Environmental Factor – May 2019: Inflammation resolution gets top billing at NIH workshop

Researchers from around the country gathered to discuss an area of broad importance at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — inflammation, its resolution, and

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Environmental Factor – January 2020: Chronic inflammation needs focused research to reduce disease

A new paper highlights the toll on life and health from chronic inflammatory diseases, which are at the root of more than half the deaths

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Environmental Factor – February 2020: Parkinson’s driven by inflammation, genetics, and the environment

In 1817, James Parkinson published “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy,” describing the disease that now bears his surname. The British surgeon’s proposed treatment —

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Environmental Factor – June 2021: Male hormones regulate stomach inflammation in mice

“Other than the skin, I can’t think of any tissue in humans and mice that’s more subject to multiple inflammatory attacks than the stomach,” Cidlowski

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Environmental Factor – April 2022: Falk Memorial Lecture focuses on how inflammation ends

A wide variety of human diseases — obesity, asthma, atherosclerosis, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and severe COVID-19 — have been linked to excessive inflammation. For four

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