If you are overweight, then you will suffer a faster pace of aging, more age-related disease, greater lifetime medical costs, and an earlier death. The more excess weight and the longer that weight is held, the worse the outcome. In at least one sense, being overweight literally accelerates aging, increasing the pace at which harmful senescent cells accumulate in...
WILEY Human papilloma virus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections and cases various cancers in women and men. There are currently three vaccines available, and their efficacy and safely have been thoroughly assessed in females but not males. A new analysis published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology shows that HPV vaccines...
Everyone has unwanted thoughts once in a while. However, they are particularly intrusive for those with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and schizophrenia. Now scientists from the University of York found that the ability to suppress intrusive thoughts declines when the person is sleep deprived. Unwanted thoughts have a huge negative impact on one’s quality of...
by Karolinska Institutet People with cancer who exercise generally have a better prognosis than inactive patients. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found a likely explanation of why exercise helps slow down cancer growth in mice: Physical activity changes the metabolism of the immune system’s cytotoxic T cells and thereby improves their ability to...
FOODMINDS LLC People with type 2 Diabetes (T2D) are frequently told to avoid eating potatoes, and other high Glycemic Index (GI) foods, because of the longstanding perception that these foods make it difficult to control blood sugar levels. This is especially problematic during the night when blood sugar tends to spike — a phenomenon that...
COMPUSCRIPT LTD IMAGE: THIS STUDY PROVIDES CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE OF LHQW CAPSULE FOR THE TREATMENT OF COVID-19 PATIENTS BASED ON THE COMPONENTS EXPOSED TO HUMAN. Lianhuaqingwen (LHQW) capsule, a herb medicine product, has been clinically proved to be effective in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia treatment. However, human exposure to LHQW components and their pharmacological effects...
Recommendations to avoid opioids in the treatment of chronic pain have focused our attention on the use of nonopioid medications, including gabapentin. Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is an unpleasant condition that negatively impacts many aspects of patients’ lives and is challenging for clinicians to treat. (See Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women: Common, Complex and Real.) The Practice Bulletin from the American College...
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH Bottom Line: Prostate cancer tumors from African American men had higher frequencies of certain genetic alterations that may be associated with aggressive disease, compared with prostate cancer tumors from white men. Journal in Which the Study was Published: Molecular Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research Author: Jianfeng Xu,...
THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY WASHINGTON–All adults with endocrine disorders should be tested for high cholesterol and triglycerides to evaluate their risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a Clinical Practice Guideline issued today by the Endocrine Society. The guideline, titled “Lipid Management in Patients with Endocrine Disorders: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline,” was published online?and will appear in the December...
Senescent cells are damaging to tissue function and health when they linger and grow in number, as becomes the case with age. They contribute to the chronic inflammation of aging via their signaling, the senescence-associated secretory phenotype. In skin, senescent cells are most likely responsible for a sizable fraction of the more problematic later life skin aging, in the...
