Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves severe mental illness
For people living with serious mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, standard treatment with antipsychotic medications can be a double-edged sword. While these drugs help regulate brain chemistry, they often cause metabolic side effects such as insulin resistance and obesity, which are distressing enough that many patients stop taking the medications. Now, a pilot […]
The Only Person Not Killed Or Hospitalized In This COVID Outbreak Was Vaccinated
Two people are dead after a recent COVID-19 outbreak in the IT department of a county government building in Manatee County, Florida ― leaving only one person, who was vaccinated, unscathed. Of the six known exposures that occurred around the same time, at least four people have reportedly been hospitalized and two have died. One of those people […]
Do sweeteners increase your appetite? New evidence from randomised controlled trial says no
Replacing sugar with artificial and natural sweeteners in foods does not make people hungrier — and also helps to reduce blood sugar levels, a significant new study has found. The double blind randomised controlled trial found that consuming food containing sweeteners produced a similar reduction in appetite sensations and appetite-related hormone responses as sugary foods […]
Medical Thoracoscopy Not the Only Good Way to Biopsy Complex Pleural Effusion
For the diagnosis of people with pleural effusion, an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) in diagnostic accuracy in some cases, a small randomized controlled trial found. IA-ANPB diagnosis had a sensitivity of just 69.7% with a negative likelihood ratio of 0.30 in patients with pleural effusion only, underperforming when […]
Colostrum Supplements Are All The Rage — But Read This Before Buying Them
Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost Colostrum is a popular supplement that people take for its purported gastrointestinal benefits, metabolism effects and more. With promises to speed up your metabolism, improve your hair and aid your gut health, it’s easy to see why colostrum supplements are the latest wellness fad. Colostrum is the early milk that mammals produce after […]
Financial Toxicity in Cancer: A Possible Solution
Topic: In recent years, more and more people have referred to the high cost of cancer care as “financial toxicity.” How did “expensive” or “costly” evolve into “toxic?” What factors contributed to the evolution? What can be done about it? Join MedPage Today and Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, president of the Levine Cancer Institute in […]
Is Your Seltzer Habit Hurting Your Gut Health? Doctors Have (Mostly) Good News
LOADINGERROR LOADING Many of us drink sparkling water every single day, and some people even throw back multiple cans of seltzer per day. But every once in a while, some information pops up on social media claiming that all that carbonation isn’t great for you ― particularly for your digestion and can cause issues like […]
Skin Test Detects Parkinson’s and Other Synucleinopathies
Skin biopsies detected phosphorylated alpha-synuclein in a high proportion of people with Parkinson’s disease and other synucleinopathies. Finding a reliable diagnostic biomarker for synucleinopathies is an urgent unmet need. Further research is needed in other clinical populations to validate these findings. Skin biopsies detected cutaneous phosphorylated alpha-synuclein (p-syn) in a high proportion of people who […]
Who Should Pay to Clean Up ‘Forever Chemicals’?
“Forever chemicals” are harming people and wildlife and should be removed from the soil and water, but who should pay to do that? Witnesses at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Wednesday didn’t agree on the answer. The chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are used in all kinds of household and […]
8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death
An analysis of over 20,000 U.S. adults found that people who limited their eating across less than 8 hours per day, a time-restricted eating plan, were more likely to die from cardiovascular disease compared to people who ate across 12-16 hours per day, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and […]