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Most nutrition science suggests that meals with the same basic nutritional profile will have the same impact on a person's blood sugar.

There’s a term for reducing unnecessary or harmful drugs: “deprescribing.” Especially as patients age, experts say, it’s important to regularly review the medications they’re taking.

Several Canadian jurisdictions are moving toward ending the twice-yearly clock change, but a new analysis published in Canadian Medical Association Journal argues that eliminating the clock change is only half the...

Black people in Canada have an increased risk of severe maternal morbidity (SMM)—serious complications that can occur during pregnancy, labor or delivery, and postpartum—compared with white people, according to new...

Initial results of the NRG Oncology NRG-GI003 clinical study comparing proton and photon therapy for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) indicate that proton therapy did not improve the primary...

Inflammatory conditions in the brain, including traumatic brain injury and degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, could be targeted with an existing drug thanks to new research that shows it can work in brain cells.

The way digital technologies are currently built and governed creates real risks to health worldwide, alongside genuine benefits, according to a new three-paper series authored by 13 global experts and published in...

Providing people with nutritious foods can improve the management of chronic metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension. However, most studies of "Food Is Medicine" programs have only looked at their...

New research from two William & Mary students has found that the risk of heart attack could be significantly lowered with one simple dietary change: increasing the intake of pulses. But what is a pulse? A food group...

The angiopoietin-Tie signaling pathway has long been known to be essential for the maturation and maintenance of healthy blood vessels. It stabilizes the vessel wall and regulates vascular growth during development....

For millions of people at risk of glaucoma, healthy eye pressure can mean the difference between preserving vision and losing it. Yet despite decades of research, scientists still do not fully understand what...

Physicians typically use either a higher dose of cisplatin given every three weeks or a lower dose given weekly in combination with radiation to treat locally advanced head and neck cancer. However, before NRG-HN009,...

In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, progressive neuronal damage is associated with the accumulation of abnormal tau filaments in the brain. The core of these filaments forms a highly ordered...

Cognitive flexibility, the ability to adjust one's way of thinking or behavior as a situation changes, is known to gradually decline with age or due to some conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's...

A recent BBC report described women posing as men to obtain testosterone gel, hoping to improve their menopause symptoms because female testosterone products are not easily available to them. But why is the appetite...

Cut the power, and the machine stops. That was part of the motivation behind a four-year effort to map all the proteins in the mitochondria—often called the powerhouse of the cell—of the parasites that cause sleeping...

Tau is a protein that occurs naturally in the brain. It is essential for proper neuron development and for how neurons communicate with each other. The same protein, however, when misshapen or misfolded, can act as a...

Researchers at Upstate Medical University have identified a key mechanism that helps determine the length of myelin, the protective coating that surrounds many nerve fibers and allows signals to travel efficiently...

Indigenous children across the globe are experiencing significant climate-related health impacts, ranging from malnutrition and infectious diseases to effects on mental health and cultural well-being and problems...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common mental health condition primarily characterized by persistent low mood or loss of interest in daily activities. While several medications are available to treat depression,...

A caulking gun filled with silicone compound is set to enable doctors and nurses in the future to seal even deep wounds caused by blast injuries—thereby preventing amputations and reducing mortality among patients...