Janet Dyer

Articles by Janet Dyer

Two studies show that high heart failure rates in the Black population are a legacy of discriminatory mortgage policies.

The study will enroll an estimated 1,000 patients, of whom approximately 200 will have vitiligo. The remaining participants will be at-risk family members, some 40 to 60 of whom are expected to develop vitiligo during the 5-year study.

Results reported in JAMA Dermatology today show disagreement between physicians and patients in the grading of skin disease. Physicians tend to see severity relative to other patients, note the researchers, while patients may compare themselves with peers and their social circle.

Researchers using data from prospective cohort studies identify higher levels of diglycerides and triglycerides in the blood as possibly playing an important role in the multifactorial causation of glaucoma.

Researchers in Spain explore strategies for making tumor microenvironment less “tumor permissive.” Their experiments were in mice models of the lung cancer, so the findings are from early-stage research and far from the final word.