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Light at Night Tied to Diabetes Risk in Largest Study to Date

Christina Szalinski July 11, 2024 Concerned about your patient’s type 2 diabetes risk? Along with the usual preventive strategies — like diet and exercise and, when appropriate, glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists — there’s another simple, no-risk strategy that just might help: Turning off the light at night. A study in The Lancet found that...

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Child and teen mortality in the US experiences largest increase in decades

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY RICHMOND, Va. (March 13, 2023) — Child and adolescent mortality rates in the United States rose by 20% between 2019 and 2021, the largest increase in at least 50 years, according to an editorial published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. These increases follow decades of progress in lowering the rate of death from...