Semaglutide and other GLP-1 drugs are gaining ground after bariatric surgery when weight loss falls short Bariatric surgery is often presented as a turning point in obesity treatment. In many cases, it truly is. It can lead to substantial weight loss...
Continue readingBrain inflammation still cannot be ruled out in long COVID — and the evidence remains unsettled More than four years after the start of the pandemic, one of the hardest questions in medicine still has no simple answer: what is actually driving the pe...
Continue readingAdvanced imaging is making brain cancer treatment more precise — and more personalised When it comes to brain cancer, imaging has never been just a picture. It helps answer some of the most important questions in care: where the tumour is, how far it...
Continue readingMore precise molecular testing may open new paths for rare central nervous system tumours In oncology, rarity is rarely an advantage. Rare tumours tend to come with fewer studies, fewer established treatment pathways, less diagnostic consensus, and l...
Continue readingSome cancers may depend on cholesterol metabolism to grow — and that could open new treatment targets For a long time, cholesterol was treated almost exclusively as part of a cardiovascular story. High cholesterol meant worry about arteries, heart at...
Continue readingA detailed map of pancreatic islet cells is offering new clues to diabetes risk For decades, the public story of diabetes was told in relatively simple terms. In type 1 diabetes, the central idea was autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta c...
Continue readingBiomaterials may help make pancreatic cancer organoids more useful in the lab — but the promise is still early Pancreatic cancer remains one of the hardest diseases to study and treat. Part of the problem lies in the tumour itself: it changes, adapts...
Continue readingPoor health may be reaching younger generations earlier in life — and inequality is a big part of the story For decades, many people assumed progress would move in one direction. Each generation, the thinking went, would live longer, arrive at adulth...
Continue reading‘Smart bubbles’ are emerging as a promising way to target cancer and heart-related disease more precisely Few ideas sound as unlikely — and as elegant — as this one: using microscopic bubbles to help doctors see disease more clearly and, at the same...
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