Tokyo Medical and Dental University Archives

Shining a light on sarcoidosis: The path from infection to treatment

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A close up image of a brown eye showing the effects of sarcoidosis in the eye with granulomas around the pupil.

Sarcoidosis can often be difficult to diagnose and tricky to treat. The disease, which produces ball-like conglomerates of inflammatory cells called granulomas in the affected organs, looks likely to be caused by a bacterium called Propionibacterium acnes. Dr Yoshinobu Eishi and his team at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, investigate the previously unknown path from P. acnes infection to […]

Beyond osteoporosis: Preventing fragility fractures

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$Beyond osteoporosis: Preventing fragility fractures$

Osteoporosis is known to be a risk factor for fragility fractures in postmenopausal women. However, not all women who suffer fragility fractures have osteoporosis, so other factors must also be important. Dr Koji Fujita of Tokyo Medical and Dental University is investigating the link between certain physical characteristics and risk of fragility fractures. In this work, Dr Fujita found a […]