Available for over a year Extreme heat is becoming more common around the world. From Europe to India, record-breaking heatwaves are affecting millions of people – but what is all that heat actually doing to our bodies? Brain fog, poor sleep, heat exhaustion and heatstroke are just some of the …

[ Researchers discovered that a potential drug developed at Michigan Medicine treats severe fatty liver disease by improving gut health, according to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Source link

[ People who’ve been severely injured in an accident might have a lower risk of death if doctors pump them full of vitamin C, a new evidence review says. High doses of intravenous (IV) vitamin C appear to reduce the risk of death and sepsis in trauma patients, researchers reported …

The public will be asked who should receive social care and how it should be paid for as part of a review into the system. Baroness Louise Casey, who is leading a commission into adult social care in England, described the system to the BBC’s Radio Four Today programme as …

[ A new Kimberley-based study is helping Aboriginal people living with diabetes-related foot disease (DFD) by identifying ways to improve culturally safe care. Source link

[ Credit: CC0 Public Domain One of the uncomfortable truths about multiple sclerosis is that the part of the brain likely to reveal the most about the disease and how a patient will be affected has been mostly invisible to clinicians. It’s long been known that the gray matter of …

Available for over a year An experimental treatment to “reset” the immune systems of people with autoimmune disease is showing transformative results in early trials. James visits the NIHR Clinical Research Facility in Manchester to meet Kathy. She was diagnosed with lupus just after the birth of her baby and …

[ There is a bidirectional association between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and certain neurological conditions, according to a study published online June 17 in Neurology. Carrie Peltz, Ph.D., from the Northern California Institute for Research and Education in San Francisco, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study involving veterans age …

[ Suspended lanterns in lagoon for the early stage growth (i.e. prefattening) of oysters. Credit: Giulia Trinchera Ongoing research provides evidence that readily available and sustainable oyster meat extract may have powerful anti-inflammatory effects on human intestinal cells. Pacific oysters (Carssostrea gigas) are the most widely farmed saltwater bivalve mollusk …

[ For patients with clear-cell renal cell carcinoma, pembrolizumab-belzutifan yields significantly higher disease-free survival, according to a study published in the July 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Toni K. Choueiri, M.D., from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues randomly assigned participants with resected clear-cell …

[ A new study finds public specialized gambling addiction treatment services are underused in Quebec, pointing to a need to better reach people with a gambling disorder. Researchers at McGill University and the Douglas Research Center followed more than 2,300 people with a gambling disorder over 13 years. Despite free …

After her medical diagnosis three years ago, Morgan, 62, set up The Autistic Woman website through which she collated information and stories. “I realised we are often invisible,” she says. “We hide how we are because we are conditioned by society to blend in.” Her memoir Mothertongue, in which she …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In 2013, Angelina Jolie inspired a wave of testing for pathogenic variants of the gene BRCA1 by announcing that she carried a variant that left her at such high risk of breast cancer that she chose a preventive mastectomy. Many people with similar gene variants …

[ High-dose docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation does not yield a change in brain volume or cognitive performance over 24 months, according to a study published online June 18 in eBioMedicine. Source link

[ Credit: Pixabay from Pexels A new study led by the University of Sheffield and published in BMJ Open has found that up to one-third of A&E attendances and two-fifths of acute admissions could potentially be managed through same-day emergency care (SDEC) and community settings—keeping patients safe and treated without …

[ WHO member states kicked off one more attempt at finalizing the missing piece of the pandemic treaty on Monday, with the Ebola outbreak injecting a fresh sense of urgency. Source link

[ Shoppers in California will no longer see “sell by” dates on their groceries. A first-in-the-nation law that took effect July 1 bans “sell by” labels, which lawmakers say tell retailers how long to display products but say nothing about whether food is safe to eat, reports the Associated Press. …

[ Researchers studying the impact of cocaine in mice have found that just one exposure to the drug can create changes in brain cells that persist for at least two weeks. Their findings were presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2026. Source link

[ by Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph’s Health Care London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In health care, it is often the smallest moments that carry the greatest meaning—a quiet conversation with a patient, a shared reflection with colleagues, or a hand held in silence. These brief yet powerful connections, …

[ A Canadian study led by University of Toronto researcher Harvey Anderson is offering new evidence in support of consuming full-fat dairy. The findings, published recently in the Journal of Nutrition, demonstrate that three daily servings of full-fat dairy can be incorporated into a person’s diet without negatively affecting their …