Medical research
Gut bacteria can help to predict how the body will respond to fatty foods
Chemical signatures from gut bacteria which show up in urine can be used to predict how the body will respond to a 'junk' diet.
Jul 5, 2017
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Counting steps? Here's how many you need to boost health
Taking that often-cited 10,000 steps a day—or even slightly fewer—may indeed be enough to improve your health, a new study suggests.
Oct 17, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Unvaccinated people with heart problems up to nine times more likely to die, suffer serious COVID-19 complications
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have combined evidence from 110 previous COVID-19 studies and found that unvaccinated individuals who contract the virus when they already have high blood pressure, diabetes ...
May 4, 2022
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Medications
Enteric-coated aspirin found as effective, but not safer, than regular aspirin
Research led by the Ochsner Medical Center, Louisiana, has found no significant differences in effectiveness or safety outcomes between enteric-coated and uncoated aspirin in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
People at risk of future heart disease and stroke may be at greater risk for severe COVID-19
New research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23–26 April), suggests that people with elevated risk of developing a stroke or ...
Apr 14, 2022
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Medical research
Traffic officer protein governs speed of sugar/fat conversion pathway
Scientists in Texas and Pennsylvania have identified a protein sensor that restricts how much sugar and fat our cells convert into energy during periods of starvation. It is possible, the scientists say, that the sensor could ...
Apr 24, 2020
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Medications
Allergy to Plavix can be overcome: study
Allergies to Plavix, also know by its chemical name, Clopidogrel occur in about six percent of patients given the drug, vital for the prevention of life-threatening stent thrombosis after angioplasty and percutaneous coronary ...
Jan 16, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy linked with liver cancer
In a new study of more than 125,000 pregnant women in Sweden, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy found that the risk of hepatobiliary cancer and immune-mediated and cardiovascular diseases later in life is higher in women ...
Aug 12, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Certain pre-existing conditions may double, triple mortality risk for COVID-19
A large, international study of COVID-19 patients confirmed that cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, stroke and cancer can increase a patient's risk of dying from ...
Oct 8, 2020
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Diabetes
Common diabetes drug associated with risk of low levels of thyroid hormone
Metformin, a commonly used drug for treating type 2 diabetes, is linked to an increased risk of low thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels in patients with underactive thyroids (hypothyroidism), according to a study in ...
Sep 22, 2014
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