Category: 4. Health

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that switching to permanent standard time could save millions of Americans from serious health risks such as strokes and obesity. Switching clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms and may have serious health consequences for Americans.

The study modelled the health impact of three different potential time policies on Americans: permanent standard time,…

Although pediatric cancer is rare, it is the leading cause of death by disease in children, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Over 16,000 children in the United States are currently diagnosed with cancer. Among the types of cancers diagnosed, most are leukemias, brain tumors, lymphomas, and central nervous system (CNS) tumors. However, 3% of all childhood cancers under 15 years old include pediatric germ cell tumors (GCTs). Adolescents…

Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer in adults. There are about 12,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the United States. There are many different risk factors that could lead to glioblastoma. Age is a large risk factor as well as family history and environmental exposure. Symptoms include headaches, seizures, confusion/memory loss, difficulty speaking or understanding speech, vision problems, nausea, vomiting, and…

When the White House announced that all new H-1B visa petitions would now carry a $100,000 supplemental fee, headlines quickly focused on tech. Silicon Valley has long relied on H-1B visas to recruit engineers from abroad. Yet the bigger impact may not fall on code-writers in California, but on deepening the doctor shortage in communities already struggling.

With hospitals struggling to find enough staff, this…

A single one-time gene therapy could free patients with α-thalassemia, a rare and debilitating blood disorder, from the burden of lifelong transfusions. For patients, this would mean liberation from weekly or monthly hospital visits, reduced risk of organ damage caused by iron overload, and a vastly improved…

For the nearly 100 million adults in the United States who are currently living with prediabetes, a tropical fruit that can reduce the risk of diabetes sounds too good to be true. Tropical fruits contain anywhere between ten to 50 grams of sugar, with mangos on the…

As GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic boom, ShapeScale’s 3D body scanner claims DXA-level accuracy—revealing whether patients are truly losing fat or critical muscle.

Losing weight isn’t the problem. Losing muscle is. That’s the blind spot ShapeScale is betting on — and why doctors now call muscle the body’s most important organ of longevity.

Smart scales are everywhere — brands like Withings, Renpho, Fitbit, and Eufy promise a window into your…

New research from Washington State University suggests a new paradigm in understanding sleep, demonstrating that a substance in the mesh-like walls of bacteria, known as peptidoglycan, is naturally present in the brains of mice and closely aligned with the sleep cycle.

Those findings serve to update a broader hypothesis that has been in…

The research findings, published in Immunity, show that excess fat in the brain’s resident immune cells, called microglia, impairs their ability to combat disease. This insight opens a path to lipid biology-based neuroimmune therapies that could treat diseases like Alzheimer’s by enhancing microglial function and neuronal health. This work…