Month: February 2025

Adding a personalized mRNA vaccine to standard treatment could offer new hope for pancreatic cancer patients, a small yet promising study from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center…Read More

For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are associated with a reduced risk for moderate or severe COPD exacerbations compared with dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (DPP-4is), according to a study published online Feb…Read More

Higher calcium intake is associated with reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) risk across tumor sites and calcium sources, according to a study published online Feb. 17 in JAMA Network Open…Read More

One of the NBA’s most exciting rising stars will spend the rest of the 2024–2025 season on the bench…Read More

Got milk? It turns out, plain cow’s milk, water and a bit of veggie juice are still the best drink choices for kids and teens…Read More

TOPLINE: Vegetarian/vegan diets can be nutritionally adequate and offer long-term health benefits, guidance from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics said. METHODOLOGY: Expert panel members and methodologists from the academy’s Evidence Analysis Center created research questions and eligibility criteria and systematically identified and summarized existing evidence on vegetarian and vegan dietary patterns and health outcomes […]

TOPLINE: A new study found that patients with advanced and nonadvanced adenomas found on colonoscopy had a significantly higher risk for colorectal cancer (CRC) than those with no adenomas. Advanced adenomas were also associated with significantly higher risks for CRC-related and all-cause mortality over 20 years whereas nonadvanced adenomas had no significant impact on mortality […]

TOPLINE: Antibiotic use does not appear to be associated with microscopic colitis (MC), despite presenting with similar symptoms of watery, non-bloody diarrhea.  METHODOLOGY: MC, a change in the microbiome characterized by watery, non-bloody diarrhea, can significantly worsen a patient’s quality of life; antibiotic treatment may induce similar symptoms…Read More

TOPLINE: The endogenous circadian system and behavioral sleep/wake cycle could independently influence caloric intake in adolescents, with the circadian cycle of caloric intake being delayed and blunted in those with overweight or obesity. Youths with obesity consumed more calories later in both the circadian evening and wake episode than did those with a healthy weight…Read […]

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms. She’s desperate for information, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a critical source of urgent analyses of the flu and other public health […]