1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (769+ words) Older adults undergoing cancer treatment face a hidden metabolic threat that has long slipped through the cracks of oncology care. Corticosteroids, which are woven into many chemotherapy regimens and supportive care protocols to suppress nausea, allergic reactions and immune-related toxicity,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (56+ words) Scientists probing why people with Parkinson’s disease so often suffer fragile, fracture-prone bones have uncovered new molecular evidence that the two conditions may be linked by a shared signaling network spanning the brain and the skeleton. A new preclinical study,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (721+ words) A new qualitative study from China offers one of the most detailed maps to date of what patients with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome actually value about their health, and the picture that emerges is strikingly broader than the clinical targets that dominate…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (82+ words) The GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide has already reshaped the conversation around obesity medicine, and a new systematic review and meta-analysis published in the International Journal of Obesity adds an important dimension to that story. The analysis examined what happens when…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (91+ words) Home visits have anchored Ghana’s primary healthcare system for nearly a century, since the Public Health Nursing Service was established by the Ministry of Health in 1928. Trained nurses and community health officers walk door to door, delivering vaccines, antenatal support,…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (94+ words) Butter has long been treated as a simple staple: cream, churned and washed, molded into blocks and prized mainly for its richness. But a new study from South Korea suggests that one of the world’s oldest fermentation traditions could transform…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (55+ words) A short but pointed methodological commentary published in the Journal of Medical Systems is challenging how health services researchers interpret one of the more persistent questions in digital health: whether the characteristics of a hospital’s health information system vendor actually…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (573+ words) For patients with amyloidosis, the difference between receiving the right treatment and the wrong one can hinge on a deceptively simple question: which protein is actually forming the deposits? Amyloidosis is not one disease but a family of disorders in…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (106+ words) A fruit peel most people throw away may soon help keep one of Korea’s best-loved chicken dishes fresh for longer. In a study published in Food Science of Animal Resources, researchers at Kangwon National University found that adding a small…...

2+ day, 36+ min ago   (632+ words) Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is one of the most feared syndromes in medicine, a runaway immune firestorm in which the body’s own scavenger cells turn against blood cells and organs, and it can kill within weeks if untreated....