Obesity Treatment Could Offer Dramatic Weight Loss Without Surgery Or Nausea
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine getting the benefits of gastric bypass surgery without going under the knife—a new class of compounds could do just that. In lab animals, these potential tre…
Have Scientists Found the Gene That Keeps You Thin?
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Most people who like salty and sweet snacks find it’s almost impossible to eat just one potato chip or peanut and only one fancy donut on Hanukkah and then call it quits. It’s not just a lack of self-control that causes this behavior; it’s also a gene. Recently, it has become clear that a gene cal…
Lighting the Way to Noninvasive Blood Glucose Monitoring Using Portable Devices
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Swapping Meat for Quorn Lowers Bad Cholesterol by 10%
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Regularly substituting meat for mycoprotein such as Quorn could help to lower bad cholesterol by 10-percent, which is comparable to switching to a Mediterranean or vegan diet. New research by the University of Exeter, published in Clinical Nutrition, also found substituting meat for Qu…
20 Minutes of Daily Exercise May Ward Off Hospitalization in Middle Age
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Researchers found that adults who regularly exercised were less likely to be hospitalized for such common ills as pneumonia, stroke, diabetes complications and severe urinary tract infections. File Photo by Ian Halperin/UPI | License Photo If you're over 40, regular exercis…
Health, Not Age, Driving a Rise in Pregnancy Complications
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Rising rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, preterm birth and low birthweight, over the past 10 years are largely attrib…
Are Retired NFL Players Aging Faster Than Other Men?
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Former elite football players may age faster than their more average peers, a new study suggests. NFL players, especially former linemen, had fewer disease-free years and earlier high blood pressure and diabetes diagnoses. Two age-related diseases, arthritis and dementia, were also more commonly fo…
Researchers Awarded $15 Million to Study Inflammation’s Impact on Heart, Brain Health
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DALLAS, April 17, 2024— Research teams from Northwestern University Chicago Campus, University of Michigan and University of Pittsburgh will lead a $15 million project dedicated to studying inflammation’s role in cardiac and brain diseases. The American Hea…
How the Body Switches Out of 'Fight' Mode: Study Shows Hormones Reprogram Metabolism of Immune Cells
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A macrophage activated by an inflammatory stimulus after being treated with cortisone. Cortisone affects not only the genes in the nucleus (blue), but also the mitochondria that supply energy (red). Charité | Brenda Krishnacou…
Mount Sinai Researchers to Develop and Study AI-Powered Models That Identify Risk for Cardiovascular Disease and Treatment Response in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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New York (March 07, 2024) Mount Sinai researchers are developing and studying models powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the risk of cardiovascular disease events in patients with obstructi…