Blindness is the most feared complication faced by people with type 2 diabetes and the one I deal with at work every day. Diabetes is now the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults in Au… [+2560 chars]
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. It's been an unusual 2022 influenza season in the southern hemisphere. Early weekly surges in lab… [+7477 chars]
Human sunscreen testing should be phased out because it poses health risks and ethical problems, experts say. Australian scientists are backing the development of new, "safer" reproducible human-fre… [+1885 chars]
New research published in Nutrients provides evidence that prunes are a prebiotic food that reverses bone loss in mice. The study investigators found that carbohydrates and polyphenols in prunes act … [+3618 chars]
A multisite research team from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Wake Forest University has discovered that brain inflammation may link Alzheimer's disease… [+3913 chars]
Health authorities have detected the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Queensland on Monday. The public health risk is considered very low. The positive case is currently self-isolating at home … [+477 chars]
A study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital and collaborating institutions is the first to associate neur… [+6537 chars]
The monkeypox virus has officially made it to the ACT after two confirmed cases were announced on Wednesday. What does this mean for the community and should there be concern? What is it and where … [+5713 chars]
In a recent study published in Vaccines, researchers reported that Pfizer’s BNT162b2 vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) does not affect the honeymoon phase o… [+5165 chars]
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is an untoward natural death from a cause of cardiac origin in a patient without any preceding disease that would result in a quick fatality within a brief period, often on… [+27739 chars]
People who have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a buildup of fat cells in the liver, may have a higher risk of dementia, according to a new study published in the July 13, 2022, online issue of Ne… [+3262 chars]
The Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded $4.2 million over five years to Mount Sinai researchers establishing a Proteogenomic Data Analysis… [+1285 chars]
