New data published in The Lancet journal has found that 828 million adults around the world live with type 2 diabetes — an increase of 630 million people between 1990-2022. While diabetes is a global ...

People with South Asian background are four times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, and earlier, than Europeans. New ...

MUMPS was once a common childhood illness – that was until a vaccination for it was launched in the late Eighties. Now, on ...

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is inflammation of the pancreas. It occurs suddenly and causes pain in the upper abdominal (or epigastric) region. The pain often radiates to your back. AP can also involve ...

After the blood test, she was suggested for a liver scan, and it turned out that she was at a high risk of developing a liver ...

BBC Morning Live doctor Xand van Tulleken has said one in ten people are suffering from a very common incredibly painful ...

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TV star Dr Xand van Tulleken said a condition that leaves people in constant pain and can cause serious infections is ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial ...

A new study found that consuming more omega-3 and omega-6 lowered the risk of 14 types of cancers, but an imbalance of the ...

This new agent, like the other DPP-4 inhibitors, has a mechanism of action that affects both pancreatic ß-cell survival as well as ß-cell secretory function. These medications do not incite ...

AI promises to elevate medicine; but, to the degree that it replaces doctors and nurses, it also threatens to depersonalize ...