Category: Lifestyle

A new study published in The BMJ shows that people who had surgery to improve blood flow in their legs under spinal or epidural anesthesia were less likely to die than those who were given general anesthesia. General anesthesia involves using drugs to make a patient unconscious and inserting a tube into their windpipe to […]

Researchers at the Estonian Genome Center at the University of Tartu have described hitherto undiscovered associations between miscarriage and maternal genes. They have published their findings in Nature Communications. Miscarriage is the most common complication of pregnancy, affecting about 15% of clinically confirmed pregnancies. Although, the risk of miscarriage increases with maternal age, and has […]

If you think the teenagers in your life have been eating a lot of unhealthy food—you’re probably right. U.S. adolescents get about two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed food, and the more they eat, the worse they score on important measures of heart health, a new study says. Nutritionists started using the term “ultra-processed food” […]

Within the past two decades, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and others have shown that ketogenic diet therapies—high-fat, low-carbohydrate and adequate protein diets that metabolize fat into chemicals called ketones that protect the brain and foster healthy neuron growth—are safe and effective in treating both children and adults with drug-resistant forms of epilepsy. However, while established […]

In a study in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found a molecular switch that turns off the animal’s ability to repair damaged cells in the inner ear. The findings shed light on regenerative abilities that are present in many species of birds and fish, but get turned off in mammals, including humans. The study […]

It is largely unknown why influenza infections lead to an increased risk of bacterial pneumonia. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now described important findings leading to so-called superinfections, which claim many lives around the world every year. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and could contribute to research […]

More incentives to discover and develop innovative treatments. Enabling companies to work together more easily. Flexible pricing for new medicines. Improving the creation and use of biomarker tests, and new indicators of effectiveness to speed up clinical trials. These are all essential measures to improve the current system for discovering and developing new cancer drugs, […]