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Colon cancers have been steadily increasing among people younger than 50, even as cases have declined among seniors.

McGill University researchers have demonstrated that AMPA receptors (AMPARs), which mediate fast excitatory neurotransmission in the brain fundamental to learning and memory processes, exhibit varying degrees of calcium permeability depending on their subunit composition.

Stores up and down Santa Monica Boulevard have seen a run on the iconic red and yellow vials this week, as the Food and Drug Administration cracks down on poppers, a product that has long existed in legal limbo.

A new study in the journal Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics evaluated the effects of a regimen of inhaled technosphere insulin (TI) and insulin degludec over 30 weeks and its potential to reduce post-meal hyperglycemia in adults with type 1 diabetes. TI has a more rapid onset of action than rapid-acting insulin analogs.

Washington University School of Medicine led a study evaluating long-term gantenerumab treatment in individuals with dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease (DIAD). Gantenerumab was associated with serious safety concerns, including a high incidence of brain bleeding and swelling, possibly leading to an early study termination.

Five years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, registered nurse Nicole Baca still visits an infusion center every week to have a mixture of water and other nutrients injected into her bloodstream.

When it comes to your child’s health, do you think much about their risks of developing heart disease? Probably not, since so much of keeping kids healthy means dealing with sore throats, scraped knees and other ailments. But recent research has prompted doctors and parents to take a second look at heart health in children.

A depression prevention program that has helped white youth wasn’t effective for Black youth, raising concerns about the need for more research to help racially diverse groups, according to new research published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Children under 15 accounted for 4.3% of new and relapsed cases of tuberculosis in the WHO’s European region in 2023, 10% more than in the previous 12 months, a report said on Monday.

When wildfires threaten people’s communities, human health is impacted far beyond the inferno. Residual smoke distributes in the breeze, infiltrating homes, schools and offices.