Research Spotlight: Comparing the GI Side Effects of Four Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder
Researchers found that injectable naltrexone had the fewest reported GI and liver-related side effects compared to the other drugs.
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Research Spotlight: How Microbes in the Human Gut Swap Genetic Traits
Researchers found that genetic swaps in the gut microbiome are occurring much more frequently than previously thought and detected more than 100,000 swaps that hadn’t been seen before.
Research Spotlight: Interplay Between Immune Cells and HPV Keeps Skin Healthy
Shadmehr (Shawn) Demehri, MD, PhD, of the Department of Dermatology and Center for Cancer Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the corresponding author of a paper published in Cancer Cell, “Commensal papillomavirus immunity preserves the homeostasis of highly mutated normal skin.”
Improving Liver Cancer Outcomes Through Enhanced Immunotherapy
Dan G. Duda, DMD, PhD, of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology and Department of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the corresponding author of a paper published in Cancer Immunology Research, “Combination CXCR4 and PD1 Blockade Enhances Intratumoral Dendritic Cell Activation and Immune Responses Against Hepatocellular Carcinoma.”
Research Spotlight: Understanding Rare Genetic Variants That Cause Diabetes
Alicia-Huerta, Miriam Udler and Josep M Mercader, Investigators at the Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues are lead and senior authors of a recently published paper in Nature Genetics, Rare variant analyses in 51,256 type 2 diabetes cases and 370,487 controls reveal the pathogenicity spectrum of monogenic diabetes genes
Research Spotlight: Understanding How Cells Sense and Respond to the Presence of Nutrients
Researchers work to understand how cells sense and respond to nutrients.
‘Weekend Warrior’ Physical Activity May Help Protect Against More Than 200 Diseases
The findings indicate that concentrated physical activity patterns may be just as effective for disease prevention as patterns where exercise is spread out throughout the week.
Research Spotlight: Assessing the Effectiveness of Telehealth-Based Palliative Care Services for Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer
Researchers demonstrated the equivalence of the effect of delivering early palliative care via video versus in-person visits on quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer.
Research Spotlight: The Public Health Impact of the FDA’s Request for Additional Safety Data on Cytisine for Tobacco Cessation
Cytisine, a plant-based medication, has been used to treat tobacco dependence for decades in other countries.
Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence Through Community-Centered Storytelling
Peter Masiakos, MD, director of Pediatric Trauma Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-director of the MGH Gun Violence Prevention Center and associate professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, is the lead author of a recent perspective in the NEJM, Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence
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