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HMN 2024 – Scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB. Credit: NIAID Experts are working on novel immune-enhancing therapies called host-directed therapies to use the body’s own immune system to target tuberculosis, with hopes that they could tackle even the drug-resistant forms of the disease. In a presentation at this year’s ESCMID Read More

HMN 2024 – Credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels Personalized “cocktails” of antibiotics, probiotics and prebiotics hold great promise in the treatment of a common form of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), according to research presented at the ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27–30 April). Post-infection IBS (PI-IBS) is a form of irritable bowel Read More

HMN 2024 – The current strategy used in Europe to mitigate malaria transfusion risk is efficient with just 10 reported cases over the 20 past years. However, current serological tests used to identify “at risk” donors are not sensitive enough to completely eliminate the risk. In a presentation to be given at this year’s ESCMID Read More

HMN 2024 – Credit: National Cancer Centre Singapore A team of clinician-scientists have conducted the largest study done to date of BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BReast CAncer Gene 1 and 2) carriers in an Asian population and refined breast and ovarian cancer risk estimates for this population. The findings, published in The Lancet Regional Health—Western Pacific, Read More

HMN 2024 – Psychologist Hilmar Zech found that overweight people are actually more attracted to food pictures after eating than before. He did so using an old research method that he revamped for use on smartphones. Zech will defend his Ph.D. on 30 April. Addiction, phobia, and intuitive behavior: psychologists have discovered much about them Read More

HMN 2024 – Doctors and clinicians must exercise extreme caution when selecting patients to prescribe gabapentinoids to, Keele researchers have said, after finding a link between gabapentinoid prescriptions and a higher risk of worse outcomes for patients. Gabapentinoids such as gabapentin and pregabalin are anticonvulsant drugs that are approved in the United Kingdom and EU Read More

HMN 2024 – Public health strategies must begin at pre-conception and early childhood to attain optimum lung function for the world’s Indigenous Peoples who bear a higher burden of chronic respiratory disease, say an international research team in a review published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Led by childhood respiratory disease expert QUT Professor Anne Chang, Read More