You’ve Been Told to Drink 8 Cups of Water Daily, But Does It Work?
Professor Benjamin Breyer's team reviewed randomized trials of daily water intake and found drinking more water helped mainly with weight loss and preventing repeat kidney stones.
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Popular Diabetes Drug Linked to Rare Vision Loss in New Study
Professor Anton Pottegård's team found that people in Denmark and Norway starting semaglutide for diabetes had a higher risk of a rare optic nerve condition, though the absolute risk stayed low.
War Fear Broke the Hearts of Healthy Women
Dr. Sharon Bruoha's team describes a cluster of severe stress-triggered broken heart syndrome cases, mostly in women, in southern Israel during the first weeks of the Israel–Gaza war.
What Put Retail Workers at Risk for COVID Might Surprise You
Dr. Sylvie Trottier's team found that COVID-19 infection among Quebec City retail workers was linked to socializing, younger age, longer hours and incomplete vaccination, especially after restrictions eased.
Eating This Rare Dish Could Boost Your Microbiome
Mads Bjørnsen's team found that rock ptarmigan intestines, an Inuit delicacy, hold a rich microbial community that passes into garum sauce fermented with them.
This Tiny Cell Change Could Be Behind Millions of Vision Problems
Dr. Sujoy Bhattacharya's team found that reducing the protein Prominin-1 in retinal support cells of mice caused damage resembling dry age-related macular degeneration, partly by disrupting cellular cleanup.
Your Sleep Might Hold the Secret to Stopping Constant Ear Ringing
Dr. Linus Milinski and Dr. Victoria Bajo found that ferrets with noise-induced tinnitus slept worse, but tinnitus-linked brain hyperactivity was much weaker during sleep than during wakefulness.
Popular tradition linked to shocking increase in cancer cases
Professor Ann-Joy Cheng's team analysed datasets to find microRNAs tied to areca nut-linked head and neck cancer, and lab tests showed one tumour-suppressing microRNA curbed cancer cell spread.
This natural frog remedy may revolutionize skin protection from radiation
Professor Shuyu Zhang's team found that a peptide from dark-spotted frog skin protected skin cells and mice from radiation injury by damping an inflammation pathway, speeding wound healing.
This Simple Treatment Could Help Thousands Beat Hepatitis C infection
Dr. Brian Conway's team found that two common antiviral regimens cured hepatitis C equally well in people who use drugs, including those facing unstable housing and fentanyl use.
Doctors Now Have a More Intelligent Way to Analyze Tissue in Cancer Patients
Dr. Sahil Saraf's team found that an AI tool for scoring a cell-growth stain in sarcoma samples made pathologists' assessments more consistent, working best alongside human review.
Tumors can’t hide from this revolutionary immune cell upgrade
In lab tests, Dr. Hiroyuki Hiratsuka's team found that chimeric antigen receptors that bind their target faster made engineered T cells better at detecting and killing cancer cells with few markers.