Cutting salt usually sounds like a personal willpower project, but the biggest gains may come from changes people barely notice. Two modelling studies suggested that modest reductions in salt added to ...

The most defensible conclusion is not that wild blueberries are a cure or a supplement replacement, but that they are a ...

Carbohydrates do more than fuel the body, they shape blood sugar patterns that may matter for how the brain ages. A large long-term study found that diets high in fast-acting carbohydrates linked to ...

Chronic indecision is not just “overthinking”. It may reflect a measurable bias in how information is integrated, where new ...

A large UK study suggests that screening children for type 1 diabetes using a simple finger-prick blood test could help ...

Against this backdrop, the W8Buddy study, a major real-world evaluation of a digitally delivered specialist weight management pathway, has officially opened its first site for patient recruitment and ...

Pancreatic cancer is lethal not only because it grows, but because it spreads early and aggressively. New research suggests the tumour can reprogramme surrounding tissue to create physical and ...

In the obesity group, microbes appeared more active in breaking down sugars and proteins in ways that could contribute to health problems. Those metabolic shifts were also linked with higher levels of ...

Rates of colorectal cancer in older adults have generally improved over recent decades, but the trend is moving in the wrong direction for younger people. Early-onset colorectal cancer – cases ...

Rhinovirus is the most common cause of the common cold and is also a frequent trigger for breathing problems in people with asthma and other long-term lung conditions. The study looked at what happens ...

Their model used 1,557 epigenetic markers measured in blood. Using these markers, the researchers reported that they could assign people to high-risk prediabetes clusters with around 90 per cent ...

Ageing changes the immune system in ways that are not always obvious from the outside. One of the most damaging shifts is a tendency towards persistent, misdirected inflammation – the kind of ...