FDA supports new medication for therapy of adults with chronic kidney infection Kumar Jeetendra | May 1, 2021 Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted Farxiga (dapagliflozin) oral tablets to decrease the risk of kidney function decline, kidney failure, cardiovascular death and hospitalization for heart failure in adults with chronic kidney disease who are at risk of disease progression. Chronic kidney disease occurs when the kidneys are damaged and can’t filter blood …
Antiviral T cells protected, viable as off-the-shelf treatment for painful complication stem cells Kumar Jeetendra | May 2, 2021 Infusion of T cells targeting BKV resulted in rapid responses, with 67.7% of patients seeing a complete or partial improvement in symptoms after 14 days. This increased to 81.6% of patients after 28 days post-infusion. No cases of grade 3 or grade 4 graft versus host disease (GVHD) or other infusion-related toxicities occurred. Addressing a …
Immunotherapy treatments for nephrological autoimmune illnesses may help treat serious Coronavirus Kumar Jeetendra | June 8, 2021 Various viruses and bacteria have been known to cause autoimmune diseases where there’s such a predisposition. This phenomenon also seems to play a major part SARS-CoV-2, especially in severe courses. The body’s own immune cells are activated, with the formation of autoantibodies that attack the body’s own healthy cell structures (proteins, autoantigens); deposits of immune …
Castration of male sheep eases back DNA maturing Kumar Jeetendra | July 6, 2021 We all know that women live longer lives than men. If we told you that there were one way to prolong your life, would you listen? Researchers from University of Otago and collaborators from the United States published a study in ELife today. It showed that castration of male sheep slows down DNA’s aging and …
MRI screening and designated biopsies could diminish overdiagnoses of prostate malignant growth Kumar Jeetendra | July 10, 2021 Many countries do not have nationwide prostate-cancer screening. Current methods lead to overdiagnoses, unnecessary biopsies, and unnecessary biopsies. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, have published a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine. It shows that targeted biopsies and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), could reduce overdiagnoses by up to half. These results were …
Industrial chemical perfluorobutanoic acid less inclined to aggregate in human lungs and kidneys Kumar Jeetendra | September 25, 2021 A 2013 study by Perez et al. discovered a significant accumulation of the chemical used in industrial production, perfluorobutanoic Acid (PFBA) in the human kidneys and lungs. Researchers from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) examined the results with an even more precise method for quantification. The resultwas that only one sample had …
