Obesity seems to alter the normal way the brain responds to sugar and fat — a problem that may not be corrected by weight loss, a new study suggests. “It could help explain why weight loss and weight-loss maintenance are so hard,” said senior researcher Dr. Mireille Serlie, a professor at Yale School of Medicine.… read on > read on >
Hepatitis C can ruin your liver, and there’s no vaccine to prevent it, but you can take steps to lower your chances of infection. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 2 million U.S. adults are infected with hepatitis C. The virus strikes the liver and is one of the leading… read on > read on >
Hepatitis C is a serious viral infection that can damage your liver over time, but is there a cure for this insidious disease? Over 2 million adults in the United States are infected with hepatitis C, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This virus attacks the liver, often silently, in the… read on > read on >
MONDAY, June 12, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Not long after the snow started falling on a Friday morning in January, Ethan Rutherford went door-to-door in his Wooster, Ohio, neighborhood and offered to shovel snow for the neighbors. The teenager cleared several driveways and sidewalks before returning home. The snowstorm continued, dumping more than… read on > read on >
Men typically don’t want to discuss mental health issues, much less get treatment for one. That’s a problem, given how many males struggle with mental health problems: Six million American men suffer from depression every year, while 3 million struggle with anxiety disorder, according to Mental Health America. Beyond that, 90% of those diagnosed with… read on > read on >
Patients with bile duct cancer might soon have an additional treatment available to them, thanks to a newly discovered tumor target. Some bile duct cancers are driven by a mutated HER2 gene, which has also been implicated in cancers of the breast, esophagus and prostate, researchers report in a new study. An experimental drug targeting… read on > read on >
Going to bed earlier is one way for teens to get the sleep they need, new research suggests. That may be easier said than done, the researchers admitted. But their study shows that if you can get teens to go to bed earlier, they will increase their time asleep by 41 minutes for each additional… read on > read on >
Babies around the world are dying because the antibiotics used to treat sepsis infections in hospitals are losing their effectiveness, a new report warns. A team of 80 researchers from four continents has been studying the issue of antibiotic-resistance and newborn sepsis in 19 hospitals. “The observational study has been instrumental in providing the high-quality… read on > read on >
Many transplant centers routinely practice “list-diving,” when the top candidate among potential organ recipients is skipped in favor of someone further down the list, new research shows. The top candidate is ranked that way based on an objective algorithm using age, waiting time and other factors, while choosing someone else happens with little oversight or… read on > read on >
Drowning is the leading cause of death among children aged 1 to 4 years old in the United States, and too many older children continue to die in the water, according to a new report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). A child can slip underwater in the seconds it takes a parent… read on > read on >
