Researchers at Brazil's State University of Campinas found that seven days of climbing exercise activated fat-breakdown pathways in obese mice before the animals lost any measurable weight. The study was done in mice, lasted one week, and has not been tested in people yet.
A federal report tracking 8,717 Canadian adults found reinfection tied to much higher odds of new back and respiratory diagnoses, though the back-problem estimate carries a wide margin of uncertainty its own authors flagged.
Nearly 2,700 cases of foaming hand soap distributed to 15 states carry a Class II recall label from the FDA after two of six products tested positive for five bacteria species tied to skin and bloodstream infections.
Xenon Pharmaceuticals stopped enrolling new patients in two late-stage trials of azetukalner for depression after neuropsychiatric side effects appeared that had not shown up in earlier testing, and its stock fell more than 26 percent in a single session.
The September 18 approval pairs two Eli Lilly drugs against a resistance mutation that develops in up to 40 percent of women with metastatic ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer after hormone therapy, based on a trial that nearly doubled progression-free survival.
A new analysis of NHS data by the charity Rethink Mental Illness found that adults with conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are dying years earlier than the general population, mostly from cancer, heart disease and other physical illness the psychiatric diagnosis itself did not cause.
The vaccine reaching frontline workers in Ituri province was built for a different Ebola strain than the one that has killed more than 3,600 people this year, and DRC's health ministry is running a year-long trial to find out if it works against this one.
California health officials say a hospitalized, unvaccinated passenger traveled by train and connecting bus through Los Angeles, Kern, San Joaquin, Butte, Sacramento, and Alameda counties over five days in September, as the state's 2026 case count reached 59.
GENEVA, March 11 - The World Health Organization on Wednesday said the coronavirus outbreak can be characterized as a pandemic, a word the agency had avoided for weeks, as cases passed 118,000 worldwide and the virus continued to spread across Europe and the United States.
