High fat diet causes obesity and impairs systemic metabolism, regardless of dietary fat source. Credit: Nature Metabolism (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42255-025-01330-w Obesity elevates the risk of at least 13 major cancers,…
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Black Death offers window into how childhood malnutrition affects adult health
Credit: Aaron Johnson from Pexels The Black Death arrived on the shores of England in May 1348 and, in less than two years, spread throughout the country, killing an estimated…
California looked to them to close health disparities, then it backpedaled
by Vanessa G. Sánchez Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Fortina Hernández is called “the one who knows it all.” For more than two decades, the community health worker has supported hundreds…
Higher ultra processed food intake linked to increased lung cancer risk
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A higher intake of ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to an increased risk of lung cancer, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax. Further research…
Low rates of isolated locoregional recurrence seen in young women with breast cancer
For women diagnosed with breast cancer at age 40 years or younger, the risk for isolated locoregional recurrence (LRR) is relatively low, according to a study published online July 23…
Medicaid cuts are likely to worsen mental health care in rural America
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Across the nation, Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health care, and in rural America, residents disproportionately rely on the public insurance program. But…
Offering self-collection kits at GP appointments could prevent 1,000 women a year from developing cervical cancer
Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels Women who are overdue for cervical cancer screening are most likely to participate in screening when a self-sampling kit is offered by a health care…
Corticosteroids not superior to placebo for add-on treatment of bacterial keratitis
For the treatment of bacterial keratitis, adjunctive corticosteroids are not superior to placebo and adjunctive corneal cross-linking (CXL) is associated with increased scar size, according to a study published online…
Sex differences affect efficacy of opioid overdose treatment, whole-body PET study reveals
Whole-body [11C] carfentanil PET imaging at baseline (left side of panel) and then following naloxone (middle panel) shows μ-opioid receptor (MOR) in the brain (color) and throughout the body. Weight…
Dementia takes 3.5 years to diagnose after symptoms begin
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People with dementia are diagnosed an average of 3.5 years after symptoms are first noticed, or even longer (4.1 years) for those with early-onset dementia, finds…
