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A Chronic Itch: Burrowing Beneath the Skin
Brian S. Kim, MD | Sep 8, 2023 | 9 min read
We have barely scratched the surface of itch science and what it indicates about our health.
Scientific Medicine and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Mary Mcnamara | Nov 12, 2000 | 6 min read
Illustration: A. Canamucio There has never been a better time, technologically, for our federal health agencies to launch a significant effort to prevent and control a chronic disease that has inflicted suffering on mankind for centuries. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is the current name for an illness with many names and a long history. In 1681 Thomas Sydenham, founder of modern clinical, scientific, and public health medicine, described a disease spectrum identical to it called "muscular rheu
Guts and Glory
Anna Azvolinsky | Apr 1, 2016 | 9 min read
An open mind and collaborative spirit have taken Hans Clevers on a journey from medicine to developmental biology, gastroenterology, cancer, and stem cells.
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The Ephemeral Life of the Placenta
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Dec 4, 2023 | 10+ min read
Recent advances in modeling the human placenta, the least understood organ, may inform placental disorders like preeclampsia.
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Underlying Pathways: The Key to Progress in Rheumatology?
Janssen Immunology | Nov 17, 2021 | 4 min read
Understanding immune pathways and disease mechanisms helps address the unmet needs of patients living with difficult-to-treat rheumatic diseases.
10-Year-Old Arthritis Institute Goes Beyond Aches And Pains Of Joints
Karen Young Kreeger | Mar 17, 1996 | 10 min read
And Pains Of Joints (The Scientist, Vol:10, #6, p. 13 & 18, March 18, 1996) SEEKING ADVICE: New NIAMS director Stephen Katz is consulting all sectors of the biomedical community to help set institutional priorities. "Chronic, common, costly, and crippling." That's how Stephen I. Katz, director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) since August, describes the diseases that the institute explores. NIAMS is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year
The AIDS Research Evaluators
Lynn Gambale | Jul 9, 1995 | 6 min read
Chairman: Arnold Levine, chairman, department of molecular biology, Princeton University Barry Bloom, Weinstock Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, department of microbiology and immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Rebecca Buckley, professor of pediatrics and immunology, Duke University Medical Center Charles Carpenter, chairman, Office of AIDS Research Advisory Committee; professor of medicine,Brown University School of Medicine Don
The Little Cell That Could
Megan Scudellari | Jul 1, 2012 | 7 min read
Critics point out that cell therapy has yet to top existing treatments. Biotech companies are setting out to change that—and prove that the technology can revolutionize medicine.
The Role of Mom’s Microbes During Pregnancy
Carolyn A. Thomson and Kathy D. McCoy | Aug 1, 2021 | 10+ min read
Bacteria in the gut influence the production of antibodies and themselves secrete metabolites. In a pregnant woman, these compounds may influence immune development of her fetus.
Predicting Future Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks
Ashley Yeager | Jun 1, 2018 | 10+ min read
A step-by-step study of diseases that jump species gives subtle clues about future epidemics.

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