Imagine being able to swap out broccoli for sweets, Ben & Jerry’s or some other sugary treat and achieve the same health benefits. This is fact not fantasy for about two to three percent of the Greenlandic population. Two copies of a gene variant make it so that they absorb sugar differently than other people do. “Adult Greenlanders with the […]

(Reuters Health) – Many human embryos discarded prior to implantation might have the potential to result in a successful in vitro fertilization procedure and a live birth, a recent study suggests. Researchers examined the prevalence and distribution of aneuploid cells within unselected preimplantation embryos. They disaggregated 73 blastocysts down to five portions, including the inner cell mass (ICM) and four […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration put a clinical hold on Mind Medicine Inc’s application to start testing the psychedelic drug commonly known as LSD in patients with generalized anxiety disorder. The Canada-based drug developer said on Tuesday the FDA hold was related to its investigational new drug application, which is required to start a mid-stage trial of […]

<img class="aligncenter" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/south-africas-case-dro.jpg" alt="South Africa's case drop may show omicron peak has passed" title="Sandile Cele, a researcher at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, works on the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus Wednesday Dec. 15, 2021. South Africa's noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country's dramatic omicron-driven wave has […]

A new study from the University of Surrey has found that young women who took four weeks of prebiotic supplements made healthier food choices and consumed less sugar. The prebiotics used in this study were galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) which increase the amount of “friendly” gut bacteria. In a paper published by the journal Nutrients, researchers from the University of Surrey set […]

There is no magic pill that will cure obesity, a condition that affects over 40% of adults in the United States. But there is a new type of medicine that is a potential game-changer. It’s an anti-obesity medication, west allied and doctors say that part of what makes it unique is how it’s prescribed: It is used to treat obesity […]

Dr Dawn Harper on signs of vitamin B12 and vitamin D deficiency We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Dr Laurence Knott pointed out that pernicious anaemia, […]

In the United States, federal regulators manage air pollution primarily due to its effects on human health and mortality. Current regulatory analyses assume that all people are affected equally by air pollution. A new study estimated the mortality impacts of air pollution using information specific to race and ethnicity. The study found that, because older Black and Hispanic people are […]

GUNNISON, Colo. — The night after Thanksgiving, a small ambulance service that covers a huge swath of southwestern Colorado got a call that a patient needed an emergency transfer from the hospital in Gunnison to a larger one with an intensive care unit 65 miles away in Montrose. The patient — a 78-year-old man — was experiencing atrial fibrillation, accutane […]

It’s happened to most of us at one time or another. You’re lying in bed, dozing off, and suddenly your mind conjures an unexpected thought or image, as if from nowhere. Into your head pops an obscure cartoon character. Or the face of an old schoolmate you haven’t thought about for 20 years. Or perhaps you remember an argument you […]