Researchers say procedure not yet tested on people could eventually be used to help locate injuries or tumours Ian Sample Science editorThu 5 Sep 2024 14.00 EDT Researchers have peered into the brains and bodies of living animals after discovering that a common food dye can make skin, muscle and connective tissues temporarily transparent. Applying...
News Release 8-Sep-2024 Reports and ProceedingsDiabetologia Night owls have a higher BMI, larger waists, more hidden body fat and are almost 50% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D) than those who go to bed earlier, new research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes...
Medscape Medical News > MedBrief Edited by Shrabasti Bhattacharya August 01, 2024 TOPLINE:Patients with alopecia areata (AA) had a higher prevalence of several psychiatric and autoimmune comorbidities at baseline and were at greater risk of developing those comorbidities after diagnosis. METHODOLOGY:Researchers evaluated 63,384 patients with AA and 3,309,107 individuals without AA (aged 12-64 years) from...
September 5, 2024 by Stephanie Winn, UC Davis Credit: CC0 Public Domain An estimated one in eight men at some point will get prostate cancer. Those statistics are expected to surge in the next 15 years partly due to the Baby Boomer generation reaching the age when prostate cancer is most common. Millennials won’t be...
August 29, 2024 by European Society of Cardiology Credit: Sora Shimazaki from PexelsAccording to research presented at ESC Congress 2024, women with endometriosis have a 20% greater risk of significant cardiac outcomes compared with women without endometriosis. “For decades, cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been thought of as a man’s disease and risk factors have been...
August 19, 2024 by Elana Gotkine Older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have high health care utilization and poor survival outcomes, according to a study published online Aug. 13 in Hematological Oncology. Marie Anne-Catherine Neumann, Ph.D., from the University of Cologne in Germany, and colleagues conducted an analysis of 107 consecutive patients with newly...
August 17, 2024 by Elana Gotkine Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with an increased likelihood of any eating disorder, according to a review published online Aug. 8 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Laura G. Cooney, M.D., from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and colleagues conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis...
August 16, 2024 by Elana Gotkine In 2022, the emergency department visit rate was 47 visits per 100 people, according to an August data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics. Christopher Cairns, M.P.H., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues used data from the 2022 National Hospital...
Edited by Shrabasti Bhattacharya August 09, 2024 TOPLINE:Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have higher odds of some eating disorders, including bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and disordered eating, regardless of weight. METHODOLOGY:A small systematic review and meta-analysis showed increased odds of any eating disorders and disordered eating scores in adult women with PCOS compared...
August 13, 2024 by Elana Gotkine Treatment with glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) is associated with lower rates of hyperkalemia and a lower rate of renin-angiotensin system inhibitor (RASi) discontinuation compared with treatment with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4is) among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to a study published online Aug. 12...
