Tag: Disease
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How To Cure Type 2 Diabetes Without Medication
Eva Bee/The Observer It’s 10 years since Professor Roy Taylor revolutionized treatment for type 2 diabetes with a groundbreaking study that showed the disease could be reversed through rapid weight loss. Until his research was published, type 2 diabetes was thought to be an incurable, lifelong condition. Now, for many people, we know it is not. But…
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For Alzheimer’s Sufferers, Brain Inflammation Ignites a Neuron-Killing “Forest Fire”
Getty Images For decades researchers have focused their attacks against Alzheimer’s on two proteins, amyloid beta and tau. Their buildup in the brain often serves as a defining indicator of the disease. Get rid of the amyloid and tau, and patients should do better, the thinking goes. But drug trial after drug trial has failed…
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Portable Device Detects Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Biomarkers on The Spot
David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Because of the logistics and invasive procedures involved, many people put off getting tested for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Thanks to a new portable device, however, such testing could soon be performed non-invasively at just about any location. Ordinarily, testing for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and…
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Inside Apple’s Impossible War On Child Exploitation
Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Apple spent years trying to design a system that would stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud. When the company scrapped it, key members of the team behind the project left and child protection investigators were frustrated. But Apple’s privacy-first approach gained plenty of fans in…
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Behavior Is a Miracle Drug
Getty Healthcare is broken. Chronic diseases are eating up an increasing share of healthcare resources in every healthcare system across the world in ways that are not sustainable. Yes, there is a golden age of innovation happening in the form of new technologies like gene therapy, neural technology, immunotherapy, and increasingly the impact of AI on…
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High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer. Now There’s a Plan to Tackle It
Lucas Ninno/Getty Images Once considered a disease of the affluent, hypertension now affects a third of all adults. The WHO wants nations to get organized to combat it. The World Health Organization (WHO) is taking on the world’s worst killer, laying out its first plan to conquer hypertension—a level of high blood pressure that affects one in every three…
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How Ozempic Face Is Altering The Way People Look
Getty / Reuters With 86,700 tagged videos on TikTok, and celebrity fans including Oprah and Elon Musk, the world is fascinated with so-called weight loss drugs. Ozempic, one of the most well-known, is actually a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, improving blood sugar to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular incidents. The Ozempic guidelines outline that the drug which…
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How Do People Get Parasitic Brain Worms Like The One RFK, Jr., Had?
Zephyr/Getty Images Experts explain how certain worms can infect the brain and why they are an important global public health problem. Earlier this week news broke that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed to have once had a dead worm in his brain. Kennedy had been experiencing memory loss and mental fog, and he…
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CDC Confirms 5 Cases of HIV Linked To Dirty Vampire Facials In New Mexico
(KTSDesign/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Nearly six years have passed since a day spa in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was closed following a state health department investigation into the facility’s unregulated practice of ‘vampire facials’. A report released this week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now details five suspected cases of HIV traced to unsanitary procedures…
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Massive Study Finds Coffee Drinkers Will Probably Outlive The Rest of Us
Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment/Getty Images Based on an analysis of just under half a million records in the UK Biobank, people who drink two to three cups of coffee each day tend to live longer and exhibit less cardiovascular disease compared with those who abstain from the beverage. While the research doesn’t claim drinking more coffee adds…
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Men on Viagra Found To have 18% Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Depositphotos Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors such as Viagra are, of course, best known for effectively treating erectile dysfunction, but a study of nearly 270,000 men has added to the growing body of evidence that they may also lower the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. University College London (UCL) researchers looked at 269,725 male participants in the UK,…
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One Habit Can Triple Your Risk of Getting Dementia Within 7 Years. Here’s What Not To Do
Getty If you want to lower your risk of getting Alzheimer’s or some other type of dementia, turn off the TV and step away from the internet. Get off your rear end and go do something. That’s not me talking. That’s science. A new study of people 60 and older has found that sitting around for more…
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Researchers Discover Unexpected Factor Contributing To Obesity Spike
iStock New research suggests that exposure to plastic could be contributing to obesity, with thousands of chemicals in items made from the material unknown. A study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found over 55,000 types of chemicals present in common plastic products, and only 11 of those compounds were able to be identified, as detailed by Earth Day.…
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