New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11–14 May) shows that having an overweight or obese trajectory during childhood is associated with an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adulthood.
A research team led by Mount Sinai has uncovered mechanisms of abnormal immune cell function that may lead to Crohn’s disease, according to findings published in Science Immunology. The researchers said their discovery provides a better understanding of disease development and could inform the development and design of new therapies to prevent inflammation before it starts in the chronic disorder.
Bubble baths might be soothing soaks, but bubble showers could be the next thing in keeping the skin clean. An Osaka Metropolitan University-led medical research team found that ultrafine bubble showers might help prevent atopic dermatitis. The findings were published in Frontiers in Immunology.
A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that regulates the production of two different proteins from the same gene. Researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, in collaboration with researchers from Columbia University (New York, U.S.) carried out their study with the nematode C. elegans, a small worm widely used in biological research as an animal model.
The coffee from most of the coffee machines in workplaces contains relatively high levels of cholesterol-elevating substances. There is a big difference in comparison to coffee made in regular paper filter coffee makers, which filter out most of these substances.
The measles outbreaks in West Texas and New Mexico have surpassed a combined 350 cases, and two unvaccinated people have died from measles-related causes.
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have investigated the changes in the primary evaluation items in phase II clinical trials for glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor. Recently, the items have become more diverse, with more time-to-event indicators such as survival time being used, whereas the use of response rate, which indicates the proportion of patients whose cancer has shrunk, has decreased. These changes indicate that the design of trials is becoming more comprehensive and more adapted to clinical practice.
A study in the journal Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT) concludes that inhaled technosphere insulin (TI-Afrezza) should be considered as an option for individuals with type 1 diabetes who want an alternative to using an insulin pump or multiple daily injections (MDI) for insulin delivery.
For every year that an adult aged 65 or older experiences food insecurity, they become more likely to undergo unhealthy weight changes associated with earlier death, according to a new study by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.
In a study on ovarian cancer cells, researchers from Karolinska Institutet demonstrate how the tumor environment influences how cancer cells respond to drugs by using AI. The study has been published in the journal Communications Biology.