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Medical Research & Innovations

What new clinical trials and medical studies actually found: drugs, diets, diagnoses and disease risk, reported clearly with a link to the journal.

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Medical Research & Innovations

Scientists found a blood signature of ultra-processed diets, and it explained about half of their link to heart disease

Nov 4 · 3 min read · BMC Medicine

Medical Research & Innovations

People who got less than 42 minutes of bright daylight a day had a higher risk of dementia, and it predicted risk better than six well-known risk factors

Oct 30 · 3 min read · General Psychiatry

Medical Research & Innovations

For the first time, four major US medical groups say a woman’s period should be treated as a vital sign for her heart

Oct 28 · 4 min read · Circulation

Medical Research & Innovations

A liquid painted on children’s cavities in seconds stopped decay in more than half of treated teeth without drilling, but it comes with one visible trade-off

Oct 27 · 4 min read · JAMA Pediatrics

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Scientists estimated that about 1 in 5 colorectal cancers worldwide is linked to a common stomach germ that more than four in ten people carry

Oct 26 · 3 min read · eGastroenterology

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A two-year trial found fish oil supplements did reach the brain in older adults at risk of Alzheimer’s, but the benefit millions take it for never showed up

Oct 25 · 4 min read · eBioMedicine

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Scientists compared every main treatment for low testosterone in men with obesity, and only one approach improved erections

Oct 24 · 3 min read · The Journal of Sexual Medicine

Medical Research & Innovations

Scientists gave people two meals matched for calories, carbs, fat, protein and salt, and one of them made the body release far more insulin

Oct 23 · 3 min read · Nature Metabolism

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A study of 461,682 Americans followed for 19 years found ultra-processed food overall was not linked to colorectal cancer, but one kind of it was

Oct 22 · 4 min read · PLOS Medicine

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A cheap drug some women are given to stop breast milk after childbirth was linked to about 70% less breast cancer in the years that followed

Oct 21 · 4 min read · Cancer Discovery

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Scientists found that in some women with endometriosis, the main symptoms aren’t pelvic pain at all but migraines, anxiety and depression

Oct 20 · 3 min read · Human Reproduction

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1 in 3 women with an autoimmune disease said a doctor had blamed their symptoms on their mind, and for some diseases it was more than half

Oct 19 · 4 min read · eClinicalMedicine

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