Category: 5. Health

Genome-wide association studies have great potential for advancing our understanding of the genetic background of diseases, but so far, few association studies have focused on maternal and newborn diseases, and most have been based on predominantly European populations. To fill these gaps,… Continue Reading

For nearly a century, laboratory studies have shown consistent results: eat less food, or eat less often, and an animal will live longer. But scientists have struggled to understand why these kinds of restrictive diets work to extend lifespan, and how to best implement them in humans. Now, in a… Continue Reading

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a soft robotic “finger” with a sophisticated sense of touch that can perform routine doctor office examinations, including taking a patient’s pulse and checking for abnormal lumps. This work was published October 9… Continue Reading

Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have demonstrated that patients with metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring specific mutations in the STK11 and/or KEAP1 tumor suppressor genes were more likely to benefit from adding the… Continue Reading

How bladder cancer originates and progresses has been illuminated as never before in a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center. The researchers found that antiviral enzymes that mutate the DNA of normal and cancer cells are key promoters of early bladder… Continue Reading

Amazon will more than double to 20 the number of cities where its customers can get same day … [+] delivery of their prescriptions by opening new pharmacies in these markets. Amazon Pharmacy Amazon will more than double to 20 the number of cities where its customers can get same day delivery of… Continue Reading

In just a few years, brand-name injectable drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound have rocketed to fame as billion-dollar annual sellers for weight loss as well as to control blood sugar levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. But the price of these injections is steep:… Continue Reading

The Drug Enforcement Administration announced in early 2024 that it would act on President Joe Biden’s call to reclassify marijuana, moving it from the tightly controlled Schedule I category that it has been in since 1970 to the less restrictive Schedule III status of the Controlled… Continue Reading

Senior Investigator Shinya Yamanaka poses for a portrait in the Yamanaka Lab at Gladstone … [+] Institutes. GLADSTONE INSTITUTES Seventeen years ago, the world woke up to an astounding scientific breakthrough: a team of Japanese scientists, led by Shinya Yamanaka, had reprogrammed skin cells to… Continue Reading

Despite the boom in popularity of expensive GLP-1 drugs to treat weight loss, fewer than one in … [+] five large employers are covering such prescriptions, a new KFF analysis shows. In this photo is Ozempic, a GLP-1 for adults with type 2 diabetes that along with diet and exercise may improve… Continue Reading