It keeps food fresh and clean, makes it easy to transport and tells you what’s inside. Convenience is not a worry. But the chemicals recycled plastic food packaging carries are cause for concern, scientists warn. Found in food trays, water bottles, containers, films, bags and more, polyethylene (PE) is the most-used plastic food packaging. Despite a Europe-wide pledge to recycle […]

Seeing the risk Have “a very high prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes, as well as high blood pressure,” said MASALA co-founder Dr. Alka Kanaya, a professor of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Store fat differently than other ethnic groups in the U.S. In South Asians, fat gets concentrated on the liver, especially, and around […]

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) has received lots of media attention over the past few years. This is especially true as the Canadian government considers expanding eligibility for people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness. This has led to increased concerns about the ethics of MAID. Even in its present form, MAID is fraught with ethical tensions. As […]

With heart disease the most common cause of death worldwide, researchers have attempted to quantify how cumulative exposure to multiple risk factors, like high blood pressure, obesity, and elevated cholesterol, affect an individual’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Using sophisticated modeling techniques, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have developed a new tool that can […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Sterling Ransone, Jr, MD’s first day of seeing patients without a mask was, simply put, “unsettling.”  “I can’t tell you how weird it was the first day that I walked down the hall from my office to where my exam rooms are, to not have a […]

Though 30% of the global burden of disease is treatable through surgery, surgeon-scientists make up less than 2% of U.S. researchers who receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a new Yale-led study finds. This underrepresentation affects surgical innovation, and ultimately, patient care, the authors say. The findings were published May 17 in JAMA Surgery. Surgeon-scientists work at […]

Flow cytometry, a laser-based technique employed to detect and analyze the chemical and physical characteristics of cells or particles, is already widely used for the assessment of animal sperm integrity. It can be repurposed to analyze human sperm, especially to predict potential male fertility more accurately than traditional methods, according to an article published in the journal Reproductive Toxicology. The […]

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Sleep deprivation, especially common during postmenopause, has been linked with a number of health problems, including hyperuricemia (elevated serum uric acid), which can often lead to gout and other life-threatening conditions such as heart disease. A new study suggests that weekend catch-up sleep may minimize the risk of hyperuricemia in postmenopausal women. Study results are published online today in Menopause. […]

Braden Kuo, MD, a neurogastroenterologist and the director of the Center for Neurointestinal Health at MGH and an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Tsung-Chun Lee, MD, Ph.D., of Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital, in Taiwan are co-authors of a recent research letter published in Gastroenterology, “ChatGPT Answers Common Patient Questions About Colonoscopy.” Here, they answer […]