Obesity risk may pass from mothers to daughters
Women with obesity may share risk for the disease with their daughters, but not their sons, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Obesity is a common, serious and costly disease affecting nearly half of the adults and 20 percent of children in the United States. […]
New Video Shows Virginia Deputies Piling On Handcuffed Black Man Who Later Died
Irvo Otieno, 28, died after an encounter with law enforcement at a state hospital in Petersburg, Virginia. Ben Crump Law/Handout via REUTERS New surveillance footage from a Virginia state hospital shows at least 10 sheriff’s deputies and hospital workers piling on top of Irvo Otieno, a handcuffed Black man who died of asphyxia soon after. […]
Small Gains in Cardiorespiratory Fitness Track With Improved Longevity
As previously suspected, changes in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) were associated with reciprocal changes in mortality risk independent of other comorbidities or initial fitness status, a large observational study found. People who had serial exercise treadmill test assessments, with a median 6 years between initial and final tests, showed that changes in aerobic capacity over time […]
Molecular basis for alkaline taste: Working with fruit flies, research informs how other species might detect and avoid high-pH or alkaline foods
The sense of taste is among the first to come into contact with food before we ingest it, but whether animals can taste basic or alkaline food and how they do it remained unclear until now. A research group led by Yali Zhang, PhD, Principal Investigator at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, recently addressed this […]
Another Win for a JAK Inhibitor in Alopecia Areata
NEW ORLEANS — Patients with severe alopecia areata had dramatic hair regrowth at 6 months with an investigational Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, according to a study reported here. Almost 40% of patients had at least 80% scalp coverage with the higher of two doses of the JAK 1/2 inhibitor deuruxolitinib (CTP-543), including 35% who had […]
Sickle Cell Disease Patients Miss Out on Decades of Life
A cohort study of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with sickle cell disease (SCD) showed a life expectancy of just 52.6 years, well below that of the general population. And among SCD patients, survival varied by sex and insurance status. Men, individuals covered by Medicare for disabilities or end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and the dual-eligible were […]
Maternal Mortality Rose Significantly in 2021, CDC Says
Maternal mortality in the U.S. significantly increased in 2021 compared with the previous year, the CDC reported Thursday. A total of 1,205 women died of maternal causes in 2021, compared with 861 in 2020 and 754 in 2019, according to the report from Donna Hoyert, PhD, of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. The […]
20M People Worldwide Received HIV Treatment Through U.S.-Led Program
Approximately 20 million people with HIV in 54 countries have received antiretroviral therapy (ART) through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) as of September 2022, the CDC reported. This represents an increase of 300-fold from the 66,550 reported in September 2004, according to Helen M. Chun, MD, of the Division for Global […]
Diagnosis, Death in Pulmonary Fibrosis Seen Earlier in Black Patients
Black patients with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) consistently experienced poor outcomes associated with their disease at earlier ages than other groups, including hospitalization and death, according to U.S. registry data spanning nearly two decades. In an analysis from the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Registry (PFFR) from 2003 to 2021, a PF diagnosis in Black individuals occurred about […]
Stimwave Founder Arrested Over ‘Dummy’ Pain Implants, DOJ Says
The founder and former CEO of Stimwave was arrested and charged with creating and selling nerve stimulation devices with a non-functioning component that was implanted into chronic pain patients for profit, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. Laura Perryman’s alleged scheme, the DOJ said, resulted in the loss of millions of dollars for federal healthcare […]