By TILLY ARMSTRONG CONSUMER REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 12:20 EDT, 16 May 2023 | UPDATED: 12:41 EDT, 16 May 2023 An expert has revealed how anybody can access documents explaining why they were denied a health insurance claim – including phone call conversations between your insurer and doctor. Health lawyer Juliette Forstenzer Espinosa said these files are free to access and...
by Brian Niemietz Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The World Health Organization has come out against the use of non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) as a means to control weight or limit noncommunicable sickness. “The recommendation is based on the findings of a systematic review of the available evidence which suggests that use of NSS does not confer...
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two years of heavy exposure to TCE, a liquid chemical that lingers in the air, water and soil, may increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease by 70%. Previous research has linked TCE, or trichloroethylene, to certain cancers, but a new study publishing in JAMA Neurology on May 15,...
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory arthritis that typically causes inflammation or swelling in the spine’s ligaments and joints. It can cause pain and stiffness, which may worsen over time, leading to vertebrae fusion. The inflammation associated with AS can be widespread, which means a person can experience symptoms in other areas of the body....
By Jennifer Rigby May 15, 2023 LONDON (Reuters) – New highly-effective weight loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy are not a “silver bullet” for addressing the rapid rise in global obesity rates, the World Health Organization’s nutrition chief told Reuters, as the agency conducts its first review of obesity management guidelines in more than 20 years....
by Rose Cairns and Nial Wheate, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock As winter approaches, many parents will be bracing for the cold and flu season. Young children typically get at least six colds a year. In previous generations, parents might have reached for the cough syrup to relieve a dry or chesty cough. But we now know cough syrups aren’t very...
The retrospective study, published in PLOS ONE, looked at data gathered from 94 patients with type 2 diabetes who had been seen at an outpatient clinic in a hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. The researchers divided the patients into two groups: the first group included patients who had good “occlusal function”—enough teeth placed properly and making contact in such a way that a...
Written by Christina Aungst, PharmD | Reviewed by Joshua Murdock, PharmD, BCBBS Updated on January 31, 2023 Key takeaways: Some commonly prescribed medications can cause weight gain. Both prescription and over-the-counter medications have been linked to this side effect. Certain diabetes medications, antidepressants, and antipsychotics are medications that can cause weight gain. Antihistamines, some hormonal...
by Nancy Fliesler, Children’s Hospital Boston Senescence inducer CuSO4, which causes ER stress, activates NKp46- and NKG2D-dependent NK killing, but 4-PBA, which induces senescence without ER stress, does not. a, Representative flow cytometry histograms of β-galactosidase activity (SA-βgal) (left) and MFI of 3 samples (right) of KP that were untreated (UT) or treated with CuSO4 or 4-PBA....
by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Association between CpG methylation and renal function. The methylation level of each CpG site was tested for its association with baseline eGFR (a–c) and eGFR slope (d–f). The results of all the 434,908 CpG sites analyzed in this study are shown using Manhattan plots (a, d), quantile–quantile (QQ) plots (b, e),...
