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Dapagliflozin reduces the risk of kidney failure, death from cardiovascular causes or heart failure hospitalization, and all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease patients with or without type 2 diabetes. That’s …
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In 2018, more than 2,000 people died from drug overdoses in Australia—about five each day. That’s according to the Penington Institute’s annual overdose report, released today. The largest number of …
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Pancreatic islet transplants, which revive insulin production to treat type 1 diabetes, only last an average of three years. By learning from a groundbreaking cancer treatment strategy based on a …
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An international team of researchers has created an ingestible device that affixes itself to the stomach wall and treats ailments by delivering electrical pulses. In their paper published in the …
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have, for the first time, been able to trigger the specific immune system response required to reverse the course of small intestinal inflammation by inducing production …
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Animals and humans have the ability to follow their own position in space through self-motion cues, even in the absence of any other sensory information. “If you get up at …
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Have you heard about the many rewards a green energy upgrade can bring to your home? Benefits of using home solar panels range from being eco-friendly to receiving tax …
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A recent study in Science Advances by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Max Planck Institute, shows that neurons can counteract degeneration and promote survival by adapting their metabolism. It challenges …
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