Noting that the term “nonalcoholic fatty liver disease” (NAFLD) is stigmatizing, an international group of medical organizations proposed a name change to “metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease” (MASLD). This new name, formulated by 236 experts from 54 countries, was recently announced in a consensus statement in the journal Hepatology, after 74% of panelists agreed that […]
Madonna has postponed her upcoming ”Celebration” tour while she recovers from a “serious bacterial infection” that sent her to the hospital for several days and required treatment in the intensive care unit. The 64-year old singer “developed a serious bacterial infection that led to a several day stay in the ICU” on Saturday, June 24, […]
The age you are when you give birth can affect the chances of the baby developing certain medical conditions Rawpixel/iStockphoto/Getty Images The optimum age for giving birth to reduce the baby’s risk of certain health conditions is between 23 and 32, according to a study in Hungary, although the chances remain low at all ages […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vitamin D supplements may reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attacks among people aged over 60, finds a clinical trial published by The BMJ. The researchers stress that the absolute risk difference was small, but say this is the largest trial of its kind to date, and […]
Abstract Objective To investigate whether supplementing older adults with monthly doses of vitamin D alters the incidence of major cardiovascular events. Design Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of monthly vitamin D (the D-Health Trial). Computer generated permuted block randomisation was used to allocate treatments. Setting Australia from 2014 to 2020. Participants 21 315 participants aged […]
Mothers aged between 23 and 32 are less likely to have babies with congenital disorders than older and younger women, research suggests. Women who have a baby before the age of 23 face a 20 per cent higher chance of it developing abnormalities, data show, while those over the age of 32 are 15 per […]
Two to three weeks after conception, an embryo faces a critical point in its development. In the stage known as gastrulation, the transformation of embryonic cells into specialized cells begins. This initiates an explosion of cellular diversity in which the embryonic cells later become the precursors of future blood, tissue, muscle, and more types of […]
Antibody drug conjugates have existed for years, but several recent advances are helping to refine how these cancer drugs work, expanding our understanding to help overcome their challenges and, ultimately, extending their benefit to more patients. “Antibody drug conjugates are an exciting field of drug development,” says Funda Meric-Bernstam, M.D., chair of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics. […]
Understanding the issue Cardiovascular disease (CVD) impacts the lives of many European residents. It is the most common cause of death in EEA member countries. Every year in the EU, more than 6 million new cases of CVD are diagnosed and over 1.7 million people die from diseases of the circulatory system, representing around 37% […]
