June 2025

Once-Monthly MariTide Promising in Phase 2 Despite GI Issues

CHICAGO — Patients with obesity with or without diabetes lost as much as 20% of body weight and showed reductions in A1c levels, after 1 year of treatment with the novel agent maridebart cafraglutide (MariTide), according to the results of a Phase 2 study. However, virtually all patients experienced a gastrointestinal (GI) adverse event, leading […]

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Dallas researchers find cancer’s secret weapon to defeat death

Cancers use lipids to build a shield with vitamin E. Stripping that shield could lead to new treatments.   By Miriam Fauzia Science reporter   Jun. 27, 2025 | Updated 1:33 p.m. CDT | 5 min. read Professors Javier Garcia-Bermudez of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern and Dr. Ralph DeBerardinis of UT

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Israeli scientists unveil leukemia breakthrough just before missile demolishes research building

After surviving a direct Iranian missile hit, Israeli researchers from the Weizmann Institute revealed a groundbreaking blood test that detects early signs of leukemia and tracks blood aging—offering a painless, data-driven alternative to bone marrow biopsies and advancing cancer diagnostics worldwide Eitan Gefen|Yesterday | 23:41 Steven Spielberg couldn’t have directed a better script. In a

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Swarms of tiny robots could go up your nose, melt the mucus and clean your sinuses

The “search-and-destroy” microrobot system can chemically shred the resident bacterial biofilm. byMihai Andrei  June 27, 2025 in Future, Health, Inventions, News A A  Edited and reviewed by Zoe Gordon Share on FacebookShare on TwitterSubmit to Reddit AI-generated image.Having your nose clogged is one of the most annoying feelings ever. People would go to great lengths to be able to breathe normally

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Combination Treatment Reduces Weight While Keeping Muscle – obesity

CHICAGO — Combined use of semaglutide with an investigational monoclonal antibody called bimagrumab produced significant fat mass loss while preserving lean mass, results from the phase 2b BELIEVE study found. Loss of muscle mass is an emerging concern with increasing use of GLP-1 agonists for weight loss as lean body mass is estimated to account for up to 15%-40% of total weight loss

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Cancer Survivors Are Skipping the Primary Care Doctor – cance

Fewer than half of cancer survivors visit a primary care clinician during their fifth through seventh years following their diagnosis, according to a new study published in JCO Oncology Practice. “Primary care providers’ engagement with cancer survivors is viewed as really important, not just for detection of a recurrence or a new cancer but to manage chronic

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Genetic Tests in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation May Flag Those at High Risk for Heart Failure

Genetic testing in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) may identify those at higher risk of developing incident cardiomyopathy or heart failure, new research from the Netherlands suggested. In a study that included two longitudinal cohorts (the All of Us Research program and the UK Biobank), the prevalence of inherited rare gene variants associated with cardiomyopathy

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Are the eyes the windows to our health? Sighting dementia, MS, and diabetes

The eyes have long been called the “windows to the soul,” and increasingly, evidence is suggesting that they might be also windows to both the brain and body. Several health conditions can be detected by examination of the eyes, among them diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and even Alzheimer’s disease. Medical News Today spoke to experts in the field

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Can You Eat Away the Risk for Blindness? –

Many clinicians wonder if their advice about smoking cessation, diet, and exercise has much effect on patients. But people with family histories of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) may be more receptive than others. Given the dearth of effective treatments once patients have reached the late stage of the disease, they may be motivated by hearing

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Inexpensive HIV Medicine Improves Vision in Diabetic Eye Disease

TOPLINE: Oral lamivudine, an inflammasome inhibitor originally approved for suppressing HIV, was a relatively safe and effective treatment for improving visual acuity in adults with center-involving diabetic macular edema, a serious complication of diabetic retinopathy. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a clinical trial to assess the effectiveness of oral lamivudine vs placebo in improving visual acuity in

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