UT Health San Antonio researchers will lead a three-year, $1.9 million study funded by the Department of Defense to help Parkinson's patients with serious swallowing difficulties, or dysphagia, with a trial including active-duty U.S. service members, veterans or direct relatives of service members.

It has only recently become known that two parallel systems of blood formation exist in the body, originating from different precursor cells. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a method to examine both systems separately in mice for the first time. Their surprising finding: the majority of immune cells do not originate from classic blood stem cells in the bone marrow, but from precursor cells that are independent of blood stem cells and are already present in the embryo. The number of these precursors decreases with age, which may explain the known decline in lymphocyte production in old age.

In two experiments, researchers find that introducing people to "mental models" about how mRNA vaccination works and how the body protects itself from foreign DNA can preemptively or reactively protect against misconceptions about mRNA vaccination changing a recipient’s DNA without repeating the misconceptions. 

A decade of work led by CU Anschutz professor Lilia Cervantes, MD, and her colleagues reveal specially trained community health workers can improve dialysis adherence.

Around the world, doctors, nurses and pharmacists are turning to evidence-based integrative approaches such as acupuncture, yoga, exercise, massage and nutrition counseling to help people with cancer manage the harsh side effects of treatment.