How coffee could cut your risk of skin cancer: The Gut Health Guru DR MEGAN ROSSI Are you the type who feels jittery after the caffeine hit of a single espresso — or do you feel unaffected no matter how many coffees you line up? There are multiple reasons why we all react to caffeine differently. Chief among them is […]

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Scientists have found a new way to predict which patients with the blood cancer myeloma will benefit the most from a treatment often used to help keep the disease from coming back after a stem cell transplant. For people with certain high-risk genetic features in their cancer cells, the drug, called lenalidomide, cut their risk of seeing their cancer progress […]

The prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) is 6.99 percent in pediatric type 2 diabetes (T2D) and increases with time since diagnosis, according to a meta-analysis published online March 17 in JAMA Network Open. Milena Cioana, from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues estimated the global prevalence of DR in pediatric T2D in a systematic review and meta-analysis. The […]

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Chronic kidney disease is linked to the formation of mineral deposits on blood vessel walls, known as "calcification", causing cardiovascular disease. Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs)-;small, enclosed structures outside cells-;can transmit signaling molecules between cells, but their biological roles are not fully understood. Now, "malicious" sEVs originating from chronic kidney disease have been shown to play a role in blood vessel […]

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(Reuters) – Novo Nordisk’s best-selling diabetes treatment drug Ozempic is back on the shelves in the United States after months of shortage, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website showed on Friday. The main active ingredient in Ozempic is semaglutide, also the key ingredient in Novo’s obesity drug Wegovy, which has been seeing supply shortage due to high demand. […]

A new technique that combines highly detailed, real-time images of inside the body with a type of infrared light has, for the first time, been used during surgery to differentiate between cancerous tumors and healthy tissue. The pioneering technique, demonstrated in mice, has been developed by engineers at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) at UCL and […]