Kombucha Shows Potential Diabetes Benefit in Small Trial
Drinking kombucha helped improve blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes, according to a randomized, controlled pilot trial. After drinking the fermented tea for a month, participants saw a significant reduction in average fasting blood glucose levels (164 vs 116 mg/dL, P=0.035) not seen in those in the placebo group (162 vs 141 […]
Eat right, live longer: Could a moderate protein diet be the coveted elixir of youth? Researchers decode the correlation between dietary protein intake and improved metabolic health in mice
Consuming nutritious food can improve metabolic health and delay aging. But what are the appropriate quantities of dietary macronutrients that can help achieve this? To answer this, researchers from Japan fed isocaloric diets with varying amounts of protein to young and middle-aged male mice. They found that the mice were metabolically healthier when fed moderate-protein […]
Hormone Infusion Shows Promise for Low Sexual Desire
An infusion of the hormone kisspeptin helped improve low sexual desire in both men and women, two small trials found. In the 37-participant study of heterosexual men with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), IV kisspeptin-54 significantly increased activity in key sexual-processing structures of the brain in response to viewing sexual videos compared with placebo (mean […]
How better planning, behavior regulation may lead to eating less fat: Study in pregnant women shows stress affects thinking, dietary patterns
New research suggests coaching overweight or obese pregnant women to improve their ability to plan and make progress toward goals may be key to helping them lower the amount of fat in their diet. Maternal diet quality affects prenatal development and long-term child health outcomes, but the stress that typically increases during pregnancy — often […]
School garden-based interventions can improve blood sugar, reduce ‘bad’ cholesterol in children
School garden-based interventions can improve metabolic parameters such as blood sugar and cholesterol in children, according to a new study from UTHealth Houston. A cluster randomized controlled trial conducted by researchers with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and The University of Texas at Austin found that Texas Sprouts — a gardening, nutrition, and cooking […]
Women Share Profound Changes They Made To Improve Their Mental Health
Women Share Profound Changes They Made To Improve Their Mental Health
Anticoagulation Again Flops for Outpatient COVID-19
CHICAGO — For outpatient COVID-19, prophylactic anticoagulation with rivaroxaban (Xarelto) did not improve outcomes in elevated thrombotic risk patients, the PREVENT trial showed. Compared with placebo, giving the direct-acting oral anticoagulant (DOAC) for 35 days in non-hospitalized patients with symptomatic COVID-19 who had at least one risk factor for thrombosis didn’t reduce thromboembolic events or […]
State Insurance Mandates Don’t Improve Racial Disparities in ART Live Births
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Insurance mandates for fertility treatment with donor oocytes may improve overall live birth rates, but the current policies fail to reduce racial disparities in assisted reproductive treatment (ART), according to a retrospective study. Overall, state insurance requirements for coverage of donor oocytes were linked to a 10% increase in the odds of […]
Survival No Better With Intensive Surveillance in Endometrial Cancer
An intensive surveillance regimen for endometrial cancer did not improve overall survival (OS) over a minimalist regimen, even in high-risk patients, results from the randomized TOTEM trial showed. After a median follow-up of 69 months, the 5-year OS rate was 90.6% with the intensive approach versus 91.9% with the minimalist approach, which mainly included physical […]
Targeted Combo Flops as First-Line Treatment in Advanced Breast Cancer
PARIS — A novel combination failed to improve the clinical benefit rate (CBR) in advanced triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) compared with chemoimmunotherapy, a randomized trial showed. Adding the anti-CD73 antibody oleclumab to durvalumab (Imfinzi) and chemotherapy led to clinical benefit (response plus stable disease) in 43% of patients by 24 weeks as compared with 44% […]