Category: 4. Health

When you order some coffee at say a coffee shop, you may be asked whether you’d like it in a mug or a cup. But, on social media, numerous posts are telling you to put your coffee somewhere else. Yep, you’ll find folks touting the supposed “perks” of getting coffee enemas, ranging from relieving bloating to “detoxing” you to preventing and treating cancer. But you’ve got to wonder how many of these claims are backed by real science or whether in the end a coffee enema may do you…

Results of the study, published in the journal Science Advances, could point the way to new treatments for traumatic brain injuries and diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, the scientists said.

Their research, led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor, uncovered a previously unknown role for cypin, a brain protein. Members of the…

“This lets us take a quick snapshot of antibodies as they are evolving after a vaccine or pathogen exposure,” says Andrew Ward, professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at Scripps…

Walgreens Boots Alliance shareholders Friday approved private equity firm Sycamore Partners’ $10 billion buyout offer for…

Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes.

Some microbes found in the human gut can absorb some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, researchers report July 1 in Nature Microbiology. Mice harboring those bacteria in their guts excreted PFAS in their feces, suggesting microbes are intestinal allies that flush forever chemicals from the body.

Bacteria often encounter many potentially stressful chemicals such as…

In a minute, I’m going to ask you what the most expensive medical condition is in the American healthcare system. Before you guess, however, I’m going to explain what I mean by “most expensive.”

I’m not talking about cost per patient. Some people with cancer receive hundreds of thousands of dollars of chemotherapy per year, as do some children with rare…

Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I recently published in the journal Nature Cancer.

Muscle loss in cancer patients is a major health problem, but the exact causes of how precisely tumors affect muscles remain an active area of research.

Scientists in my lab were curious whether one explanation for the muscle loss in cancer patients could be that the…

Imagine walking into your doctor’s office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from your health records, genetic profile and wearable devices to help decipher what’s wrong.

This kind of rapid diagnosis is one of the big promises of artificial intelligence for use in health care. Proponents of the technology say that over the coming decades, AI has the potential to…

The study shows, among other things, that the earliest known evidence of zoonotic diseases — illnesses transmitted from animals to humans, like COVID in recent times — dates back to around 6,500 years ago, with such diseases becoming more widespread approximately 5,000 years ago. It is…