EXCLUSIVE: Using snus or dipping tobacco may raise the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 30 PERCENT, study suggests Many people turn to smokeless tobacco because it is perceived to be safer But in this study, dipping tobacco users were more at risk of type 2 diabetes Last month a separate paper warned vaping does not help you quit smoking […]

All women, regardless of their risk profile, should consider prophylactic removal of the fallopian tubes at the same time as other pelvic surgery once they are finished having children, the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA) has advised. The recommendation, announced February 1, replaces the decades old focus on symptom awareness and early detection and follows “sobering and deeply disappointing” results […]

A new study validating the clinical utility of a proprietary pan-solid tumor predictive biomarker for anti-PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor monotherapy benefit—called Immunotherapy Response Score (IRS)—was published in Communications Medicine. Strata Oncology developed IRS using treatment data and comprehensive, clinically validated genomic and transcriptomic profiling of tumor tissue from the Strata Trial, an ongoing observational clinical trial evaluating the impact of molecular […]

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Scientists have never known precisely how much energy a cancerous tumor expends growing in the mammalian body. They hypothesized that it consumes a great deal of energy, churning through nutrients and putting healthy tissue—the heart, the liver, the pancreas—at a disadvantage as the metabolic system spreads the nutritive wealth. But in a new study, researchers from Princeton Chemistry and the […]

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers determine the association between diet, microbe-derived metabolites, such as fecal short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), and serological inflammatory cytokine levels with anxiety and depression among adult individuals with depression and obesity. Study: Associations between fecal short-chain fatty acids, plasma inflammatory cytokines, and dietary markers with depression and anxiety: post-hoc […]

Kathy Clark, manager of medical apprenticeships at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been selected as the Innovation in Human Resources honoree, as part of the St. Louis Business Journal’s annual HR Awards. The awards recognize individuals and organizations for influential work in human resources that benefits the St. Louis region. Clark received the award for her […]

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the recall of more than 10,000 children’s robes, as well as thousands of children’s pajamas and lounge pants for potential fire risk. All of the 100% polyester children’s robes were sold on Amazon.com between August 2020 through August 2022 and were recalled because the robes fail to meet the federal flammability standards for […]

University of Calgary researchers find diet-induced obesity is linked to a functional change in the brain. The study published in Nature Neuroscience finds that in obese mice there is a reduction in function of the brain’s brake signal located in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex. This region of the brain is involved in decision making about rewards and whether action should […]

Health Secretary Steve Barclay warns never-ending NHS strikes are having a terrible impact on patients – as unions behind today’s biggest EVER walk-out threaten to continue chaos ‘for as long as it takes’ in hunt for better pay deal Up to 30,000 nurses are staging walkouts at 73 NHS trusts across England 11,500 ambulance staff also walking out in England […]