A machine learning tool that can analyze certain molecules in stool samples may help to better diagnose primary Sjögren’s disease, according to a new study from researchers in China. The team found that their novel model, using fecal samples, could distinguish primary Sjögren’s patients from healthy individuals with an…
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Women with primary Sjögren’s disease often face a combination of problems — key among them a weaker sense of taste and smell, disrupted sleep, and sexual discomfort caused by dryness — that reduce their quality of life. That’s according to a new review of more than a dozen studies,…
Rise Therapeutics plans to launch a Phase 1 clinical trial testing R-2487, its experimental oral therapy for autoimmune diseases, in people with Sjögren’s disease. R-2487, which leverages bacterial proteins to suppress the abnormal immune responses in autoimmune diseases like Sjögren’s, “is disease-modifying, focusing on long-term immune correction rather…
Primary Sjögren’s disease-associated interstitial lung disease (pSjD-ILD) — a form of Sjögren’s disease that’s characterized by scarring in the lungs — tends to lead to worse outcomes in biological males than in females, a new study reports. “Our retrospective study revealed that in patients with pSjD-ILD, male individuals were…
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