Month: March 2024

HMN 2024 – Canada will cover the full cost of contraception for women, the government said Saturday as it highlighted the first part of a major health care reform. The government will pay for the most widely used methods to avoid pregnancy, such as IUDs, contraceptive pills, hormonal implants or the day after pill, for Read More

HMN 2024 – New research from Cedars-Sinai suggests people who are scheduled for certain medical procedures should stop taking popular weight loss drugs in the days or weeks prior to avoid complications. Investigators found glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs)—medications like Ozempic and Wegovy that are used to treat diabetes and obesity—are associated with an increased Read More

HMN 2024 – Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body and causes many diseases. Credit: CDC/Debora Cartagena Take a puff of nicotine for the first time, and your DNA plays an important role, alongside social and environmental factors, in shaping what happens next. In recent years, scientists have identified thousands of genetic variants believed Read More

HMN 2024 – The concentric blue circles depict social determinants influencing health outcomes, guiding the application of data science methods. Three challenges are highlighted: capturing the exposure of interest at multiple levels (eg, individual, neighbourhood, and national) in a culturally appropriate manner, capturing complex relationships between variables and enabling flexibility between model components, and considerations Read More

HMN 2024 – A Louisville, Colorado, company is studying whether cells taken from patients’ fat could reduce knee pain and improve motion in people with arthritis. GID BIO is conducting a Phase III trial of a process that extracts fat from the patient, uses a chemical reaction to isolate cells believed to have regenerative properties Read More

HMN 2024 – An illustration of part of a 3MR showing how the double lever mechanisms works in CZS-(Na,H). Credit: Jason Lively, Aaron J. Celestian In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have published the first-ever mineral-based treatment for a widespread disease. Reported in Read More

HMN 2024 – Left: Unirradiated melanosomes show a smooth surface. Right: Irradiation by picosecond lasers with a pulse width of 450 ps at a wavelength of 1,064 nm and a fluence of 8.50 J/cm² results in melanosomes with their surface structure disrupted. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Many people bothered by skin blemishes might turn to Read More