UVA Data Science researcher leads $4.7M project for AI-powered diabetes management
University of Virginia School of Data Science researcher Heman Shakeri has been awarded a major new research grant to lead…
Financial incentives lower blood sugar in uncontrolled type 2 diabetes
Background: In this randomized controlled trial in Israel, researchers examined whether a contingent discount as a financial incentive…
Improving survival in people with severe psychiatric disorders
An expert editorial suggests that widely used diabetes and obesity drugs may help close the long-standing mortality gap…
Blood-based epigenetic signatures enable early risk assessment in prediabetes
Prediabetes is an extremely heterogeneous metabolic disorder. Scientists from several partner institutes of the German Center for Diabetes…
Short-term oatmeal diet improves cholesterol and metabolic health markers
A short-term oat-based diet appears to be surprisingly effective at reducing the cholesterol level. This is indicated by…
Long-Term Keto Diet Risks Raise Questions for Metabolic Health
A long-term study published in Science Advances has found that while a ketogenic diet limited weight gain in…
Which breads are best — and the ‘healthy’ kind you should avoid
Bread is, well, on a roll. Though the average price of bread rose about 2.2% in the last…
Nearly half of adults now live with heart disease as obesity and diabetes surge
From rising obesity and diabetes to stubborn health inequities, the AHA’s latest statistics reveal why cardiovascular disease remains…
3 Healthcare Threats That Will Soon Become Too Big To Solve
Healthcare faces three urgent threats that require a coordination solution getty Most industries enjoy a luxury that U.S.…
Tracing the decline in American heart disease mortality
Following a five-year upward trend likely impacted by the COVID pandemic, the number of heart disease and stroke…
High-dose flu shots lower hospitalization risk in older adults
A large Danish trial analysis suggests high-dose flu vaccines may offer extra protection against serious influenza-related hospitalizations in…
Experts question diet guidelines’ higher protein-intake advice
Protein just got a big boost from U.S. health officials. The latest federal dietary guidelines tell Americans to…