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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Health funding in question in a speaker-less Congress

As House Republicans struggle — again — to decide who will lead them, the clock is ticking on a short-term spending bill that keeps the federal government running only until mid-November.

12 Oct 2023

Closed-loop insulin delivery improves pregnancy experiences for women with type 1 diabetes

A new study endorses closed-loop use in type 1 diabetes pregnancy and highlights how the technology can facilitate positive pregnancy experiences.

12 Oct 2023

Study reassures patients on safety of widely prescribed hypertension drug amlodipine

A new paper in the journal Function, published by Oxford Univetrsity Press, finds that a widely prescribed drug for treating hypertension, amlodipine, is not dangerous for patients, despite recent concerns from researchers and clinicians that taking amlodipine may have risks.

12 Oct 2023

Study suggests a potential strategy to combat aggressive brain tumors

A new study has unraveled a crucial link between how cancer cells cope with replication stress and the role of Taurine Upregulated Gene 1 (TUG1). By targeting TUG1 with a drug, the researchers were able to control brain tumor growth in mice, suggesting a potential strategy to combat aggressive brain tumors such as glioblastomas.

12 Oct 2023

Researchers call for urgent improvement in pain management for inflammatory arthritis patients

Researchers from Keele University's School of Medicine have found that analgesic medicines - commonly known as "painkillers" - are widely prescribed to people with inflammatory arthritis across England despite little research evidence that they improve pain for these patients, and studies showing they can cause serious side-effects.

12 Oct 2023

TTUHSC receives nearly $2.3 million in CPRIT grants to support cancer research

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) recently awarded grants to four researchers from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC).

12 Oct 2023

Clinic-based community program shows promise in addressing food insecurity and improving health

The FISH (Food Insecurity and its Sequalae on Health) Study, led by Tiffany Wesley Ardoin, MD, FACP, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans' Baton Rouge Regional Campus, reports that a clinic-based community program improved food security scores, healthy eating behaviors, and depression scores in a vulnerable, food-insecure population in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The findings are published in the MDPI journal, Nutrients.

12 Oct 2023

Study highlights ways to identify children at high risk of type 2 diabetes and prevention strategies

A new Journal of the Endocrine Society study highlights how to identify children at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes and strategies for prevention, such as anti-obesity or anti-diabetes medication and lifestyle changes.

12 Oct 2023

Cancer patients and oncologists support complementary therapies, but communication gap exists

Patients and oncologists are supportive of complementary therapies, such as nutrition counseling, exercise, massage, and mediation, for cancer treatment, according to a new survey conducted on behalf of the Healing Works Foundation.

12 Oct 2023

Beyond the gut: Crohn's disease's oral clues for timely diagnosis

The oral manifestations of CD.

12 Oct 2023

Does your gut microbiome play a role in therapeutic outcomes?

The role of the gut microbiome and its metabolites in altering the therapeutic outcomes

12 Oct 2023

Ensuring raw material quality in drug production and manufacturing

In this interview, Thermo Fisher Scientific discusses how to ensure the high quality of raw material in the drug production and manufacturing pipeline.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific – Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Solutions 12 Oct 2023

Accelerating drug discovery with analytical R&D solutions

In this interview, Thermo Fisher Scientific discusses how to accelerate drug discovery through analytical R&D.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific – Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Solutions 12 Oct 2023

Large language models in medicine: Current limitations and future scope

The potential and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI)-based large language models (LLMs) in medical research.

12 Oct 2023

Fighting tuberculosis: Breakthrough analysis reveals mixed strain infections

The drug-resistant genotypes in mixed strain infection (MSI) samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

12 Oct 2023

‘I’m so burned out’: Fighting to see a specialist amplified pain for Riverside County woman

Teresa Johnson can't escape the pain. It's as if she's getting pierced by needles all over her body, all at once. At night, she sometimes jolts out of sleep thinking bedbugs are attacking her. But it's just the unfailing pain — day in and day out.

12 Oct 2023

California bans controversial ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis

California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as "excited delirium," which a human rights activist hailed as a "watershed moment" that could make it harder for police to justify excessive force.

12 Oct 2023

Medical News

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Health funding in question in a speaker-less Congress

Closed-loop insulin delivery improves pregnancy experiences for women with type 1 diabetes

Study reassures patients on safety of widely prescribed hypertension drug amlodipine

Study suggests a potential strategy to combat aggressive brain tumors

Researchers call for urgent improvement in pain management for inflammatory arthritis patients

TTUHSC receives nearly $2.3 million in CPRIT grants to support cancer research

Clinic-based community program shows promise in addressing food insecurity and improving health

Study highlights ways to identify children at high risk of type 2 diabetes and prevention strategies

Cancer patients and oncologists support complementary therapies, but communication gap exists

Beyond the gut: Crohn's disease's oral clues for timely diagnosis

Does your gut microbiome play a role in therapeutic outcomes?

Ensuring raw material quality in drug production and manufacturing

Accelerating drug discovery with analytical R&D solutions

Large language models in medicine: Current limitations and future scope

Fighting tuberculosis: Breakthrough analysis reveals mixed strain infections

‘I’m so burned out’: Fighting to see a specialist amplified pain for Riverside County woman

California bans controversial ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis

PrEP, a key HIV prevention tool, isn’t reaching Black women

What is the recommended viewing distance for digital devices?

Is there an association between vitamin D deficiency and sepsis mortality?

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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