Startling Findings: Midwest and Southeast Experience Dramatic Increase in Anal Cancer
According to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, South Carolina is experiencing one of the most significant increases in anal cancer…
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Common Acne Treatment Can Have Unintended Life-Long Effects on the Skeleton
Physicians have the best intentions of treating adolescent acne with systemic antibiotics; however, long-term use can perturb the gut microbiome, leading to altered profiles of…
A Near-Real-Time View of the Drains Inside the Human Brain
A new non-invasive technique provides a near-real-time view of the human brain’s waste-clearance vessels. A joint research team at the Medical University of South Carolina…
Nationwide Study on Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness for Ages 12 to 18 – “The Vaccine Works for Children!”
A team of researchers at the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital contributed to a nationwide study on the effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine against hospitalization…
Forget Me Not: Target Identified for Preventing and Reversing Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias
A novel tau protein conformation, cis P-tau, is a toxic early driver of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Silencing of this protein through immunotherapy ameliorates…
Is What I See, What I Imagine? Neural Overlap Discovered Between Vision and Imagination
Medical University of South Carolina researchers report in Current Biology that the brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision, but it uses…
Study Reveals E-Cigarette Users Smoke Less and Increase Quit Attempts
As e-cigarettes become more popular, fewer people are taking up smoking traditional cigarettes. But can e-cigarettes, an electronic nicotine delivery system, help people quit smoking…
Researchers Identify Mechanism That Leads to Cell Migration and Metastasis
Understanding how cancer cells are able to metastasize — migrate from the primary tumor to distant sites in the body — and developing therapies to…
