Category: Medicine
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Efficacy of Bempedoic Acid, Novel Treatment for Elevated LDL Cholesterol
By Anthony Rice Bempedoic acid is a novel non-statin drug produced by Esperion Therapeutics to treat hypercholesterolemia, elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in the blood.1 In the double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 2022 CLEAR Outcomes trial conducted by Esperion, bempedoic acid treatment was associated with reductions in major adverse cardiovascular events among patients intolerant…
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Engineered Bacteria Guide Cells to Kill Tumors: A New World of Cancer Treatment
By Arra Ju ’27 Currently, in your body, cells are committing cannibalism. More commonly known as killer T-cells, these cells that commit “cellular cannibalism” exist in our body and carry out an immune response via this natural process of killing foreign cells, cancer cells, and cells infected with a virus. The surfaces of T-cells are…
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New Advances in Understanding Xist and Female Autoimmunity
Depiction of immune response to X chomosome inactivation (Emily Moskal/Stanford Medicine News Center) By Mindy Sim ’27 Eighty percent of patients diagnosed with an autoimmune disease are females.1 What is the cause for this strikingly disproportionate distribution of autoimmune disease cases in females? This is the question that many scientists have set out to answer,…