Metformin use significantly reduces risk of joint replacement in people with type 2 diabetes
Osteoarthritis is a common chronic condition that usually causes joint pain and can be severe enough to require knee and…
Osteoarthritis is a common chronic condition that usually causes joint pain and can be severe enough to require knee and…
The urge to vomit after eating contaminated food is the body’s natural defensive response to get rid of bacterial toxins….
Urinary incontinence affects nearly 20% of women aged older than 50 years. Many factors can influence a woman’s risk of…
Scientists have for the first time pinpointed a large number of genes that are reliably associated with dyslexia. Around a…
A rehabilitation programme that helps people with long COVID reduce their symptoms and increase activity levels has shown “impressive” results, say…
Following established guidelines about prescription drugs would seem to be an obvious course of action, especially for the professionals that…
Among 35,864 United Kingdom residents, every one-year increase in retinal age, assessed by retinal microvasculature changes, was associated with a…
Since the 1960s, researchers have postulated that major depression stems from disruptions in the serotonin neurotransmitter system, but the evidence…
Published in JAMA Network Open, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers found there is often a disconnect between the medical…
An experimental therapy showed promise as treatment for an aggressively spreading type of colorectal cancer in preclinical models, according to…
In the annals of shoulder surgery, NFL quarterback Drew Brees is an anomaly. In 2005, Brees was tackled and the…
In one of the first large, real-world studies comparing the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines versus natural immunity in protecting against…
Scientists at Scripps Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a clue to the molecular cause of Alzheimer’s—a…
After an intermittent fasting diet intervention, patients achieved complete diabetes remission, defined as an HbA1c (average blood sugar) level of…
There were fewer, but more serious, injuries among athletes competing at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics than at previous Games, with…
Many Americans think of gout as a disease from a bygone era, akin to rickets or scurvy. The condition commonly…
A large study that focused on whether exercise and mindfulness training could boost cognitive function in older adults found no such improvement…
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) — a debilitating chronic lung disease that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis — has previously…
Researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise…
In a large cohort of patients with common forms of chronic kidney disease (CKD), researchers found that urine-to-plasma ratio of urea…
New research published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology has identified three genes and their expressed proteins that…
The COVID-19 global pandemic remains a major public health challenge. ASCOT researchers aim to discover which treatments are most effective…
Patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis who participated in a clinical trial of rocatinlimab—a novel, patient-tailored monoclonal antibody therapy—showed…
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been devastating the entire world. While the vaccination program is…
Those who reported having COVID in early 2020 were also 1.67 times more likely to display clinically meaningful levels of…
For decades, doctors have treated kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with methylphenidate, a stimulant drug sold as Ritalin and Concerta,…
Modern eukaryotic cells contain numerous so-called organelles, which once used to be independent bacteria. In order to understand how these…
A study of school children conducted by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers has found that the majority of children…
Researchers at Mass Eye and Ear and Northeastern University have discovered a previously unidentified immune response inside the nose that…
Residual tumors from Black patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive/HER2-negative primary breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) had a higher…