1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (657+ words) GLP-1 weight loss drugs may be linked to a higher risk of depression and suicidal thoughts, especially in people who regain the weight they lost after using them, a new study from South Korea suggests. Researchers analyzed mental health data…...

18+ hour, 55+ min ago   (280+ words) Every big family has one obese person. Science explains why through genetics, shared environment, and a survival strategy....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (631+ words) Deep inside the intervertebral disc — the resilient cushion that sits between the vertebrae of the spine — a small population of cells works quietly for decades to keep the tissue functional....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (55+ words) Intracerebral hemorrhage is the deadliest and most disabling form of stroke, yet some of its cruelest consequences unfold quietly, months or even years after the initial bleed. Survivors frequently develop depression, anxiety, apathy, cognitive impairment, fatigue, and disrupted sleep, symptoms…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (636+ words) A rare and devastating genetic condition known as Diarrhea-9 has long frustrated scientists trying to understand exactly how it destroys the newborn intestine....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (652+ words) Type 2 diabetes has long been viewed as a disease of middle and later life, but a growing body of evidence suggests that the patients developing it youngest may also be the ones facing the most aggressive complications. A new retrospective…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (704+ words) Every cell in the body carries a hidden biography. Long before a researcher harvests a tissue and sequences its contents, that cell has been bombarded by hormones, growth factors, cytokines and stress signals, and its current state is the accumulated…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (90+ words) For decades, the vast stretches of the human genome that do not encode proteins were dismissed as evolutionary baggage, a biological wasteland dismissed with the shorthand of “junk DNA.” A comprehensive new review published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology makes…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (572+ words) A single protein may help explain why some papillary thyroid carcinomas grow more aggressively and shrug off chemotherapy, according to a new study published in Cancer Cell International....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (55+ words) A short but pointed methodological commentary published in the Journal of Medical Systems is challenging how health services researchers interpret one of the more persistent questions in digital health: whether the characteristics of a hospital’s health information system vendor actually…...