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A new study at Columbia University has found that shortening sleep by just 90 minutes for six weeks increased insulin resistance in women who are accustomed to getting adequate sleep. The effect was even more pronounced in postmenopausal women.

A model based on artificial intelligence is able to predict the therapy outcome in 80% of ovarian cancer patients. The tool, named IRON (Integrated Radiogenomics for Ovarian Neoadjuvant therapy), analyzes various patient clinical features.

For years, researchers and clinicians have known that lupus, an autoimmune condition, occurs in women at a rate nine times higher than in men. Researchers have now uncovered answers about the disease’s frequency in females.

A surprising thing happened when researchers began exploring whether early-life stress compounds the effects of a childhood head injury on health and behavior later in life.

A phase 1 trial for Lepodisiran has shown it can reduce levels of lipoprotein A, a key driver of heart disease risk, by 94%, with results lasting for nearly a year.

Researchers have described a previously unknown step in the complex process by which dietary cholesterol is processed in the intestines before being released into the bloodstream – potentially revealing a new pathway to target.

By studying training firefighters, researchers have revealed hundreds of molecular changes as our bodies respond to intense physical exercise.

Researchers describes a hitherto unknown protein with anti-oxidizing properties secreted by Coxiella burnetii, a Gram-negative intracellular bacterium, pointing to possible treatments for auto-immune diseases and even cancer.

New research has discovered that breast cancer cells expressing the Myc gene rely heavily on vitamin B5 to grow and survive, which could potentially be exploited as a therapeutic avenue.

Recent studies indicate that inflammation is one of the causes of the development of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Inflammation may result from past infections, but also from the state of functioning of the intestinal microbiota.