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Medical Xpress / More than a quarter of adults worldwide could benefit from GLP-1 medications for weight loss, study finds
The worldwide prevalence of obesity has more than doubled in the last three decades, bringing with it an increase in weight-related diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancers. This public health crisis strains ...
Medical Xpress / Suppressing postoperative inflammation may prolong pain
Taking anti-inflammatory drugs after surgery is fairly standard protocol. But a new study from researchers at Michigan State University suggests this approach may be backfiring and that blocking inflammation during this critical ...
Medical Xpress / Easy-to-use tool can identify high- and low-risk metastatic prostate cancer patients earlier
A new study published in Nature Communications provides a framework for researching whether earlier, model-guided treatment intensification can meaningfully improve survival for patients with aggressive disease.
Medical Xpress / Breastfeeding may lower moms' later life depression/anxiety risks for up to 10 years after pregnancy
Breastfeeding may lower mothers' later life risks of depression and anxiety for up to 10 years after pregnancy, suggest the findings of a small observational study, published in the open access journal BMJ Open.
Medical Xpress / Electric cars won't fix sitting: The health costs of designing cities around cars
Commuters feel this in their bones—time spent in traffic is bad for your health.
Medical Xpress / Interpersonal and self-inflicted violence linked to outdoor temperature spikes
Warming temperatures are connected to increases in violence-related hospital visits—including both interpersonal and self-inflicted violence—according to a new analysis of 14 years of Medicaid claims data.
Medical Xpress / A new approach to assessing patients with disorders of consciousness
In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To better diagnose them and predict their recovery potential, Dragana Manasova, Jacobo Sitt, and their colleagues ...
Medical Xpress / Radiotracers could improve choice of bladder cancer therapies
A research team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has developed a radiopharmaceutical molecule marker that can visualize tumors that carry the cell surface protein Nectin-4. This primarily occurs in the body ...
Medical Xpress / Colonoscopy bowel prep temporarily weakens gut defenses against infection, study finds
New preclinical research suggests that bowel preparation procedures for colonoscopies may temporarily alter gut balance, culminating in unappreciated effects in patients with compromised gastrointestinal health.
Medical Xpress / Hidden blood mutations linked to higher heart disease risk after cancer treatment
About one in five patients with cancer who undergo genetic testing are incidentally found to have mutations in their blood called clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP). A study by Vanderbilt Health researchers ...
Medical Xpress / Kids with fractures and sprains don't need oral opioids for their pain, researchers find
Kids with broken or sprained limbs don't need oral opioids to treat their pain, according to newly published findings from a cross-Canada study by pediatric emergency researchers. The study is published in JAMA.
Medical Xpress / COVID-19 still claims more than 100,000 US lives each year
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers report national estimates of 43.6 million COVID-19-associated illnesses and 101,300 deaths in the US during October 2022 to September 2023, plus 33.0 million illnesses ...
