Semaglutide reduces excess body fat in people with obesity
In adults with obesity or overweight, weekly treatment with the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1) receptor agonist semaglutide leads to reduced
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Maintaining body weight won’t save colorectal cancer survivors
Colorectal cancer survivors who maintained a stable body weight but lost muscle and developed fatty deposits in their muscles faced
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What Really Happens To Your Body When You Stick To An Atkins Diet
The Atkins diet is nothing new, having been designed by cardiologist Robert Atkins in the 1960s (via Mayo Clinic). Most
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How some drugs can turn into a cancer-causing chemical in the body
When consumers get a prescription drug from the pharmacy, they assume that it’s been tested and is safe to use.
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What Eating Too Much Citrus Does To Your Body
Maintaining a healthy diet is a great way to stay healthy and fit. Many of us are often told that
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Map shows how cancer cells spread through the body
The vast majority of cancer deaths are attributed to metastasis, or the spread of tumors from one organ to another.
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COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetime
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the obesity epidemic once again into the spotlight, revealing that obesity is no longer a
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Using metagenomic sequencing to quickly identify pathogens in body fluids
A team of researchers from the University of California San Francisco, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
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Black Women With Breast Cancer Face a Unique Bias — Here’s How to Self-Advocate
This story is part of Survivor's Guide, a series on navigating the impact of breast cancer through beauty and self-care.
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Circadian rhythm: Liver gene helps body keep working smoothly after late nights and midnight snacks
Every living human is controlled by an internal “clock” which drives our circadian rhythm—the natural internal process that regulates our
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