UK poultry producers are battling a “bad season” of bird flu, with cases much worse than at this point last year, putting a squeeze on supplies of Christmas birds including turkeys, chickens and ducks.
Two industry insiders said they expected…

UK poultry producers are battling a “bad season” of bird flu, with cases much worse than at this point last year, putting a squeeze on supplies of Christmas birds including turkeys, chickens and ducks.
Two industry insiders said they expected…

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts nearly two million Americans, and by the time most people learn they have it, most of the body’s insulin-producing cells are destroyed. Now, pinpointing a hidden group of immune “attack” cells in the…

Tinajero MG, Malik VS. An update on the epidemiology of type 2 diabetes: A global perspective. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2021;50(3):337–55.
Yun JS, Ko SH. Current trends in epidemiology of…

Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at risk of having one, according to a new study led by Mount Sinai researchers. The results, published in a…

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a brain circuit that can drive repetitive and compulsive behaviors in mice, even when natural rewards such as food or social contact are available. The study has been…

Use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), commonly used for treatment and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity, was associated with reduced odds of 5-year mortality in patients with colon cancer in a study…

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is one of the world’s most dangerous yet overlooked infectious diseases. Spread by ticks and livestock, the virus causes sudden fever, organ failure, and internal bleeding, killing up to 40% of…

Galicia-garcia U, Benito-vicente A, Jebari S, Larrea-sebal A. Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Int J Mol Sci Rev. 2020;21(6275):1–34.
Thomas RL, Halim S, Gurudas S, Sivaprasad S,…