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Newswise — LOS ANGELES — Why do some people who consume a few glasses of alcohol a day develop advanced liver disease while others who drink the same amount don’t? The answer may lie in three common underlying medical conditions, according to a new study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Keck Medicine of…
When Dr. C. Michael Gibson, a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School, goes to heart disease meetings, he can’t help noticing a change. “We will sit around at dinner and halfway through the meal, we will simultaneously push our plates away,” Dr. Gibson said. “We look at each other and laugh and say, ‘You, too?’” They…
BYLINE: Serena Crawford A Q&A with Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS It is commonly known that having type 2 diabetes can lead to the development of various health conditions, including heart disease, neuropathy, kidney disease, and eye disease. Not as well-known is the association between type 2 diabetes and infection, according to Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS, who…
Newswise — Drinking ketones improves heart health, a new small-scale study from the University of Portsmouth has found. This is the first time people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) have been given a drink with ketone esters – a supplement that is meant to plunge your system into ketosis – to monitor the effect on…
Packages of weight loss drugs Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro. Picture Alliance | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Most people quit a highly popular class of weight loss and diabetes drugs…
Newswise — BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Millions of people with diabetes track their glucose levels daily using finger-stick devices that draw and analyze their blood. But what if they could monitor it with just a sweat sensor? That’s the idea behind new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York that could revolutionize diabetes management by…
Newswise — Demand for weight-loss medications sold under brand names such as Ozempic and Wegovy continues to surge, with a recent study reporting one in eight Americans has taken or is currently using the drugs to treat diabetes, heart disease or obesity. Formally, these drugs are known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) and include…
BYLINE: Ananya Sen Newswise — About 1 in 3 adults in the United States have prediabetes, a condition where blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Affecting 98 million adults, prediabetes can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. While it can…
Among both men and women, drinking just one alcoholic beverage a day increases the risk of liver cirrhosis, esophageal cancer, oral cancer and injuries of various kinds, according to a federal analysis issued on Tuesday. Women face a higher risk of developing liver cancer even at this modest level of drinking. Drinking two drinks a…
Newswise — DALLAS – Jan. 06, 2025 – Obese mice whose fat cells were genetically altered to produce an increased amount of the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor (GIPR) lost more than a third of their body weight through a mechanism that burns energy, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report in a new study. Published in Cell Metabolism,…
