Bram Sable-Smith | KFF Health News When Phyllisa Deroze was told she had diabetes in a Fayetteville, North Carolina, emergency department years ago, she was handed pamphlets with information on two types of the disease. One had pictures of children on it, she recalled, while the other had pictures of seniors. Deroze, a 31-year-old English...
TIMESOFINDIA.COM 01/12If your diet has less than 300 mg of magnesium, you are likely to experience the following symptoms Magnesium is a vital mineral that plays a crucial role in numerous physiological functions within the body. While adult men require 400-420 mg of Magnesium daily, women need 310-320 mg of this essential mineral daily. Women...
Marilynn Larkin TOPLINE:Consuming nonsugar sweeteners (NSS) leads to significant changes in both stool and duodenal microbial diversity and composition and levels of circulating inflammatory markers. METHODOLOGY:Researchers analyzed samples from the REIMAGINE (Revealing the Entire Intestinal Microbiota and its Associations with the Genetic, Immunologic, and Neuroendocrine Ecosystem) study to assess the potential effects of NSS consumption...
Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand Your gut has a mind of its own. A “second brain” of nervous system cells, including glia (stained green in this cross section of a mouse...
by Robin Gurwitch, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainViolent photos and videos—whether from conflicts abroad or shootings near home—are commonplace, even ubiquitous, on television and social media today. The impact on children can be debilitating. SciLine interviewed Dr. Robin Gurwitch, a psychologist and professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical...
by Queen Mary, University of London Pressure-driven foam cell formation revealed as key driver of arterial disease, paving the way for new therapiesChronic Yoda1 treatment supports transition to a foam cell phenotype. A-B) Wound scratch assay shows reduced migration of Yoda1 treated A7r5 cells. C) Nanoindentation indicates a lower Young’s Modulus after Yoda1 treatment. D,E)...
by University of Louisvillevaping Credit: CC0 Public Domain With the start of a new year, smokers and vapers may have resolved to quit or cut back on the habit to improve their health. They may want to use caution, however, if their strategy involves switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, considered by some to be a...
by Nottingham Trent University Live-cell cytotoxicity analysis shows that carnosine induces the death of PC346Flu1 (A) and TRAMP-C1 (B) cells. Carnosine inhibited cell growth in a dose- and time-dependent manner due to the relatively different growth rates of the cells studied. The higher the dose of carnosine, the shorter the time required to reach cell death...
Lilly says its weight loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound shouldn’t be used for ‘cosmetic’ reasonsBeth Snyder BulikSenior EditorEli Lilly says it wants people to stop using its drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro for “cosmetic weight loss,” publishing a letter Thursday saying that it “stands against the use of its medicines” for that purpose. The two drugs...
Sara Freeman When axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) is suspected, a “prompt referral to a rheumatologist” is in order. But with the referral possibly taking several weeks, if not months in some parts of the world, how can primary care practitioners manage patients with this type of chronic back pain in the meantime? And what is the...
