TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Growing numbers of young people are expressing a sense of a “mismatch” between the gender on their birth certificate and the one that they “feel” inside, particularly those assigned female at birth. And the age when these people are seeking help and gender-affirmingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — An experimental drug appears to outperform the trendy medications Wegovy and Ozempic for both weight loss and diabetes control, a pair of early clinical trials shows. Retatrutide helped people with obesity drop about one-quarter of their starting weight, on average, during 48 weeksContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — At school dismissal one sunny October day in Pineville, Louisiana, then-9-year-old Anniston Fairbanks was headed toward her ride home when she realized she’d left her hoodie in her classroom. She ran back inside to retrieve it. When Anniston returned to theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A trendy form of intermittent fasting does seem to help people lose some weight — though it may be no better than old-fashioned calorie counting, a new clinical trial suggests. Researchers found that the tactic — called time-restricted eating — helped people withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Public health officials are warning doctors, especially those in southern states, to be on the lookout for local spread of malaria after five cases have been reported in the United States in the past two months. This is the first time there hasContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Dr. Anthony Fauci, best known for his public health leadership during the pandemic, will become a professor at Georgetown University starting next week. Fauci will work in both the Division of Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine and at the McCourt SchoolContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Gastric bypass surgery is a potential long-term cure for type 2 diabetes, especially if the procedure is performed before the disease progresses, a new study argues. Among a large group of obese people with type 2 diabetes, about half achieved remission for anContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Having even a mild COVID-19 infection could trigger a months-long drop in sperm, a new study finds. Researchers found both lower sperm concentrations and fewer sperm that were able to swim when studying men an average of 100 days after COVID-19 infection, whichContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Flare-ups of the autoimmune condition lupus may be caused by growth of a particular gut bacteria, researchers say. This knowledge could potentially lead to new and more successful treatments to prevent these flares, they added. These recurrent bouts of systemic lupus erythematosus, whereContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Could a treatment combo that improves the odds against melanoma for humans work in dogs? Yes, claims a new study that found radiotherapy followed by immunotherapy extended survival in canine melanoma patients. Melanomas in dogs are similar to human melanomas. An effective treatmentContinue Reading