People who have type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of developing dementia. A recent study investigates how a diabetes medication may affect this risk. The scientists behind the study focused on sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors, which they found significantly reduced dementia risk compared with another diabetes drug. The...

A diabetes drug may help prevent dementia, new research shows

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Statins are widely recognized for their role in lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and reducing the risk of heart disease. But new research from the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration (CTSU) has revealed that these life-saving medications may come with a small but significant drawback—an increased risk of developing diabetes, particularly in individuals already predisposed to the condition.

Statins and Diabetes: New Comprehensive Research Confirms Elevated Risk

The Guardian

Large Korean study suggests sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors, may lower the risk of dementia

Type 2 diabetes drug associated with 35% lower risk of dementia, study finds

A new study led by UCL suggests that the anti-obesity drug semaglutide could help prevent heart attacks and other significant cardiac events in overweight individuals with cardiovascular disease, regardless of the presence of heart failure. A new study led by Professor John Deanfield of UCL suggests that the anti-obesity drug...

Preventing Heart Attacks: Scientists Discover New Health Benefits of Semaglutide

A three-year study of tirzepatide – a medication approved in the US as Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss – found that when adults who had prediabetes and obesity or overweight used it weekly, it lowered their risk of progression to diabetes by 94% compared with a placebo, according to drugmaker Eli Lilly.

Tirzepatide cuts risk of diabetes by 94% in adults with prediabetes and obesity or overweight, drugmaker says

Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes are linked to faster brain aging. Healthy lifestyle habits may protect against this effect. The corresponding study was published in Diabetes Care. Type 2 diabetes has been linked to increased dementia risk. Until now, how diabetes and prediabetes affect brain aging in people without dementia...

Diabetes and Prediabetes May Accelerate Brain Aging

Strokes are incredibly traumatic. After all, one moment you feel fine. The next, you’re in a hospital having difficulty just trying to communicate with your family and likely facing long-term complications, including disability. And that’s if you’re one of the lucky ones to survive. Yet, the truth...

The one thing about blood pressure that stacks stroke risk

A man who was found dead in a relative's back garden died of blunt force trauma from dog bites, an inquest has heard. Nicholas Glass, 33, was attacked by up to four dogs before his body was discovered outside a property in Hereford Close in Rednal, Birmingham on 21 August.

Man died of blunt force trauma from dog bites

Parade

The Best Time of Day To Take Your Blood Pressure Meds To Lower Your Heart Attack Risk, According to Cardiologists

There are tens of millions of people in the U.S. taking the cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins to prevent heart disease. This could be because the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force advises healthcare professionals to prescribe statins in patients ages 40 to 75 who have at least one risk factor for heart disease, such as diabetes or dyslipidemia, and an estimated 10-year cardiovascular risk of 10 percent or more.

Glaucoma joins growing list of statin side effects

In March of this year, Catherine O'Sullivan's son, Jack, went for a night out in Bristol and never came home. In the weeks that followed, she left the porch light on, just in case he returned. Six months on, that light is off, but her days are now driven by...

'My aim on this earth is to find my missing son'

Everyday Health

Tirzepatide, the active ingredient in these diabetes and weight loss drugs, slashed the likelihood of hospitalization and death in a new study.

Do You Have Heart Failure? This Weight Loss and Diabetes Drug Might Help

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders volume 24, Article number: 443 (2024) Cite this article. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) pose a significant threat to public health. Evidence indicates that the combination of central obesity and normal body mass index (BMI) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality. However, limited evidences exists in middle aged and elderly adults in China.

Association of combined body mass index and central obesity with cardiovascular disease in middle-aged and older adults: a population-based prospective cohort study

Mens Journal

"The shark eat off the man head, eat off one of his hand. It’s crazy."

Teen Decapitated by Shark in Rare, Brutal Attack

The man who walked out into the rain in Dhaka hadn’t seen the sun in more than five years. Even on a cloudy day, his eyes struggled to adjust after half a decade locked in a dimly lit room, where his days had been spent listening to the whirr of industrial fans and the screams of the tortured.

'The howls were terrifying': Imprisoned in the notorious 'House of Mirrors'

Scientists are working on a way of treating cancer by using a patient's natural killer cells to target the disease. The cells - part of the body's immune system - recognise and attack a protein in cancer cells, according to preliminary research involving the University of Southampton. Previously it was...

Cancer vaccine hope after killer cell research

Lisa Peacock encourages anyone who thinks they have a problem to talk to a loved one and seek help.

'I hid my alcoholism for so many years'

A rat-infested jail where prisoners face rising violence and self-harm needs urgent improvement, the chief inspector of prisons has told the justice secretary. Rochester Prison in Kent had squalid conditions, decrepit buildings, widespread illicit drug-use and a “dearth of activity” to prepare men for release, inspectors said. Infestations...

Rat-infested jail needs urgent measures - report

An aortic root aneurysm is a bulge in the first section of the aorta, where the artery joins the heart and aortic valve. Treatment for an aortic root aneurysm can help prevent serious complications. The aorta is the main artery that transports blood away from the heart to supply the...

What is an aortic root aneurysm?

Metformin and GLP-1 drugs can complement each other for better results.

You're Taking Ozempic or Mounjaro for Diabetes. Do You Still Need Metformin?

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Ozempic could delay ageing, researchers suggest

A drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity could also slow down the process of ageing, researchers believe. Semaglutide, better known as Ozempic, \"has...

A drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity could also slow down the process of ageing, researchers believe. Semaglutide, better known as Ozempic, "has...

Ozempic could delay ageing, researchers suggest

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