Black stroke victims are arriving at emergency rooms much later than white patients, greatly increasing their risk of death or lifelong disability, a new study finds. Every second counts when it comes to treating a stroke, experts say. Any moment’s delay allows for more brain damage to occur, and patients could arrive too late for… read on > read on >
Ozempic and Wegovy can prevent heart problems in overweight and obese people, particularly if they also suffer from kidney disease, a new clinical trial shows. The drugs’ active ingredient, semaglutide, reduced heart health risk by 20% in heavyset people who took it for more than three years, researchers reported Wednesday at the European Association for… read on > read on >
Less than half of people who’ve survived a stroke will go on to have a healthy, normal sleep pattern, new research shows. Normal sleep is defined as six to eight hours of shuteye nightly. However, a majority of the nearly 1,600 stroke survivors in the new study got either too much or too little sleep.… read on > read on >
As fears of the consequences of an unintended pregnancy rose after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, rates of surgical sterilization rose in those states most affected by the decision, new research shows. Rates of tubal sterilization — tying, cutting or removing the fallopian tubes — rose by an average 3% per month in… read on > read on >
Weekly insulin shots can help control both type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as daily injections do, a pair of clinical trials have found. A new class of insulin called efsitora alfa has been designed to require injections only once a week, researchers said. Two phase 3 trials presented Tuesday at the European… read on > read on >
People with diabetes are more prone to gum disease, due to the damage the chronic illness does to small blood vessels, a new study warns. Diabetics who suffer from other diseases caused by small blood vessel damage — diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy — are also at higher risk for gum disease, researchers found. People were 21%… read on > read on >
Widespread and easy access to guns is the reason behind the shockingly high rate of firearm deaths in the United States, and not any rise in mental health problems suffered by perpetrators, a new study shows. The United States has the same burden of mental health disorders as 40 other countries with comparable populations, researchers… read on > read on >
An analysis of where suicides are occurring in the United States shows that, tragically, location matters. People living in poorer areas with fewer resources are significantly more likely to fall victim to suicide versus those living in more affluent areas, new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. “Improving the conditions… read on > read on >
Having asthma appears linked to raised odds for miscarriage and troubles with fertility among women, new Danish research shows. “We found that women fulfilling the definition of asthma had a higher rate of fetal loss and an increased use of fertility treatment. The more severe the asthma and the more flare-ups the women experienced, the… read on > read on >
New research uncovers a possible reason why teenaged girls struggled so mightily with their mental health during the pandemic: Scans showed their brains aged far faster than expected during that stressful time, even faster than the brains of their male peers. In the study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists… read on > read on >
