I’ll never forget the day I woke up with the worst headache of my life. It was pounding. I’d been out the night before with the girls, but I knew it wasn’t a hangover – I’d only had two pints. After another hour’s sleep and still not feeling any better, I hoped a shower might help. I was about to […]
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Happy Sunday, aka the laziest day of the week. You’re free to do whatever your heart desires, even if that means absolutely naff all. And for many of us, that means catching up on sleep, and getting in a good old lie in. Except, we bet we’re not the only ones that opened our eyes this morning, only to find […]
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Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally. Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states—and racial or ethnic groups within them—fared worse than others. The findings were laid out in […]
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Reviewers’ Notes Researchers have known that a lack of quality sleep can increase a person's risk of diabetes. What has remained a mystery, however, is why. Now, new findings from a team of sleep scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are closer to an answer. The researchers have uncovered a potential mechanism in humans that explains how and why […]
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A teenager who weighed 300 lb and was homeschooled because he was too big to fit in a classroom chair is among the patients Manal Habib, MD, has seen in her pediatric endocrinology practice. The boy, a social butterfly who hated isolation and blamed himself for his “poor choices,” turned out to have an MC4R mutation that interfered with proper metabolism […]
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The mucus in the airways is not as sticky, and inflammation in the lungs is significantly reduced: Triple combination therapy can achieve these positive, lasting effects in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Researchers from Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Center have just recently published their findings in the European Respiratory Journal. According to their research, this form of medication […]
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<img class="aligncenter" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2023/triple-combination-the.jpg" alt="Triple combination therapy brings lasting improvement in cystic fibrosis" title="Combination therapy involving three drugs – elexacaftor, tezacaftor, and ivacaftor – makes the mucus in the airways of cystic fibrosis patients (shown in green in above) less thick and sticky. This makes it easier for the lungs to clear bacteria, lidocaine nursing drug card and there are fewer […]
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Reviewers’ Notes People with low incomes who live in states that expanded Medicaid got more of the kind of health care that can keep them healthier in the long run, compared with similar people in non-expansion states, a new study finds. They also received more health care overall, specifically clinic visits. But they didn't crowd out patients covered by Medicare […]
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The stories of Asterix and his friend Obelix introduced us to a magic potion that comes in a small bottle and doesn’t taste good, but dramatically increases strength and fitness. Sports nutrition scientists have been trying to find or develop a compound with such characteristics for a long while. Many supplements have been proposed, but few actually work. The latest […]
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Whether you got preoccupied with the elaborate picnic spread or simply forgot your sunscreen bottle at home, the relentless summer sun doesn’t play any favourites. If your skin now resembles the scaly, flaky shed from reptiles, you have been left with the unkind souvenir of a sunny day in the form of sunburn. From soothing aloe vera to taking frequent […]
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