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For seven days and nights, 95,559 people wore a small tracker on their wrist and went about their lives. No sleep lab, no electrodes taped to their scalps, no overnight stay in a hospital room. Researchers at Peking University and…
If you had to guess which US profession carries the highest risk of dying from a radiation-related cancer, nuclear technologists would be a reasonable first guess. They work directly with radioactive material, after all. A new Harvard Medical School study,…
You can feel completely fine, pass a routine checkup with nothing flagged, and still be carrying something working against your heart for years. That something is chronic, low-grade inflammation, and a study out of the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences…
Body weight really does come down to two levers, as Anders Näär, the UC Berkeley professor who led this research, put it plainly: taking in fewer calories, or spending more energy. Nearly every weight-loss drug on the market pulls the…
Modulator drugs are now the mainstay of cystic fibrosis treatment, and they leave a smaller group of patients standing outside the door. A modulator works by nudging a faulty CFTR protein back into shape, which only helps if the cell…
Linus Pauling won two Nobel Prizes and spent much of his later career convinced that vitamin C could stop a cold before it started. That belief, promoted with real scientific credibility behind it in the 1970s, is the reason half…
The working assumption about GLP-1 drugs and liver health was simple: less body fat means less fat clogging the liver, so any liver improvement on semaglutide was really just weight loss showing up in a different organ. Daniel Drucker, the…
Six patients came into this trial having already tried and failed up to eight different rheumatoid arthritis treatments over the better part of a decade, three men and three women between 31 and 69, none of whom had found lasting…
Two cups of pure, pasteurized orange juice a day for two months was enough to quiet down genes tied to high blood pressure and inflammation, according to research now being pulled into a much broader picture of what orange juice…
HIV research has lived with a stubborn asymmetry for as long as antiretroviral therapy has existed. Modern drugs can suppress the virus to undetectable levels for an entire lifetime. Almost nothing can eliminate it once it has settled into the…
