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Study identifies new pathway to suppressing autoimmunity

September 29, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Hospital for Special Surgery Research Institute have uncovered new details about how the immune system prevents the production of antibodies that can recognize and damage the body’s own, healthy tissues. The study, to be published September 29 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), also reveals how this process is impaired in autoimmune disorders such as systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus and suggests potential new strategies to treat these diseases.

Anesthesiologists should play bigger role in perioperative care of people with Substance Use Disorders

August 24, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results

As use and misuse of alcohol, opioids, and psychostimulants continues to increase, anesthesiologists can become a more integral part of the care team managing patients with a Substance Use Disorder (SUD).

Training immune cells to remove ‘trash’ helps resolve lung inflammation

August 24, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results

Acute lung injury occurs when our lung’s immune system response becomes hyperactivated and causes inflammation to continue unchecked. In fact, many deaths from COVID-19 were from acute lung injury.