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April 19, 2024

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Take It from the Rats: A Junk Food Diet Can Cause Long-Term Damage to Adolescent Brains

Apr. 15, 2024 — A study on the effects of a junk food diet on rats reinforces scientific understanding about the gut-brain ...

Scientists Uncover a Missing Link Between Poor Diet and Higher Cancer Risk

Apr. 12, 2024 — A research team has unearthed new findings which may help explain the connection between cancer risk and poor diet, as well as common diseases like diabetes, which arise from poor diet. The insights gained from this study hold promise for advancing ...

This Outdated Diabetes Drug Still Has Something to Offer

Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the biochemical workings of an old-fashioned diabetes drug, and it's helping them develop new, safer ...

Does the Time of Day You Move Your Body Make a Difference to Your Health?

Apr. 10, 2024 — Undertaking the majority of daily physical activity in the evening is linked to the greatest health benefits for people living with obesity, according to researchers who followed the trajectory of 30,000 people over almost 8 ...

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Siblings With Unique Genetic Change Help Scientists Progress Drug Search for Type 1 Diabetes

Apr. 18, 2024 — Two siblings who have the only known mutations in a key gene anywhere in the world have helped scientists gain new insights that could help progress ...

Global Research Team Finds No Clear Link Between Maternal Diabetes During Pregnancy and ADHD in Children

Apr. 10, 2024 — An international research team has just provided valuable evidence through a 20-year longitudinal study to address the longstanding debate concerning ...

Beating Back Bitter Taste in Medicine

Apr. 9, 2024 — The bitter taste of certain drugs is a barrier to taking some medications as prescribed, especially for people who are particularly sensitive to bitter taste. A team found that the diabetes drug ...

Few Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetics Succeed in Losing Weight -- Weight Gain Linked to Much Higher Risk of Complications

Apr. 4, 2024 — A register-based study identified three distinct BMI trajectory groups among patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. In a four-year follow-up, ...

Study Finds Less Invasive, Safer Option for Removing Benign Pancreatic Tumors

Apr. 4, 2024 — Researchers describe a new technique for the minimally invasive removal of benign tumors located in the challenging posterior head of the pancreas ...

Large Language Models Respond Differently Based on User's Motivation

Apr. 3, 2024 — A new study reveals how large language models (LLMs) respond to different motivational states. In their evaluation of three LLM-based generative conversational agents (GAs)--ChatGPT, Google Bard, and ...

Wound Treatment Gel Fights the Battle Against Antibacterial Resistance

Apr. 2, 2024 — Polymer-based hydrogels are used to treat skin ailments and in tissue engineering because of their ability to retain water, deliver drugs into wounds, and biodegrade. However, they are complicated to ...

Discovery Has Potential to Solve the Billion-Dollar Global Cost of Poorly Managed Wound Healing

Mar. 27, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered a key step in the wound healing process that becomes disabled in diseases like diabetes and aging, contributing to a global ...

Do Sweeteners Increase Your Appetite? New Evidence from Randomised Controlled Trial Says No

Mar. 28, 2024 — Replacing sugar with artificial and natural sweeteners in foods does not make people hungrier -- and also helps to reduce blood sugar levels, a ...

For Younger Women, Mental Health Now May Predict Heart Health Later

Mar. 28, 2024 — Younger women are generally thought to have a low risk of heart disease, but new research urges clinicians to revisit that assumption, especially for women who suffer from certain mental health ...

Eggs May Not Be Bad for Your Heart After All

Mar. 28, 2024 — Whether you like your eggs sunny-side up, hard boiled or scrambled, many hesitate to eat them amid concerns that eggs may raise cholesterol levels and be bad for heart health. However, results from a ...

Clear Shift in Arterial Diseases in Diabetes

Mar. 28, 2024 — There has been a redistribution in the risk of arterial disease in type 1 and 2 diabetes. The risks of heart attack and stroke have decreased significantly, while complications in more peripheral ...

Miscarriages Linked to Health Risks in Later Pregnancies

Mar. 28, 2024 — Researchers analyzed 52 studies involving more than 4 million pregnancies across 22 countries to investigate the health impacts of miscarriage, abortion and recurrent pregnancy loss (more than two ...

Risk Factors for Faster Aging in the Brain Revealed in New Study

Mar. 27, 2024 — Researchers have used data from UK Biobank participants to reveal that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and alcohol intake are the most harmful out of 15 modifiable risk factors for ...

Insulin Affects the Recycling of Cellular Power Plants

Mar. 25, 2024 — In nerve cells, the hormone regulates whether mitochondria are shut down or kept ...

Metformin During Pregnancy Affects the Brain Development in Offspring Mice, Study Finds

Mar. 20, 2024 — With the rise in gestational diabetes and metabolic disorders during pregnancy, metformin is also being prescribed more frequently. Although it is known that the oral antidiabetic agent can cross the ...

Kallistatin Contributes to the Beneficial Metabolic Effects of Weight Loss

Mar. 18, 2024 — After weight loss, people with overweight and obesity express more of the protein Kallistatin in subcutaneous white adipose tissue. Kallistatin improves metabolism and could open up new therapeutic ...

Study With Innovative Insights Into the Heterogeneity of Type 2 Diabetes

Mar. 18, 2024 — A landmark study sheds new light on the heterogeneity of type 2 diabetes. The researchers employed an innovative algorithm to stratify people with type 2 diabetes using routine data and thus ...

Potential Novel Biomarkers of Coronary Heart Disease Discovered

Mar. 18, 2024 — Coronary heart disease is a major global health problem, especially among people with type 2 diabetes. Researchers have identified novel protein biomarkers that are associated with the development of ...

Revolutionary Chronic Wound Treatment Could Help Millions

Mar. 13, 2024 — An effective treatment for chronic wounds that does not involve antibiotics, but an ionised gas to activate a wound dressing, has been developed by a team of international ...

Milk to the Rescue for Diabetics? Cow Produces Human Insulin in Milk

Mar. 13, 2024 — An unassuming brown bovine from the south of Brazil has made history as the first transgenic cow capable of producing human insulin in her milk. The advancement could herald a new era in insulin ...

Study Reveals Genetic Clusters and Biological Pathways That May Explain Differences in Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Mar. 6, 2024 — A recent study analyzed individuals from diverse backgrounds and identified various genetic clusters involved in a broad range of biological mechanisms that may help explain ancestry-associated ...

AI Can Speed Design of Health Software

Mar. 6, 2024 — Artificial intelligence helped clinicians to accelerate the design of diabetes prevention software, a new study ...

Too Little Sleep Raises Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, New Study Finds

Mar. 6, 2024 — Adults who sleep only three to five hours per day are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Chronic sleep deprivation cannot be compensated for by healthy eating ...

Blood Test Could Determine Diabetes Risks

Feb. 21, 2024 — A blood test could potentially be used to assess a patient's risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study has ...

Red Light Can Reduce Blood Glucose Levels

Feb. 20, 2024 — Shining a specific frequency of red light on a person's back for 15 minutes can significantly reduce blood sugar levels, according to a new ...

Fasting-Like Diet Lowers Risk Factors for Disease, Reduces Biological Age in Humans

Feb. 20, 2024 — Cycles of a diet that mimics fasting can reduce signs of immune system aging, as well as insulin resistance and liver fat in humans, resulting in a lower biological age, according to a new ...

Newly Discovered Genetic Markers Help Pinpoint Diabetes Risks, Complications

Feb. 19, 2024 — In the largest genome-wide association study to date on Type 2 diabetes, a team of international researchers has located 1,289 genetic markers associated with Type 2 diabetes (145 of which are newly ...

Gargling Away the 'Bad' Bacteria in Type 2 Diabetes

Feb. 14, 2024 — Researchers have found that gargling with an antiseptic mouthwash can reduce so-called 'bad' bacteria in the mouths of patients with type 2 diabetes. Notably, this reduction in bacteria was ...

Type 2 Diabetes Alters the Behavior of Discs in the Vertebral Column

Feb. 13, 2024 — Type 2 diabetes alters the behavior of discs in the vertebral column, making them stiffer, and also causes the discs to change shape earlier than normal. As a result, the disc's ability to ...