Introduction Altered complement component 3 (C3) activation in patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency (AATD) has been reported. To understand the potential impact on course of inflammation ...

Shares in Wave Life Sciences rose by 74% after it reported clinical data with a pioneering new RNA-editing therapy for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency ... help address lung symptoms, but have ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, is a serious condition that affects the lungs, making it hard to breathe. It develops slowly over time and is often caused by damage to the airways and ...

The NHS has warned people that a painful symptom in the mouth could indicate a serious and even potentially dangerous vitamin deficiency. Certain vitamins and minerals are needed to help the body ...

Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway City consultant physician, respiratory medicine and interventional pulmonologist Dr Syed Ajmal Syed Ali said that low awareness is one of Malaysia's biggest challenges in ...

Sometimes, people with iron deficiency anemia don't respond to treatment with iron supplementation and may go months to years with little to no improvement in anemia. This can happen if the dose is ...

Compensated cirrhosis describes the stage of cirrhosis in which a person is not experiencing any symptoms. In severe cases, it can progress to decompensated cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is a progressive ...

This translates to faster disease progression and poorer survival times in people of color. Stage 3 Symptoms: AIDS AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the most advanced stage of HIV where ...

In another example of the effect of modifier genes, Schiefermeier et al [45] tried to delineate why some patients have later-onset neurologic as well as hepatic symptoms by examining the potential ...

Coeliac disease was diagnosed on the basis of an iron deficiency anaemia, subtotal villous atrophy on small bowel biopsy, and raised anti-gliadin and anti-endomysial antibodies. The temporal ...