by CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Phil Zeitler, MD, Ph.D., has been treating youth with type 2 diabetes for more than 20 years. He and a team of researchers published a paper today on the TODAY2 study in the New England Journal of Medicine on the long-term complications of type 2 diabetes. (TODAY stands for...
by Kristin Samuelson, Northwestern University Credit: CC0 Public Domain We’ve long known mothers can experience increased stress, anxiety, and depression during pregnancy and after delivering their baby. Now there’s growing recognition that fathers also face similar mental health challenges, but little has been done to address them. A new pilot study at Northwestern University and the...
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: CC0 Public Domain Obesity increases the risk of developing cancers of the digestive system and it is the person’s fat mass, rather than size, that is the main obesity-related risk factor for these cancer types, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS Medicine by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Karolinska Institutet....
by McGill University Credit: CC0 Public Domain How can we predict suicide risk in students, especially at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many people’s mental health? According to researchers from Montreal and France, self-esteem represents an important predictive marker of suicidal risk. The team from McGill University, University of Montreal, Inserm, and Université de...
by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have published findings in the journal JAMA Network Open indicating that many cancer patients lack sufficient immune protection against the measles and mumps viruses. The highest risk groups within the study were young adults and bone marrow transplant recipients, providing information...
by Garvan Institute of Medical Research Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have discovered a link between cognitive decline and a faster rate of bone loss and found that cognitive decline over five years increased future fracture risk in women. The association between cognitive decline and bone loss was weaker...
The historic heatwave that hit the Pacific Northwest last month was not just uncomfortable and oppressive—it was deadly. In Oregon, the triple-digit temperatures that scorched the region were responsible for 116 deaths, according to the Oregon Medical Examiner’s Office, and prompted Governor Kate Brown to order Oregon Occupational Safety and Health to enact emergency rules...
The inflammatory-aging clock is more accurate than the number of candles on your birthday cake in predicting how strong your immune system is, how soon you’ll become frail, or whether you have unseen cardiovascular problems that could become clinical headaches a few years down the road. In the process, the researchers fingered a bloodborne substance whose abundance...
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY IMAGE: A GINGIVAL BACTERIAL SAMPLE IS TAKEN FROM A SUBJECT. CREDIT: DR. SHATHA BAMASHMOUS, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY UW researchers reveal new aspects of gum disease and the body’s protective response SEATTLE – A team led by University of Washington researchers has, for the first time, identified...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, July 12, 2021 — People of South Asian ancestry have more than double the risk of developing heart disease compared to people of European ancestry, yet clinical risk assessment calculators used to guide decisions about preventing or treating heart disease may fail to account for the increased risk, according to new research published...
