A key switch for cellular energy balance has been discovered in cells: it could potentially become the target of new therapies for diseases ranging from Parkinson’s to rare disorders caused by defects in the cell’s powerhouses, the mitochondria….
Category: 5. Health
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Side Gigs For Physicians Boom As Salaries Flatten And Burnout Continues
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The Rise of Physician Side Gigs
Across the nation, physicians are seeking income streams beyond traditional clinical practice. According to a 2025 MedScape survey, 4 in 10 physicians now…
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The vitamin D mistake weakening your immunity
Taking vitamin D2 might lower the body’s levels of the more efficient form of vitamin D, vitamin D3, according to new research from the University of Surrey, John Innes Centre and Quadram Institute Bioscience. Many people take vitamin D…
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This “chaos enzyme” may hold the key to stopping cancer spread
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive and hardest forms of breast cancer to treat, but a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine suggests a surprising way to stop it from spreading. Researchers have discovered that an…
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Diabetes Drug May Show Promise For Slowing Aging
These findings position henagliflozin at the intersection of diabetes care and longevity science. They are raising both optimism and debate over whether existing medications might also serve as anti-aging therapies.
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Surprising study reveals what really kills fatty liver disease patients
More than a third of the world’s population is affected by metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, the most common chronic liver disease in the world.
MASLD occurs when fat builds up in the liver and is associated with…
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Doctors stunned by a cheap drug’s power against colon cancer
A Swedish-led research team at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital has shown in a new randomized clinical trial that a low dose of the well-known medicine aspirin halves the risk of recurrence after surgery in patients with…
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How the government shutdown is hitting the health care system – and what the battle over ACA subsidies means
Major rifts over key health care issues are at the heart of the federal government shutdown that began at the stroke of midnight on Oct. 1, 2025.
This is not the first time political arguments over health care policy have instigated a…
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Ladapo’s Stance On Vaccine Mandates Contradicts U.S. Immigration Law
Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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When Florida’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, announced his plan last month to get rid of all vaccine mandates in his state, he…
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Fat may secretly fuel Alzheimer’s, new research finds
Obesity has long been acknowledged as a risk factor for a wide range of diseases, but a more precise link between obesity and Alzheimer’s disease has remained a mystery – until now.
A first-of-its-kind study from Houston Methodist found that…
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