Photo: Karim Karti Karim Karti is the former president of GE Health Imaging and current CEO of RapidAI – a company founded more than 10 years ago by one of the world’s leading stroke researchers and director of the Stanford Stroke Center, Dr. Greg Albers. For more than 20 years, most in healthcare believed doctors […]
In advanced and metastatic melanoma patients, fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) from healthy donors in advance of anti–PD-1 immunotherapy led to a 75% clinical benefit rate, defined as complete response, partial response, or stable disease that lasted 6 months or longer. The results come from a small, single arm phase 1 study whose primary endpoint was […]
Eating a plant-based diet – focusing on vegetables, whole grains, nuts and legumes – has a bigger impact than you might think. New research shows it can reduce the risk of bowel cancer in men by 22%. A study of 79,952 US-based men found that those who ate the largest amounts of healthy plant-based foods […]
Could maca coffee replace regular coffee as your new pick-me-up? Adaptogenic maca has a number of reported health properties, but can it be beat a steaming cup of joe in the morning? We tested it out. Coffee has a plethora of health properties – it’s been linked to a longer lifespan, improved gut health and […]
Competition between five biologic drugs and their skinny-label biosimilars saved Medicare an estimated $1.5 billion during 2015-2020. But these savings accruing to Medicare and the availability of those and other biosimilars through skinny labeling is under threat from recent court rulings, according to a research letter published online in JAMA Internal Medicine. The authors highlighted the need […]
Dr Michael Mosley discusses low carb meals We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info While cancer represents a scary concept, research continues […]
Breaking bones can be life changing events—especially as we age, when hip fractures can become particularly damaging and result in disability, compromised independence and a higher mortality risk. But research from Edith Cowan University’s Nutrition and Health Innovation Research Institute has revealed there may be something you can do to help reduce your risk of […]
Mood stabilizers protect against suicide and all-cause mortality in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), including natural mortality, with lithium emerging as the most protective agent, new research suggests. Investigators led by Pao-Huan Chen, MD, of the Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taiwan, evaluated the association between the use of mood stabilizers and the […]
Children and young people are at risk of financial and emotional harm from in-game purchases, new research shows. In the report “Between Gaming and Gambling: Children, Young People, and Paid Reward Systems in Games,” academics from Newcastle and Loughborough Universities found there are risks for young video game players who make in-game purchases, such as […]
British Heart Foundation: Understanding blood clots We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Blood clots are a double-edged sword. The gel-like clumps […]
