More Americans Are Choosing Talk Therapy Over Medication

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/more-us-patients-choose-talk-therapy-over-psychotropics-2025a1000ber

More People Picking Therapy Over Pills

Between 2018 and 2021, more adults in the U.S. started choosing psychotherapy (talk therapy) without medications to treat their mental health issues. At the same time, fewer people relied only … [Read More]

Chewing Gum Could Make You Swallow Tiny Plastic Pieces

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/chewing-gum-contributes-microplastic-ingestion-2025a10007mu

Why Chewing Gum Might Be a Problem

Chewing gum is popular around the world for freshening breath, helping oral health, and even delivering medicine. But many chewing gums — even “natural” ones — use plant-based or … [Read More]

The Problem with Some Breast Cancer Drugs: High Blood Sugar

Original Articlehttps://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]

Food Additives Might Raise Risk for Type 2 Diabetes, Study Finds

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/how-everyday-food-additives-may-be-fuelling-t2d-2025a10008xj

Why Scientists Studied Food Additives

Food companies use additives to improve texture, taste, shelf life, and appearance of products. Earlier studies have shown that some additives might be harmful to human health. Most of this research focused … [Read More]

Sugar Pills That Work? How Open-Label Placebos Help with Premenstrual syndrome

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]

Stress from Diabetes Affects the Body’s Nervous System

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/diabetes-distress-linked-autonomic-symptoms-adults-2025a100089l

Diabetes Distress and the Autonomic Nervous System 

The goal of the study was to see if diabetes distress (DD)—the stress from managing diabetes—is linked to symptoms in the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls automatic body … [Read More]

The Impact of Temperature on Mood Disorders: How Heat Affects Depression and Mania

Original Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/heat-may-worsen-mania-ease-depression-study-finds-2025a10006iw

Temperature and Mood Symptoms

New research reveals that changes in ambient temperature can significantly impact the symptoms of mood disorders. Specifically, each 1°C rise in daily mean temperature was linked to a 0.2% decrease in depressive … [Read More]