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What causes obesity? More science points to the brain
“What these individuals need is not simply more willpower, but the therapeutic equivalent of an electrician that can make right these connections...
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10% of US physicians work for or under UnitedHealth. Is that a problem?
The company added 20,000 physicians in the last year alone, including a previously physician-owned multispecialty group...
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U.S. Task Force Takes on Rising BMIs Among Children
Some of the most effective interventions are targeted at both parents and their children, whether that be together, separately, or a combination...
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Report: CKD Severity Linked to Thinning of Retina, Choroid Layers
The extent of this thinning predicts whether kidney function will decline going forward over a period of 2 or 3 years.
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What if a single GLP-1 shot could last for months?
So far, the team has tested the new drug delivery system in rats, and they say human clinical trials could start within 2 years.
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What is the link between cellphones and male fertility?
Observational studies are rare, carried out in small cohorts, and marred by largely conflicting results.
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Children who are overweight at risk for chronic kidney disease
“Given the increasing obesity rates among adolescents, our findings are a harbinger of the potentially preventable increasing burden of CKD and...
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New KDIGO guideline encourages use of HCV-positive kidneys for HCV-negative recipients
The update was triggered by the transplant of HCV-infected kidneys into uninfected recipients and the evolution of the viewpoint on the role of...
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Anti-Rheumatic Drugs Linked to Reduced Thyroid Disease Incidence
In a large Swedish rheumatoid arthritis cohort, the incidence of thyroid disease declines after RA diagnosis vs. the general population, with the...
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ADA issues new screening, obesity management recommendations
Two new recommendations have been added to include screening of adults with diabetes for asymptomatic heart failure by measuring natriuretic...
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Telemedicine in diabetes care associated with worse outcomes
Patients receiving telemedicine-only care had no significant changes or improvements in adjusted A1c whereas those receiving in-person care had a...