Eating more fruits and vegetables cut kidney patients’ medicine expense in half

People with kidney disease who added more fruits and vegetables to their diet had improved blood pressure and cut their medicine expenses nearly in half compared to those who were treated with a…

New study uses cutting-edge miniature photography to unravel how vitamin A enters cells

Using a new, lightning-fast camera paired with an electron microscope, University of Maryland School of Medicine scientists have captured images of one of the smallest human proteins to be “seen”…

Weight and diet may help predict sleep quality

Overweight adults spend more of their sleep in REM stage than healthy weight adults do, says Penn Medicine study.

Alleviating malnutrition in children in resource-limited and conflict areas

In 2 articles published PLOS Medicine, Saskia van der Kam of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and colleagues describe the outcomes of two randomised controlled trials in resource-limited settings…

Study shows maternal diet alters the breast milk microbiome and microbial gene content

In a study to be presented on Feb.

FIU scientists discover how arsenic builds up in plant seeds

Discovery holds promise of healthier rice grains. Researchers from FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Barry P.

Research yields potential treatment approach for glycogen storage disease

Researchers from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) and Duke Medicine have identified a potential treatment strategy for an often-fatal inherited glycogen storage disease.

Despite promise, vitamin D and calcium do not reduce colorectal cancer risk

The New England Journal of Medicine reports results of a 2,259-person study conducted at 11 academic medical centers showing that dietary supplementation with vitamin D and/or calcium after removal…

Excessive vitamin intake in pregnant rats impacts food choices in offspring

A research group at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine has been using a rat model to see how maternal intake of above-requirement vitamins (A, D…

Female diet alters the nutrient composition of fluid in the womb

Scientists at the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Medicine have discovered that maternal diet affects the nutrient composition of fluid in the womb of women and thus may aid in the…

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