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Arthritis

Preventing psoriasis with vanillia extract

30 Nov 2017 • 3 comments

Small amounts of artificial vanilla extract, also known as vanillin, are in a wide range of products, from baked goods to perfumes. But vanillin's versatility doesn't stop there. In a recent mouse...

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Asthma

Testosterone could explain why asthma is more common in women than men

29 Nov 2017 • 2 comments

The puzzle of why asthma is about twice as common in women as men may have been solved, according to researchers who say it might partly be down to testosterone. While boys are about 1.5 times as...

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Fatigue: types, causes and ways to reduce

21 Nov 2017 • 7 comments

Fatigue is a common problem among adults. It can be physical or mental, both causing weakness, tiredness and can prevent people from following their usual routine. Physical fatigue: A person finds it...

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FDA approves 'trackable' pill

20 Nov 2017

US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through the body. The Abilify MyCite aripiprazole tablets - for treating schizophrenia and manic episodes - have an ingestible...

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First gene-editing in human body attempt

20 Nov 2017 • 1 comment

Gene-editing has been attempted on cells inside a patient, in a world first by doctors in California. Brian Madeux, 44 from Arizona, was given the experimental treatment to try to correct a defect in...

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Diabetes (Type 2)
Diabetes insipidus

Diabetes and insulin in the eyes of the Carenity diabetics

16 Nov 2017 • 2 comments

For the occasion of World Diabetes Day, we have asked the members of our Diabetes Community to share their opinions through a survey on this trivialised disease, which affects 422 million people in...

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Diabetes (Type 1)
Diabetes insipidus

Diabetes and insulin in the eyes of the Carenity diabetics

16 Nov 2017

For the occasion of World Diabetes Day, we have asked the members of our Diabetes Community to share their opinions through a survey on this trivialised disease, which affects 422 million people in...

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COPD

What Carenity members think about COPD

16 Nov 2017 • 2 comments

For the occasion of World COPD awareness day (November 15th), we have decided to ask the members of our COPD community for their opinion about the disease and its impact on their life. COPD is not a...

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Ankylosing spondylitis

Ankylosing spondylitis: "I'll never stop being active in spreading the word about this disease!"

16 Nov 2017

Hello Karine, thank you for agreeing to share your story with us on Carenity.Could you introduce yourself in a few words? Hi Léa, I am 41 years old and I live in a couple in the north of France, in...

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Epilepsy
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Wristband devices detect dangerous seizures in patients with epilepsy

8 Nov 2017 • 3 comments

New research published in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), indicates that wristband devices may improve the detection and characterization of seizures in...

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Epilepsy
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Largest ever collection of patient data of inherited epilepsy conditions

8 Nov 2017 • 3 comments

Researchers from Swansea University Medical School have joined up with five other centres from around the world to compile the biggest recorded collection of families with forms of epilepsy where...

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Cancer

Gut bacteria 'boost' cancer therapy

6 Nov 2017

Bacteria living in the murky depths of the digestive system seem to influence whether tumours shrink during cancer therapy, say French and US researchers. They tested the microbiome - the collection...

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