Thiazolidinediones (TZDs) enhance insulin activity and reverse insulin resistance, a common characteristic of type 2 diabetes.1 These agents are ligands for peroxisomal proliferator-activated recepto… [+11383 chars]
Results showed a combination of exercise therapy and ultrasonography-guided corticosteroid injection was associated with improved outcomes in patients with long-standing Achilles tendinopathy. Finn … [+1356 chars]
Since antibiotics were discovered over a century ago, theyve improved our lives dramatically. Research suggests theyve even extended average human life expectancy by more than 20 years. But if were n… [+5789 chars]
A masked pedestrian in Australia, where people have been warned that they are at risk of catching SARS-CoV-2 again four weeks after a first coronavirus infection.Credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Na… [+4111 chars]
Geneva The World Health Organization is calling for action to stem the growing spread of deadly infections such as monkeypox and Ebola between animals and humans in Africa. A new WHO analysis finds… [+2244 chars]
Humans are famously social animals. But they are not alone in their tendency to team up with other individuals of the same species (conspecifics) to reach their goals. In fact, herds of mammals, floc… [+4570 chars]
Men who have sex with men are the most affected by monkeypox and the head of Aotearoa's Burnett Foundation says he's "most worried" about the stigma attached. With around 50 countries reporting case… [+2836 chars]
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, and their collaborators have discovered that people of European and African ancestries who were hospitalized… [+1678 chars]
All patients were diagnosed according to the Rome IV criteria for chronic constipation, characterized by long-standing constipation, poor response to medication, and insufficiency of spontaneous bowe… [+25206 chars]
Data collected by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy suggest that Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, a bacterial spec… [+5121 chars]
People with extreme nearsightedness, or myopia, may experience myopic macular degeneration (MMD). This condition can lead to a gradual decrease in central vision. In people with myopia, the distanc… [+5432 chars]
Like other industries before it, health care has embraced technology and the resulting trends that have emerged. Many of these trends combine elements of our digital and physical worlds, creating hig… [+6063 chars]