Does Pandemic Preparedness Depend on Confronting the Chronic Disease Crisis?
In mid-November, the leadership of the U.S. National Institutes of Health argued that the best pandemic-preparedness playbook prioritizes making Americans healthier and...
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WHO backs wider use of weight-loss medicines, calling obesity a chronic disease
The guidance focuses on GLP-1 therapies – medicines such as liraglutide, semaglutide and tirzepatide – and offers conditional recommendations on...
Personalized chronic kidney disease management on the horizon, as new biomarker research spurs hope
Credit: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2025). DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000767 Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects millions worldwide and is...
New gene therapy research offers hope for people with chronic kidney disease
Hiroyuki Nakai, M.D., Ph.D., works with his team in his Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics lab in the OHSU...
New gene therapy research offers hope for people with chronic kidney disease
Hiroyuki Nakai, M.D., Ph.D., works with his team in his Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics lab in the OHSU...
Gene therapy research offers hope for people with chronic kidney disease
A mechanistic model of AAV9 and AAV-KP1-mediated renal transduction. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54475-9 Researchers are making strides in...
Gene therapy opens new possibilities for treating chronic pain
Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford, along with colleagues at Cambridge University and...
