in improving therapeutic response for patients who have relapsed or did do not respond to current standard treatments.
HIV Drug Outperforms Standard Eye Injection for Diabetic Macular Edema

1 week ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

The oral drug lamivudine, originally approved for HIV treatment, was shown to significantly improve visual acuity in patients with center-involved diabetic macular edema (CI-DME), a leading cause of vision loss in adults with diabetes. The finding, published in the Cell journal Med, could offer a less invasive alternative approach to current therapies that involve intravitreal injections of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agents.
Metagenomic NGS Triples Pathogen Detection in Lung Infections Over Traditional Tests

1 week ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

A new retrospective study by researchers at the Department of Clinical Laboratory at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, China has shown that the high-throughput sequencing method called metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) can detect more than three times as many pathogens in pulmonary infections as conventional microbiological tests (CMTs).
Multi-Omic Study Reveals Non-Amyloid Drug Targets in Alzheimer’s Disease

2 weeks ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

An integration of large-scale datasets across species and methods by a team of researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School has identified potential new drug targets for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that look to address other aspects of the disease beyond the most prevalent focus on amyloid plaques.
Prostate Cancer Slowed by Current Diabetes Medication

2 weeks ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

New research, led by investigators at Medical University Vienna, has shown that a medication long used to manage type 2 diabetes has potential to treat prostate cancer. Results of the international effort, published in iScience, found that drugs targeting a protein known as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) may reduce the likelihood of prostate cancer recurrence in patients with type 2 diabetes. “This is a significant discovery.
Aggressive Medulloblastoma Subtype May Be Treated with Copper-based Drug

2 weeks ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

A University of Michigan-led study has revealed a previously unknown vulnerability in Group-3 medulloblastoma, an aggressive and incurable form of this childhood brain cancer. The research, published in Cancer Cell, identifies the metabolic enzyme dihydrolipoyl transacetylase (DLAT) as a key player in a newly discovered form of cell death dubbed cuproptosis.
Second Cardiac Event Risk Lowered by Spending Less Time Sitting

2 weeks ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center say that patients recovering from heart attacks or chest pain can significantly reduce their risk of another cardiac event simply by spending less time sitting.
Down Syndrome Detection Doubled with NIPT over STSS

2 weeks ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

A new study by researchers in China has found that non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) detects twice as many cases of Down syndrome (DS) as second-trimester serum screening (STSS), while also being more cost-effectiveness.
Cardiac MRI Detects Hidden Damage in Lamin Heart Disease

3 weeks ago | insideprecisionmedicine.com | Chris Anderson

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could significantly enhance the detection and clinical management of lamin heart disease (LHD), a rare but potentially fatal genetic condition, according to a study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging by researchers at University College London (UCL). “Genetics alone cannot predict how this disease will progress,” said senior author Gaby Captur, MD, a cardiologist at UCL and the Royal Free Hospital.