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European cardiologists are urging doctors to treat the consumption of ultra-processed foods as a new cardiovascular risk factor, citing growing evidence linking UPF to obesity, diabetes, kidney disease and poor heart health. Research: Ultra-processed foods, lifestyle management, and cardiovascular disease: Clinical consensus statement of the European Society of Cardiology’s Cardiology Practice Council and the European Society of Cardiology’s European Society of Preventive Cardiology. Image credit: Rimma Bondarenko/Shutterstock.com recent european heart journal The Clinical Consensus Statement presented a clinical consensus developed by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to raise awareness of the cardiovascular risks associated with UPF and provide practical…

Included with every Gastrolyzer® Series order, Bedfont® Scientific Limited provides practical resources designed to support and simplify hydrogen and methane breath testing (HMBT). One such resource was the Interpretation Wheel, which provided clinicians with a quick reference for interpreting Gastrolyzer® results until December 2025. This resource has evolved into a clear A5 interpretation chart. Image credit: Bedfont® Scientific Ltd Why update? As part of Bedfont®’s commitment to providing accurate, evidence-based clinical guidance, interpretation resources have been updated to A5 charts to provide clear, concise, and practical reference for immediate use during testing and reporting. The new format includes sample collection…

New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (May 12-15) suggests that walking around 8,500 steps a day may prevent you from gaining weight back after dieting. The survey results will also be published in a magazine. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Many weight loss programs encourage people to walk more each day, but researchers say there is limited evidence to show whether increasing the number of daily steps actually helps people lose weight while dieting. It also remains unclear whether walking more can help maintain weight loss…

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI).Levels of ammonia in the air, which can negatively impact people’s ability to breathe, are increasing three times faster each year on Colorado’s Front Range, where concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are concentrated, compared to nearby urban areas without large livestock farms, according to a new study. The study was published in a peer-reviewed journal last month atmospheric environmentthere is growing evidence that large dairy farms and livestock farms are creating hot spots for airborne ammonia. Ammonia can irritate people’s eyes and respiratory systems and can also react with other…

For the first two years after Joshua Jacob Gonzalez was born, his parents, Javier and Jessica Gonzalez, sucked saliva from the back of his mouth every five minutes. One missed suction can clog the airway and cause death. So, a few weeks after treatment, Jessica first noticed it. She nudged Javier, who was sleeping in a chair at the National Institutes of Health, awake. When was the last time he inhaled JJ? They realized an hour had passed and their son was breathing fine. It was the beginning of a miraculous yet bittersweet chapter for the Gonzaleses. STAT+ exclusive story…

Researchers in France and Spain diagnosed dermatitis in a large number of men who had sex with other men. Dermatitis is a skin disease that usually affects livestock, but contact with infected animals was not known. One of the researchers told STAT that cases have also been confirmed in Germany. In some ways, this outbreak is reminiscent of the emergence of mpox in networks of gay men and men who have sex with men in 2022. However, those who have diagnosed some of these dermatitis cases describe a disease with much milder symptoms. This infection is caused by the bacterium…

A new analysis of the STEP trial suggests that semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, remains effective and generally safe for obese adults over 65. Researchers found that older adults taking the obesity medication once a week experienced significant weight loss and improvements in several important health measures, similar to results seen in the broader STEP clinical trial population. The study was led by Professor Luca Busetto from the University of Padova in Italy, along with colleagues including researchers from Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of semaglutide and sponsor of the study. Testing…

Dante Alighieri’s inferno It may contain more than religious symbolism or poetic imagination. According to new research, this famous work may also represent an early thought experiment in impact physics, explaining catastrophic planetary collisions centuries before modern meteor science existed. By comparing Dante’s account to modern theories about asteroid collisions and crater formation, researchers argue that the 14th-century poet was envisioning Earth-changing cosmic events long before scientists understood meteorites. For hundreds of years, readers have interpreted the coming of Satan. Divine Comedy as a spiritual fall from grace. But Timothy Barbary of Marshall University believes that Dante may have been…

Babies born to patients with endometriosis have a small but significant increased risk of congenital abnormalities (often called birth defects), a new US study has found. CMJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250439. Endometriosis is a chronic, often painful inflammatory disease in which endometrial-like tissue grows outside the uterus. It affects one in 10 women of reproductive age and can affect fertility. The study included ICES data on more than 1.4 million births in Ontario, of which 33,619 were infants with endometriosis. A total of 2,120 (6.3%) infants with some congenital anomaly were born to patients with endometriosis, and 77,094 (5.4%)…

A Virginia Tech disease ecologist said the outbreak of Andean hantavirus on the international cruise ship MV Hondius highlights how little scientists still know about the virus quietly circulating in wild rodent populations before infecting humans. Most hantaviruses infect humans through animal-to-human transmission, but the Andean strain can spread from person to person, highlighting global vulnerabilities in interconnected travel networks. Viruses with the ability to infect multiple species and spread silently between people require serious attention before an outbreak spreads. Most of our research on zoonotic viruses remains reactive, studying viruses after they have spilled into humans rather than…