The European Medicines Agency is investigating Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug Ozempic and weight-loss treatment Saxenda after Iceland’s health regulator flagged three cases of patients thinking about suicide or self-harm. Shares of the Danish drugmaker fell 1% on Monday following the news. A European Medicines Agency, or EMA, safety committee is looking into adverse events raised…
The time of year when eggs are collected from women’s ovaries during fertility treatment makes a difference to live birth rates, according to new research published in Human Reproduction [1], one of the world’s leading reproductive medicine journals. Researchers in Australia have found that transferring frozen then thawed embryos to women’s wombs from eggs collected…
First patient of Naegleria fowleri in the province has breathed his last at Services Hospital on, health officials confirmed. Mustafa Shafique, 30, was brought to the Services Hospital Emergency two days back with symptoms of flu, high fever, and headache. On suspicion of Naegleria fowleri infection, healthcare providers took samples, and the same were sent…
According to ABC News, an unnamed man may have detected testicular cancer by taking a pregnancy test as a joke. When the pregnancy test came back positive, the man drew out the episode as a comic strip and posted it on Reddit. One of the Reddit users commented that results may indicate that he has…
While intermittent fasting may be taking over the C-suite, a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine suggests the popular diet trend produces similar weight-loss results as traditional calorie counting. “There were no long-term studies that looked at the way people usually do time-restricted eating with an eight-hour window [of restricted eating],” says Krista…
Every day, we hear bits and pieces about new coping mechanisms for anxiety. Some say that ice cubes on your neck or a cold shower can do the trick, while others claim that a rubber band on the wrist can bring relief. However, “sour candy” is now stealing the show as one of the most…
Fiona Baker, director of SRI’s Human Sleep Research Program, conducts research on the intricate relationships between sleep and general health and well-being. Much of her work has been focused on sleep patterns in adult women, but recently her attention has turned to adolescents. Adolescence is a crucial time for developing healthy sleep patterns as it…
In the quest to find the origin of the puzzling symptoms in four children, researchers from St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute, the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), and the Medical University of Vienna have discovered a completely new disease, linking disruptions of blood formation, the immune…
It’s been almost four years since the coronavirus was discovered, and new developments and questions continue to unravel across the globe. The virus is now on its 16th omicron subvariant, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Subvariants are mutations in the virus’ genetic make-up. As of June 9, XBB.1.5 is the…
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were 13% more likely to suffer a stroke than the general population, even decades after their diagnosis, according to a large national cohort study. The study included all biopsy-confirmed IBD patients in Sweden from 1969 to 2019, representing approximately 85,000 individuals. The incidence rate of stroke in these patients…
