Electrolytes can help detect eating disorders

By monitoring electrolyte levels researchers discovered eating disorders more than a year before a diagnosis and...

Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fra

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of shuttered blood testing company Theranos, was sentenced to 135 months, or 11 1/4...

Research suggests blinding eye disease linked with heart problems

Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the United...

Researchers identify protein that contributes to neurotoxicity

Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have identified a protein that interacts and enhances the...

Specific immune cells cause myocarditis in cancer patients: Study

In a new study, researchers from UC San Francisco and Vanderbilt University Medical Center identified particular...

Researchers find new target for Alzheimer's therapies

The protein medin is deposited in the blood vessels of the brains of Alzheimer's patients along with the protein...

Research: Potential threat to heart health from extreme weather

An analysis of nearly 2.3 million Europeans has found detrimental associations between cold weather and deaths from...

Targeting enzyme could alleviate muscle wasting

Targeting a specific enzyme in the muscle could help cancer patients preserve muscle mass and potentially prolong...

Antibiotic-resistant microbes in gut make C. difficile infectious

Clostridioides difficile, often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that causes severe intestinal...

Researchers discover new biomarker for severe Covid 19

Patients with acute COVID-19 infection have higher amounts of the cytokine IL-26 in their blood, according to...

Researchers develop promising new cancer therapy

Immune checkpoint inhibitors such as Keytruda and Opdivo work by unleashing the immune system's T cells to attack...

Cancer is diagnosed more in patients with type 2 diabetes

People with type 2 diabetes who acquire cancer are more likely to have an advanced form of the disease diagnosed,...