Health
Well-preserved Amazon rainforest on Indigenous lands can protect people from diseases, study finds
Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick.
Sep 13, 2025
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Medications
Half of people stop taking popular weight-loss drug within a year, study finds
The new class of anti-obesity drugs, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), is proving remarkably effective at helping individuals lose weight. However, a new population-wide study presented at the Annual Meeting ...
Sep 13, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Links between diabetes and depression are similar across Europe, study of over-50s in 18 countries finds
The relative increase in odds of an individual with diabetes developing severe symptoms of depression—and vice versa—is the same, regardless of where they live, a study of over-50s in 18 countries in Europe presented ...
Sep 13, 2025
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Ophthalmology
AI can spot which patients need treatment to prevent vision loss in young adults
Researchers have successfully used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict which patients need treatment to stabilize their corneas and preserve their eyesight, in a study presented at the 43rd Congress of the European Society ...
Sep 13, 2025
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Diabetes
Study shows smoking increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, regardless of its characteristics
The characteristics of type 2 diabetes vary from patient to patient and it has been proposed that the condition is made up of four subtypes. Now, new research presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for ...
Sep 13, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What is the 'kissing bug' disease, and should Texans be worried?
Kissing bugs may sound charming, but with one bite, these insects can spread a dangerous parasitic infection: Chagas disease. Affecting more than 7 million people worldwide, mostly in Latin America, the disease should now ...
Sep 13, 2025
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Health
FDA sends 100 cease-and-desist letters in crackdown on DTC drug advertisements
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking new steps to regulate direct-to-consumer drug advertisements and eliminate misleading advertisements out of concern that patients are not receiving a "fair balance" of information ...
Sep 13, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
2010 to 2019 saw global decline in noncommunicable disease mortality
Noncommunicable disease (NCD) mortality decreased in most countries around the world from 2010 to 2019, according to a study published online Sept. 10 in The Lancet.
Sep 13, 2025
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Oncology & Cancer
Study finds primary-care doctors often overlook prostate cancer risk in Black men
Although Black men die of prostate cancer at twice the rate of the rest of U.S. males, this fact often is not known or considered during appointments with their primary-care clinicians to discuss a common screening test.
Sep 13, 2025
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Vaccination
Trump administration to award a no-bid contract on research into vaccines and autism
Federal health officials intend to award a contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations and autism, according to a government procurement notice.
Sep 13, 2025
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