by Kate Ruder, KFF Health News Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On a recent November evening, Angie Phoenix waited at a pharmacy here in Colorado’s second-largest city to pick up prescription drugs to treat her high blood pressure and arm seizures. But this transaction was different from typical exchanges that occur every day at thousands of...
by Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: CC0 Public Domain Some older people struggle with remembering to take their medications or organizing them effectively. Adult children, like yourself, can help by taking steps to monitor and update medication lists. Doing this can help prevent potential health complications, while also providing peace of mind for both you...
Marilynn Larkin Studies have shown links between statin use and type 2 diabetes (T2D) for more than a decade. A US Food and Drug Administration label change for the drugs warned in 2012 about reports of increased risks of high blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin (A1c) levels. However, in the same warning, the FDA said...
Neil Osterweil BOSTON — Patients with metabolic-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD, formerly NAFLD) without cirrhosis who took daily low-dose aspirin in a double-blind randomized trial demonstated significant reductions in liver fat content over 6 months compared with similar patients who took a placebo, study results show. “In MASLD without cirrhosis, low-dose aspirin, 81 milligrams daily,...
A common skin bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus can cause itchiness by acting directly on the nerve cells. DEPOSIT PHOTOSSHARE The itchiness that comes with some annoying dermatological conditions might be caused by certain microbes on skin. In a study published November 22 in the journal Cell, a team of scientists found that a common skin...
Megan Brooks Longer cumulative use of medication to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with a small, but statistically significant, increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), results of a large Swedish nested case-control study suggest. The increased risk was evident only for hypertension and arterial disease, was dose-dependent, and was higher for stimulant than nonstimulant...
Scientists found the cells in mice — and say they could lead to a better understanding of human appetite. Carissa Wong Credit: Nishant Sharma/Getty Brain cells that control how quickly mice eat, and when they stop, have been identified. The findings, published in Nature1, could lead to a better understanding of human appetite, the researchers...
by Technical University of Denmark Combined specificity tree for HLA-DR, HLA-DP, and HLA-DQ. Orange molecules have peptide coverage corresponding to at least 50 high-confidence ligands, and blue molecules have a pseudo-sequence distance of at most 0.05 to an orange molecule. Logos in red frames correspond to noncovered molecules. Credit: Jonas Birkelund Nilsson A new paper in...
Credit: Neuron (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.08.007 States of unconsciousness, such as those that occur during sleep or while under the effect of anesthesia, have been the focus of countless past neuroscience studies. While these works have identified some brain regions that are active and inactive when humans are unconscious, the precise contribution of each of these...
By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaNov 24 2023Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. In a recent review published in Nutrients, researchers reviewed existing data on the bio-modulatory effects of pomegranate (Punica granatum l., PG) polyphenols on metabolic disorders.Study: The Modulatory Bioeffects of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) Polyphenols on Metabolic Disorders: Understanding Their Preventive Role against Metabolic Syndrome. Image...
