Employees in the U.S. who participate in clinical trials — including those testing treatments for sarcoidosis — and workers also caring for trial participants have access to Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) benefits. That’s according to a new letter from the U.S. Department of Labor, sent in response…
A 26-year-old man in Nepal developed pulmonary sarcoidosis after a mild COVID-19 infection, per a new case report that suggests “sarcoidosis as a potential complication of COVID-19,” according to researchers. The man was initially diagnosed with post-COVID fibrosis, or thickening and scarring of lung tissue following a COVID-19 infection.
An immune cell called a type 1 innate lymphoid cell is found at much higher levels in skin granulomas, that is, clumps of immune cells, of people with sarcoidosis relative to those with non-sarcoid skin granulomas, according to research that shows high levels of the cells were also found…
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