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Medical Xpress / Weight loss drugs risk widening health inequalities, warn researchers
Drugs such as semaglutide (Wegovy/Ozempic) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro) are transforming obesity treatment, but without affordable, healthy food and appropriate support, they could widen health inequalities in the UK, according ...
Medical Xpress / The potential problems of living longer: Q&A
Many scientists are trying to determine just how much medical intervention can lengthen the human lifespan. But Daniel Promislow, senior scientist and scientific advisor at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center ...
Medical Xpress / Weight loss surgery boosts household independence for 20 years, data show
People who undergo bariatric surgery and see substantial weight loss are better able to cope with household tasks such as cleaning, laundry, and grocery shopping. The improvements are also sustained over a long time, according ...
Medical Xpress / When to rescue food and when to chuck it out, according to a nutritionist
Got some brown bananas on the counter, or soggy salad in the fridge? If so, you're not alone. Research shows on average, Australian households waste about 30% of the food we buy—or 2.5 million tons each year.
Phys.org / Mediating students' empathy development through play
Playing a card game can support empathy development in college classrooms, according to a new study led by researchers in Penn State University Libraries' Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT).
Medical Xpress / Screening with a multi-cancer blood test reduced the most advanced cancers
A large-scale trial looking into the use of a blood test to see if it can help the NHS detect cancer early has reported a substantial reduction in the most advanced cancers. The NHS Galleri trial aimed to see if using the ...
Tech Xplore / Bridges may get round-the-clock crack tracking from new 32-channel acoustic system
In its 2022 condition assessment, the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) classified 8,000 highway bridges as requiring rehabilitation. In other words, it is time to start continuously monitoring Germany's ...
Medical Xpress / Teamwork, technology streamline feeding tube placement
Inova, the leading nonprofit health system in the Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, developed a novel dietitian-led program for the bedside placement of feeding tubes for critically ill patients. The ...
Phys.org / Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can ...
Medical Xpress / Can AI beat breast cancer?
An artificial intelligence (AI) system that combines breast cancer tissue images with molecular marker data achieves high accuracy in diagnosis, tumor classification, and survival prediction. Details of the research are reported ...
Phys.org / A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the universe's rarest explosions
Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic explosion thought to completely destroy some of the most massive stars in the universe, leaving ...
Phys.org / Listening to the sun reveals previously hidden changes to solar cycle
Internal changes due to the sun's "active biorhythm" have become increasingly "skin-deep" over the past four solar activity cycles, according to a new study.
