Overweight & Obesity
Type 2 diabetes tablet promotes weight loss
(Medical Xpress)—A new drug for type 2 diabetes, involving research at Aston University is being launched as a once-daily tablet for adults with the condition.
Dec 6, 2012
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News tagged with blood disorders
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nutrition may play a key role in early psychosis treatment
Early psychosis is associated with nutritional deficiencies, new research from Australia has found, potentially presenting new avenues for improving health among the millions of people affected worldwide.
Nov 30, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Schizophrenics' blood has more genetic material from microbes
The blood of schizophrenia patients features genetic material from more types of microorganisms than that of people without the debilitating mental illness, research at Oregon State University has found.
May 22, 2018
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Immunology
Scientists discover how gene mutation triggers immune disease
Scientists discovered how a gene mutation affects T cell function to promote immune disorders and then tested a treatment based on the discovery—successfully fixing donated immune cells from a 16-year-old boy with an abnormally ...
Jan 30, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Gene-editing treatment shows promise for sickle cell disease
Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies testing gene editing for painful, inherited blood disorders that plague millions worldwide, especially Black people.
Dec 5, 2020
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Health
Sleep disorders tally $94.9 billion in health care costs each year
Sleep disorders are associated with significantly higher rates of health care utilization, conservatively placing an additional $94.9 billion in costs each year to the United States health care system, according to a new ...
May 7, 2021
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Medical research
New research finds pathogenic connection between autoimmune disorders and cancer
Autoimmune disorders may share certain pathogenic mechanisms with cancer, according to a new report by George Washington University (GW) researcher Linda Kusner, Ph.D., published in PLOS ONE on July 22.
Jul 22, 2014
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Medical research
Meet the alpacas that could cure autism, Alzheimer's and cancer
Alpacas aren't the typical animals that drivers spot as they wind their way through rural Tennessee, but there's a happy herd of them outside Waverly, where they eat the finest pellets, walk up and down a scenic hill and ...
Aug 14, 2019
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Neuroscience
MRI imaging method captures brain glucose metabolism without administering radioactive substances
Metabolic disorders play a central role in many common conditions, including Alzheimer's, depression, diabetes and cancer, which call for reliable as well as non-invasive diagnostic procedures. Until now, radioactive substances ...
Apr 28, 2023
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Attention deficit disorders
Neuromarker for ADHD could improve diagnosis of disorder
Yale researchers identified differences in brain structure and activity in children with ADHD that could serve as a more objective diagnostic tool in the future
Nov 23, 2022
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