Gestational diabetes may predispose women to early-stage kidney damage, a precursor to chronic kidney disease,…
Drug Companies Selling More ‘Lifestyle,’ Less ‘Symptom’
Prescription drug commercials are getting longer and providing less factual information. A study published in the Annals of Family Medicine finds that the majority of these ads focus on lifestyle improvements made post-medication rather…
Altered Body Odor Indicates Malaria Even If Microscope Doesn’t
Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria infect far more people every year. An international team of researchers is working toward a way to…
ACP Tells Congress: Spending Cuts Would Hurt Public Health
In a letter to congressional leadership, the American College of Physicians (ACP) said that proposed spending cuts would damage children’s access to health coverage, medical innovation, and public health. The cuts are…
Scientists Develop Novel Technique to Study Brain Disease
A new tool developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has determined, for the first time, how two distinct sets of neurons in the mouse brain work together to control…
Study Upends Conventional View of Opioid Mechanism of Action
A new discovery shows that opioids used to treat pain, such as morphine and oxycodone, produce their effects by binding to receptors inside neurons, contrary to conventional wisdom that they acted only…
