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How to curb your appetite without weight-loss medication
The body’s appetite is regulated by a complex interaction involving the brain, gut, blood sugar and various hormones.Here are some tips that, according to experts and research described by...
Diseases
What your hair texture and loss can reveal about your thyroid health
A 2023 review links diffuse shedding and texture changes to thyroid dysfunction.
Diseases
Researchers test new method against brain damage after stroke – and it works
Researchers have investigated a new method designed to help the brain recover after a stroke.
Diseases
Walking more steps a day may control asthma as well as the gym
A new trial in moderate-to-severe asthma matched simple walking against supervised gym sessions.
Diseases
How to know when your child is too sick for school
It can be difficult to know when a sick child should stay home from school and when they...
Body
How to curb your appetite without weight-loss medication
The body’s appetite is regulated by a complex interaction involving the brain, gut, blood sugar and various hormones.Here are some tips that, according to experts and research described by...
Diseases
What your hair texture and loss can reveal about your thyroid health
A 2023 review links diffuse shedding and texture changes to thyroid dysfunction.
Diseases
Researchers test new method against brain damage after stroke – and it works
Researchers have investigated a new method designed to help the brain recover after a stroke.
Diseases
Walking more steps a day may control asthma as well as the gym
A new trial in moderate-to-severe asthma matched simple walking against supervised gym sessions.
The FDA just cleared a blood test for Alzheimer’s
A simple blood draw can now help doctors check for the plaques tied to Alzheimer's.
Scientists may have found why statins cause muscle pain, and how to prevent it
A McMaster study identifies the metabolic-immune loop behind statin myopathy, and how to block it.
A pig kidney kept him alive for 271 days – now he has a human one
A patient's 271 days on a genetically modified pig kidney is the longest yet documented.
The immune cell that may explain why some people live past 110
A new study points to a rare killer immune cell that surges with extreme age.
Why autism diagnoses in girls are rising 19% a year – and what took so long
A new US study points to what is really driving the recent rise in diagnoses.
Weight-loss drugs may slow cancer from spreading in the body, large data shows
Data from more than 12,000 cancer patients points to a new benefit of GLP-1 drugs.