Gaps remain in identifying, treating obesity despite new treatment options

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain By being undiagnosed or untreated, a significant fraction of people with obesity or overweight are not getting the recommended care, despite an increase in new treatment…

Transgender people seen in the ER much more likely than cisgender people to be admitted to hospital

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Transgender people who come to the emergency room for care tend to be sicker than cisgender people who are otherwise similar to them and are much…

Alterations in Alcohol Consumption Echo Depression Symptom Changes

Summary: A new study uncovers a correlation between changes in alcohol consumption and the ebb and flow of depression symptoms. People reporting lower alcohol use simultaneously noted reductions in depressive…

Closed-loop insulin delivery systems may improve blood sugar control in children with type 1 diabetes

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Closed-loop insulin delivery systems improve glucose control in children with type 1 diabetes without causing adverse effects, according to a study presented Saturday at ENDO 2023,…

Wider search needed to improve outcomes for eosinophilic food allergy, says study

Image created with BioRender. Credit: Cincinnati Children’s The good news: a monoclonal antibody treatment called benralizumab proved quite effective in a clinical trial at depleting the number of eosinophils found…

Adagrasib effective for patients with KRAS G12C-mutant lung cancer and untreated brain metastases

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found the KRAS G12C inhibitor adagrasib showed promising activity suppressing cancer growth not only within the…

AI Revolution: Simulating Human Behavior for Groundbreaking Social Science

Summary: A team of researchers predicts artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), could redefine social science research. They believe LLMs, trained on vast amounts of text data, can…

Silver phalera depicting Medusa among new finds at Roman Vindolanda |

Volunteer archaeologists excavating at Roman Vindolanda have uncovered a silver phalera depicting Medusa during this seasons excavations. Vindolanda (translated as “white field” or “white moor”) was a Roman auxiliary fort,…

2,500-year-old bronze artefacts found in eastern Poland |

A metal detectorist has uncovered a hoard of bronze artefacts during a survey in the village of Czernięcin Poduchowny, eastern Poland. The discovery was made by Łukasz Jabłoński, a licensed…

The lesser-known risk factors for heart disease

Most people know that the risk factors for heart disease are high blood pressure, smoking, raised cholesterol and being overweight. However, many people who have a heart attack do not…