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After a week of remote work in Farmington Hills, Michigan, Denise Castille was packing up her desk and preparing to leave for the airport to catch a flight back to her home in McKinney, Texas. Most of her co-workers had already left for the Independence Day long weekend when Denise, then 46, started experiencing sharp […]

They’re the tanned, toned bodies sporting the latest fitness fashion, but when it comes to body image these “fitspiration” influencers are more talk than walk, according to world-first research from the University of South Australia. In an audit of the leading Instagram fitspiration accounts, UniSA researchers found that nearly two thirds of the top 100 […]

Exposure to four or more CT scans before age 18 years is associated with more than double the risk for certain cancers into early adulthood, data indicate. In a population-based case–control study that included more than 85,000 participants, researchers found a ninefold increased risk of intracranial tumors among children who received four or more CT […]

Although widely endorsed, treat-to-target (T2T) colonoscopy to gauge mucosal healing in patients who’ve started a new treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains underutilized in clinical practice. Data from the ongoing Study of a Prospective Adult Research Cohort With IBD (SPARC IBD) suggest that only about half of patients with IBD undergo colonoscopy in the […]

UC Davis Health endocrinology researchers are investigating the role of two newly identified molecules that control heat production from fat tissues. Their hope is to discover a better way to combat obesity complications. Assistant Professor of Endocrinology John C. Yoon and his team will study heat-producing fat tissues in the context of metabolic regulation and […]

Radiologically isolated syndrome is diagnosed in people who do not have multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms but who have lesions (abnormalities) in the brain and/or spinal cord, similar to those seen in MS, but with no other symptoms. The phase 3 TERIS study enrolled individuals with RIS from Europe and Turkey and analyzed the efficacy of […]

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Researchers say high levels of vitamin D can bolster anti-cancer immunology treatments. They say vitamin D’s effectiveness comes from its ability to strengthen the immune system, as well as some other effects that can help stop cancer cells proliferating. Experts note that vitamin D has a number of health benefits, including improving bone health. People […]