DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: From eating dairy and spicy food to doing squats simple steps to speed up metabolism People often tell me that, despite eating healthily, they continue to put on weight — and they wonder if this could be because their metabolism has slowed down. Though I’ve long been sceptical about this, a remarkable new study published in the […]

Richard D. Brasington Jr., MD, a highly regarded professor emeritus of medicine and former director of the rheumatology fellowship training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, drowned April 30, 2023, while fishing in the North Fork River in Ozark, Mo. He was 71. Brasington joined the faculty in 1996 and trained dozens of medical residents and […]

At TechNet Cyber 2023 in Baltimore, Mark Gorak, principal director for resources and analysis for the Department of Defense’s deputy chief information officer, talked about the Pentagon’s massive cyber workforce shortage and its goal to implement a cultural shift in hiring for cybersecurity and infosec roles. WHY IT MATTERS With more than 30,00 cybersecurity and infosec positions, DoD is changing […]

A new review paper was published in Oncotarget, titled “Systemic AL amyloidosis: current approach and future direction.” In this review, researchers from SUNY Upstate Medical University, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Monmouth Medical Center, University of Balamand, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, UnityPoint Methodist, Houston Methodist Cancer Center, and Cleveland Clinic Florida report the literature on the latest treatment updates […]

Scientists from Singapore have demonstrated the critical role played by a special transporter protein in regulating the brain cells that ensure nerves are protected by coverings called myelin sheaths. The findings, reported by researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School and the National University of Singapore in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, could help to reduce the damaging impacts of ageing on […]

New research led by UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to predict which childhood leukemia patients are at higher risk of not responding well to chemotherapy could allow clinicians to refine treatment strategies to give the best chance of success. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, combined U.K. trial data from 2003–2019 to see which patients […]

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A mum-of-two has issued a warning after contracting an illness which has “taken over her life” when she was bitten by a tick on a family picnic. Olivera Marshall contracted Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick on a family picnic in 2020 and is now speaking out about the devastating symptoms. She said: “It’s very very painful. I […]

In a recent study published in the JAMA Network Open, researchers performed a systematic review and meta-analysis using secondary data from 40 published studies reporting time-varying, population-level coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates against laboratory-confirmed infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants, Omicron or Delta, and symptomatic disease. The primary outcome for this secondary data […]

Some types of epilepsy medicine taken during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of severe psychiatric disorders in children. This is the conclusion of a comprehensive study of 38,000 children of mothers with epilepsy by researchers from Aarhus University. The research is published in the journal JAMA Neurology. While it has long been known that some forms of epilepsy […]