A new study conducted by UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers shows an alarming number of California women 65 and older are facing late-stage cervical cancer diagnoses and dying from the disease. This is despite guidelines that recommend most women stop screening for cervical cancer at this age. "Our findings highlight the need to better […]

The 2022 guideline update released by the KDIGO organization for managing people with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) highlighted the safety and expanded, evidence-based role for agents from three drug classes: the SGLT2 inhibitors, the GLP-1 receptor agonists, and the nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists. But this key take-away from the guideline also underscored the […]

States that have moderate state abortion laws had lower rates of maternal, fetal, and infant mortality, but not lower all-cause mortality, in reproductive-aged females compared with states that have restrictive laws, new research using 2000-2019 data indicates. Additionally, having a higher number of laws that restrict abortion in a state was linked with higher maternal and infant […]

The Adherence Connection for Counseling, Education, and Support (ACCESS) peer-led, mobile health cognitive behavioral antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence intervention improves adherence to ART for adolescents and young adults (AYA) with HIV infection, according to a study published online Dec. 27 in AIDS and Behavior. Ann-Margaret Dunn Navarra, Ph.D., from the Rory Myers College of Nursing […]

Fewer than 4 in 100 men who apply to be sperm donors reach the end of the process and have samples frozen and released for treatments, according to a new study. A European team of researchers led by the University of Sheffield, worked with the world’s largest sperm banks, Cryos International, to map the outcome […]

Studies have shown that weight loss by reducing calorie intake can lead to the remission of type 2 diabetes, involving the return of blood glucose (sugar) levels to prediabetic levels in the absence of medications. A recent primary care-based cohort study showed that about 97% of type 2 diabetes patients who adopted a low-carbohydrate diet […]

Participation in the first 2 years of Maryland’s Advanced Primary Care Program (MDPCP) was associated with better COVID-19 outcomes compared with a matched group not involved with the program, new data indicate. The better outcomes were seen in higher vaccination rates and fewer infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from the disease, according to study authors, led […]

Scientists have identified new genetic variants linked to heart failure, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The study, which analyzed the genomes and ancestries of more than 115,000 patients experiencing heart failure, details 47 risk loci in the human genome where genetic variants may indicate an increased risk of heart failure. Additionally, investigators […]

Less than four in 100 men who apply to be sperm donors reach the end of the process and have samples frozen and released for treatments, according to a new study. A European team of researchers led by the University of Sheffield, worked with the world’s largest sperm banks, Cryos International, to map the outcome […]

Pregnant women often experience glucose intolerance of varying severity, which is referred to as gestational diabetes (GDM). Several studies have indicated the adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes associated with GDM. For instance, mothers with GDM are at a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and the newborn of being obese or experiencing […]