by Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Credit: CC0 Public Domain Neuroscientists from the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University, Rome Campus, and the A. Gemelli IRCCS Polyclinic Foundation have found that intensive exercise could slow the course of Parkinson’s disease. The finding could pave the way for new non-drug approaches. The study, “Intensive exercise ameliorates motor...
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EXCLUSIVE: Has Harvard discovered the elixir of youth? Scientists claim they’ve reversed aging using a simple drug cocktail
By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM UPDATED: 12:17 EDT, 14 July 2023 Harvard scientists believe they are one step closer to a fountain of youth pill that can de-age people. The team discovered six chemical cocktails that reversed the aging process in human and mice skin cells ‘by several years’. Dr David Sinclair, a molecular biologist at Harvard...
Discovery of chemical means to reverse aging and restore cellular function
by Impact Journals LLC Reprogramming small molecule cocktails restore NCC alterations in senescent cells. (A) Chemical structures of small molecules of basal cocktails used to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from mouse (left) or human (right) somatic cells. (B) Correlation heatmaps showing eGFP and mCherry colocalization in human senescent fibroblasts demonstrate the effects of...
New Oral GLP-1 Agonist for Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes
Miriam E. Tucker June 24, 2023 SAN DIEGO – Orforglipron, Eli Lilly’s investigational oral daily nonpeptide glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist that can be taken with or without food, appears comparable with other injectable and oral agents in the class for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes, suggest two new phase 2 studies. Currently approved GLP-1 agonists for type...
33% of Type 1 Diabetes Patients Insulin-Free With Stem Cells
Miriam E. Tucker July 03, 2023 SAN DIEGO — An investigational allogeneic stem cell–derived pancreatic islet cell replacement therapy (VX-880, Vertex Pharmaceuticals) continues to show promise as a treatment for type 1 diabetes, according to the latest data, from six patients thus far. Two of the six are insulin-independent beyond 1 year after receiving the VX-880 infusions,...
Triple Agonist Retatrutide Hits New Weight-Loss Highs
Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD June 26, 2023 SAN DIEGO — New designer molecules that target weight loss via multiple mechanisms continue to raise the bar of how many pounds people with overweight or obesity can lose. Retatrutide (Eli Lilly), an investigational agent that combines agonism to three key hormones that influence eating and metabolism into a single...
FDA Approves New Device for Enlarged Prostate Treatment
Marcus A. Banks July 11, 2023 The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new catheter designed to treat urinary tract symptoms of an enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). Designed and marketed by Urotronic (Plymouth, Minnesota), the Optilume BPH Catheter System employs mechanical dilation to relieve obstruction of the prostate and then...
10 Ways Docs Sabotage Their Patients’ Weight Loss Journeys
Yoni Freedhoff, MD July 11, 2023 Are there medical conditions other than obesity where physicians, if even inadvertently, regularly sabotage their patients’ efforts at managing them? Because for patients with obesity, their physicians, sometimes even before they walk into the examining room to meet them, do and say things that may quash their weight loss efforts. No doubt this list will...
Atypical infections in chronic sinusitis: thinking outside the box
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC IMAGE: FIGURE 1: CT-SCAN IN A SAGITTAL SECTION SHOWING A MUCOSAL SWELLING AND OBSTRUCTION OF THE MAXILLARY SINUS DUE TO AN ASPERGILLOMA (CONTRAST MEDIUM ENHANCEMENT). CREDIT: 2023 DUDDE ET AL. “[…] in many cases [of chronic sinusitis] only symptom control is achieved.” BUFFALO, NY- July 14, 2023 – A new research perspective was...
New tool pinpoints gaps in awareness of blood cancer symptoms
by University of Surrey Symptom awareness. *Cough was included as a non-blood cancer symptom. Credit: BMC Cancer (2023). DOI: 10.1186/s12885-023-11149-x A new tool could help identify gaps in the public’s knowledge of blood cancer symptoms—helping to shape future awareness campaigns that could save countless lives. Researchers from the University of Surrey and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)...