Dr Amir lists diabetes symptoms Diabetes is a serious and typically lifelong condition which causes your blood sugar levels to become too high. While it is not known exactly what causes type 1 diabetes, among type 2 patients this is…

I’m well aware that I have so many more choices than women who came before me. Diving into womanhood with enough luck and access to the right resources, I knew I could set out on any career I wanted, create…

Reviewers’ Notes A study led by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Weill Cornell Medicine discovered a new relationship between cancer cells and the immune system, and shows how cancer can selfishly hijack a normally helpful immune…

TOPLINE: Uptitration to 4 mg baricitinib may increase responses in patients with alopecia areata (AA) who do not respond to the 2 mg dose over 1 year. METHODOLOGY: Patients with alopecia areata (AA) treated with 4 mg of the oral…

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for Roche’s Accu-Chek Solo micropump system, a tubing-free “patch” pump for people with diabetes who use insulin. The product received CE Mark in Europe in 2018 and is now available…

Reviewers’ Notes Bartter syndrome type 3 is the result of several structural variants in the genome. By using long-read sequencing, Janine Altmüller and her team from the Max Delbrück Center, the BIH and University Hospital Cologne mapped out the rare…

Early in his career as a pain researcher, Daniel Whibley, PhD, was struck by an article that drew parallels between methods of torture and the experiences of patients with insomnia and chronic pain. Dr Daniel Whibley The author of that…

When you become a parent, you learn that a lot of people have opinions about how you should parent your kids. Actually, let’s back up. Before you even have kids (if you want them), people start voicing their opinions about…

A large international team of medical researchers has found that the severity of COVID-19 infections in children over the course of the pandemic varied by age and viral variant. In their study, reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, the group…

A recent study published in Cell Death Discovery summarized the recent advances in the role of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Study: m6A methylation: a potential key player in understanding and treating COVID-2019 infection. Image Credit: felipe…