From drinking water after salty meals to eating fruit to offset sugar binges, many of us try to “fix” our indulgences. But do ...

For decades, we’ve fought cancer with the “Big Three”: surgery, chemo, and radiation. It’s often been a brutal trade-off — to ...

Marked interindividual variability in organ size at comparable BMI supports organ dimensions as a potentially superior predictor of kidney, liver, and pancreatic cancer risk than BMI alone. Ongoing ...

Researchers have identified microRNA-93 as a key genetic driver of fatty liver disease and discovered that vitamin B3 can effectively shut it down. This finding suggests a safe, widely available ...

The term “bronze diabetes” might sound like it belongs in a history book, but it is actually a very descriptive term for a condition doctors call hemochromatosis.

Philip 'Pip' Harding was sitting down to supper with his wife Claire one evening just over two years ago when, out of the ...

The name might sound like a Nordic god, but it is actually the molecular machinery that allows many different species to eat and grow: fungi, plants, whales, humans, flies. It is the mighty TOR ...

Metabolism is more than burning calories. UAB experts explain how metabolism develops from before birth through older adulthood, how hormones, nutrition and lifestyle affect metabolic health, and ...

A new blood test could change the outlook for one of the deadliest cancers—pancreatic cancer—by catching it much earlier than ever before. Researchers identified two previously unknown proteins in the ...

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D), a genuine miracle is on the horizon: a type 1 ...

A new study has for the first time elucidated the gut-liver immune regulatory axis jointly maintained by intestinal commensal bacteria and the intestinal endocrine system, and uncovered the ...

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