Since anti-obesity drugs such as semaglutide (branded as Ozempic or Wegovy) have been approved, they have gone from being niche medicines prescribed by doctors to treat people with type 2 diabetes, to being used widely as weight-loss tools. In the United States, a survey of adults found that 12%… S..
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Having high blood pressure, specifically high diastolic blood pressure, was linked to a slightly higher odds of ever having migraine in female participants,… S..
CNN — Babies who have a peanut allergy are now being offered potentially life-changing treatment at hospitals across Australia in a world-first program aimed at building tolerance to them. It is… S..
Blood testing using technology called EpiSign. Credit: London Health Sciences Centre Researchers at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and Lawson Health Research Institute are using advanced… S..
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – A healthy heart beats 60 to 100 beats per minute, but when that rate slows down, patients require a pacemaker. Traditional versions are bulky and need two long wire leads connected to an implanted battery, but now, a wire-free pacemaker is changing the… S..
Lifestyle therapy including nutritional counselling and physical activity is just as helpful as traditional psychotherapy for reducing non-severe depression, according to a new study. Researchers from Deakin University’s Food and Mood Centre say their world-first findings show dieticians and… S..
Many Tampa Bay residents have gotten used to rolling up their sleeves for flu and COVID-19 vaccines. New immunizations are also available to combat respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, for those at high risk of illness. Although the one-time shots reached pharmacies last year, less than a quarter… S..
The general anesthetic propofol may hold the keys to developing new treatment strategies for epilepsy and other neurological disorders, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Linköping University in Sweden. In their study, published July 31 in Nature,… S..
A science illustrator depicts how the carcinogen BBN (left) is affected by gut bacteria and then metabolized to BCPN (right) and distributed in the body, leading to bladder cancer. Credit: Isabel Romero Calvo/EMBL … S..
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A cross-representative survey of adults in the United States showed decreasing levels of trust in physicians and hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic—and the… S..