Medical Research

weight loss drugs

2023-12-10

New Study Suggests Weight Loss Drugs May Reduce Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms

A recent study published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggests that weight loss drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, could help reduce symptoms of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Researchers from The University of Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU) collaborated on the study, which found a 'significant and noteworthy decrease' in the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores of six patients who were undergoing semaglutide treatment for weight loss...

Pittsburgh boy

2023-12-10

Pittsburgh Boy, 10, Fights for Life: Second Liver Transplant Needed

Lucas Goeller, a 10-year-old boy from Pittsburgh, is in a battle for his life. Born with a rare and life-threatening condition called biliary atresia, Lucas is in urgent need of a second liver transplant...

Biden

2023-12-02

Will Biden Let a Rogue Agency Ban Our Apple Watches?

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., make decisions that make life harder for average Americans without any accountability. The administrative state, or the so-called 'fourth branch,' increasingly makes critical decisions with impunity and without the consent of the governed...

An AI researcher analyzing a chest X-ray image using advanced deep learning algorithms. [Taken with Canon EOS R]

AI model

2023-11-30

AI Model Unveils Significant Advancement in Lung Cancer Detection

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare with its latest innovation in lung cancer screenings. By analyzing routine chest X-rays, a deep learning AI model has successfully identified non-smokers at high risk of developing the disease. The groundbreaking study, conducted by researchers from the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center (CIRC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School, involved training the AI model using a dataset of 147,497 chest X-rays from asymptomatic smokers and never-smokers...

A close-up photo of a doctor holding a vial of blood, highlighting the importance of genetic risk factors. (Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark IV)

heart attack risk

2023-11-28

When measuring heart attack risk, one important red flag is often overlooked, doctors say

Heart disease kills more people in the U.S. than any other cause of death — yet many Americans aren’t aware of one major genetic risk factor. Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), is a protein that can greatly increase the chances of a heart attack when it’s present in high levels in the blood...

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