Category: Medical Technology

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/taurine-energy-drink-darling-cancer-suspect-2025a1000jkx?form=fpf

Taurine’s Rise and the Longevity Myth

Taurine is an amino sulfonic acid (not a protein-building amino acid) that naturally occurs in the body and is found in foods such as meat and fish. It’s also widely … [Read More]

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/us-health-secretary-kennedy-says-hhs-launch-campaign-2025a1000gzd

Understanding the Campaign

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on June 24, 2025, that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon roll out a nationwide campaign to promote the use of … [Read More]

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/telemonitoring-boosts-glycaemic-control-t2d-2025a1000da6?form=fpf

Smart Devices Help T2D Patients Spend More Time in Healthy Glucose Range

A new study from Denmark showed that using telemonitoring technology helped people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) manage their blood sugar better than standard care. … [Read More]

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/1002391

What the Study Looked At

Researchers studied almost 90,000 middle-aged and older adults in the UK over a period of nearly 10 years. Everyone in the study wore a wrist device (an accelerometer) that tracked how … [Read More]

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/hyperglycemia-risky-side-effect-certain-cancer-drugs-2025a1000a05

Why Cancer Treatments Cause Blood Sugar Problems

Some new breast cancer drugs, such as inavolisib, alpelisib, and capivasertib, can cause a serious side effect: hyperglycemia, (high blood sugar). These drugs block the PI3K/Akt pathway, which is … [Read More]

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/why-placebo-may-work-better-when-you-know-its-placebo-2025a10008an

What Was the Study About?

Researchers wanted to see if open-label placebos (OLPs)—pills with no active ingredients that patients knoware placebos—could help with premenstrual syndrome (PMS). They tested this on 150 women with moderate to severe PMS. … [Read More]

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/how-can-machine-learning-boost-t1d-patients-time-range-2025a10004jv

Making Carb Counting Easier

Dr. Yao Qin, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara in California, who is also a person with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), is developing a tool called NutriBench to help estimate carbohydrates in meals … [Read More]

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/unlocking-super-human-potential-artificial-muscle-2025a10002gy

The Need for Artificial Muscle

Artificial muscle is more than just a futuristic concept—it has real medical and technological applications. Many people suffer from muscle loss due to injuries, surgeries, or diseases, and artificial muscle could help … [Read More]

Original Article: https://physionet.org/content/cgmacros/1.0.0/

What is CGMacros?

CGMacros is a groundbreaking dataset designed to help researchers study personalized nutrition and diet monitoring. It contains data from 45 volunteers, including data from continuous glucose monitor (CGM) readings, food macronutrient details, meal photos, … [Read More]

Original Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07571-1

Mapping the Cells of the Gut

The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a system of organs that digests food, absorbs nutrients, and protects the body from harmful invaders. To better understand how the GI tract works in both … [Read More]