Overweight & Obesity

Sister hormone of GLP-1 could lead to better weight-loss drugs

Much like the Cold War space race, the world's pharmaceutical giants are currently scrambling to produce the best weight-loss drug. They all want to be the first to explore the nooks and crannies of the body in order to be ...

Medical economics

A call for renaming clinical research partnerships

In a recently published opinion piece in BMJ Open, "Rhetoric of Research: A Call for Renaming the Clinical Research Partnership," authors from Penn Nursing and Georgetown University School of Nursing, present a compelling ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Mental disorders may spread in young people's social networks

Using population-wide registry data, researchers from the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Manchester investigated whether mental disorders ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Intriguing food reflex discovered with a smartphone

Psychologist Hilmar Zech found that overweight people are actually more attracted to food pictures after eating than before. He did so using an old research method that he revamped for use on smartphones. Zech will defend ...

Cardiology

Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk

Changes in the gut microbiome have been implicated in a range of diseases including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and inflammatory bowel disease. Now, a team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard along with ...

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