Champagne cork related eye injuries can be a substantial threat to eye health
Be careful this holiday season, warn researchers in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. Eye injuries while opening bottles of fizz can be significant and easily avoided.
The Celebrity Push to Bring Type 1 Diabetes Screening into the Mainstream
In the last two months, the diabetes community has witnessed something new: a major campaign encouraging people to get screened for the antibodies that cause type 1 diabetes. It’s called…
Deciphering how amino acids control cell growth and autophagy in yeast
Amino acids are the building blocks of life. We obtain them from the food we eat, and the body uses them to make proteins, which in turn are used for…
The year in opioid settlements: 5 things you need to know
This year, about $1.5 billion has landed in state and local government coffers from court settlements made with more than a dozen companies that manufactured, sold, or distributed prescription painkillers…
Inside the Pentagon’s painfully slow effort to clean up decades of PFAS contamination
Oscoda, Michigan, has the distinction as the first community where "forever chemicals" were found seeping from a military installation into the surrounding community.
Deep flaws in FDA oversight of medical devices, and patient harm, exposed in lawsuits and records
Living with diabetes, Carlton "PeeWee" Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream.
UKHSA and ONS publish latest Winter CIS data
The Winter CIS was launched jointly by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in November 2023 to deliver real-time prevalence and positivity data…
Study points to senolytic drugs as potential weapon against lung emphysema
A new research paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 15, Issue 23, entitled, "Benidipine calcium channel blocker…
Football linked to more brain damage beyond white matter marks
Signs of injury to the brain's white matter called white matter hyperintensities, as seen on brain scans, may be tied more strongly to vascular risk factors, brain shrinkage, and other…
Protein “on/off switch” controls breast cancer spread and immunotherapy response
Despite their promise, immunotherapies fail to treat many cancers, including over 80% of some of the most advanced breast cancers.