By Michael Franco February 22, 2023 Unhealthy white fat cells like these are gobbled up by brown fat cells, offering scientists a research target for treating diabetes, obesity and heart disease Depositphotos Take a look at the health influencers clicking up followers on social media these days and you’ll start to notice a trend involving...
by Medical Research Council Credit: CC0 Public Domain Early treatment with an asthma drug budesonide shortens recovery time in COVID-19 patients aged over 50 who are treated at home or in other community settings. The Platform Randomized Trial of Interventions against COVID-19 in Older People (PRINCIPLE) trial is led by the University of Oxford. It is...
Asthma and allergy drug montelukast—sold as a generic and under the brand name Singulair—will get a “boxed warning” over potential ties to neuropsychiatric effects, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. The drug has long carried a warning that it has been linked with an increased risk for “agitation, depression, sleeping problems, and suicidal...
fter 12 weeks of taking an anti-asthma drug, a subset of patients with type 2 diabetes showed a clinically significant reduction in blood glucose during a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine and University of Michigan researchers. Alan Saltiel, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes...
