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Thalidomide: the story of the most notorious drug continues

Thalidomide: the story of the most notorious drug continues

Researchers in Japan and Italy have deepened understanding of the way in which thalidomide causes developmental abnormalities at the molecular level. An international study co-authored...
Groundbreaking CBD-based alternative: are steroids a necessary evil?

Are steroids truly a necessary evil? – a groundbreaking CBD-based alternative

For over 100 chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, steroids remain the first-line treatment – could STERO Biotechs bring the next CBD-based alternative? Following one of...
The AI tech bubble will burst if it can’t prove itself beyond hype

The AI tech bubble will burst if it can’t prove itself beyond hype

While digital health investment continues to gather pace, many health tech startups are failing to materialise into long lasting impact, here Roeland Pater of...

UK Tick-borne Lyme disease cases may be higher than thought

New cases of tick-borne Lyme disease in the UK may be three times higher than previous estimates suggest. The finding suggest that new cases...
Discover the joint venture to develop therapeutics targeting chronic inflammatory conditions

Discover the joint venture to develop therapeutics targeting chronic inflammatory conditions

Therapeutics for chronic inflammatory conditions may come sooner than you think as Tetra Bio-Pharma announce joint venture with Thorne and Onegevity Health to form...
New standards raise the bar for IBD care

New standards raise the bar for IBD care

Crohn’s & Colitis UK and IBD UK campaign to promote better care for everyone with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) – will there be a...
Treating inflammation related conditions with PlantEXT Ltd

Treating inflammation related conditions with PlantEXT Ltd

The world’s most effective medical cannabis pharmaceutical formulations for the treatment of inflammation related conditions. PlantEXT is an Israeli company focused on developing and commercialising...
Did you know taking oral steroids can put patients with inflammatory disease at risk of infection?

Did you know taking oral steroids can put patients with inflammatory disease at risk...

Patients using oral steroids that have the inflammatory disease polymyalgia rheumatica and/or giant cell arteritis have a significantly increased chance of infection. A study in...
Time to look for therapeutic targets in sepsis

Time to look for therapeutic targets in sepsis

Sepsis is a medical condition that few patients have heard of and most doctors dread – But could scientists bring about new therapeutic targets...
Is there a way of advancing inflammatory bowel imaging technologies?

Is there a way of advancing inflammatory bowel imaging technologies?

Part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, iThera Medical is to lead €2.3 million research project to advance inflammatory bowel imaging...
Detecting fibromyalgia: could an experimental blood test be the answer?

Detecting fibromyalgia: could an experimental blood test be the answer?

For the first time, researchers have evidence that detecting fibromyalgia can be reliably done so using an experimental blood test – could this pave...
Chronic inflammation linked with various diseases & shorter life expectancy

Chronic inflammation linked with various diseases & shorter life expectancy

Using new tech, researchers have discovered that chronic inflammation is linked to increased risk for shorter lifespan and several organ-related diseases. By investigating a new...
Can the symptoms of Chron's disease be improved by cannabis oil?

Can the symptoms of Crohn’s disease be improved by cannabis oil?

Studies show that cannabis oil can significantly improve symptoms of Crohn's disease despite having no effect on gut inflammation. Being the first of its kind,...
Womb inflammation may explain why some babies are prone to sepsis after birth

Womb inflammation may explain why some babies are prone to sepsis after birth

According to the American Journal of Pathology, infants are more likely to have sepsis after birth due to womb inflammation. A new report highlights the...
Could paracetamol use in infancy be a cause of asthma

Could paracetamol use in infancy be a cause of asthma?

Specific variants in the GST genes seem to play a role in greater susceptibility to lung problems and possibly be a cause of asthma...
Could osteoporosis be linked to development of dementia

Could osteoporosis be linked to development of dementia?

In almost 60,000 patients, the risk of dementia could be linked to osteoporosis, according to an investigation by the Epidemiology Team of IQVIA, Frankfurt,...
Cases of measles in adults and children hit record high in the European region

Cases of measles in adults hit record high in the European region

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the first six months of 2018 there were over 41,000 cases of measles in adults and...
Infection and inflammation, is there medication for the future?

Infection and inflammation, is there medication for the future?

A new study has mapped how the body’s own peptides act to reduce infection and inflammation by deactivating the toxic substances formed in the...
Fig. 1 Neither the mechanism by which this wide range of triggers can initiate asthma, nor how they provoke an asthma attack, is well understood

Asthma and issues

Researchers at the University Hospital Basel discuss developments in the diagnosis and treatment of asthma and allergies Asthma is defined as a chronic inflammatory disease...

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