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Medical Cannabis Use Rising Among Older Adults
More individuals are using medical cannabis, but the increase appears to be more pronounced among seniors, new research suggests. Results
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Adverse Metabolic Changes May Accompany Switch From TDF- to TAF-containing Antiretroviral Therapy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Replacing tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) with tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) in antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens raises
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Adverse Metabolic Changes May Accompany Switch From TDF- to TAF-containing Antiretroviral Therapy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Replacing tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) with tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) in antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens raises
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The interconnection of global pandemics: Obesity, impaired metabolic health and COVID-19
In a Nature Reviews Endocrinology article authors from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) highlight the interconnection of obesity
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Perinatal exposure to flame retardant alters epigenome, predisposing metabolic disease
Studies have shown that perinatal exposure of rats and mice to common flame retardants found in household items permanently reprograms
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Resistance to immune checkpoint blocker drug linked to metabolic imbalance
A metabolic imbalance in some cancer patients following treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor drug, nivolumab, is associated with resistance to
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Team identifies, advances a drug that targets metabolic vulnerability and impairs cancer cell growth and survival
A drug discovered and advanced by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Institute for Applied Cancer Science (IACS)
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Elevated homocysteine identified as metabolic risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases
The amino acid homocysteine occurs naturally in the human body, generated as a byproduct of methionine metabolism. Genetic diseases or
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Sugars in infant formulas pose risk to babies with inherited metabolic disorder
Babies with inherited intolerance of fructose face a risk of acute liver failure if they are fed certain widely available
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