Hollywood, Hollywood. You can’t help but get in your own way, can you? Some of Sunday night’s Oscars, hosted by Conan O’Brien, was very funny, sporadically interesting (there was only the seventh-ever ...

ROME (AP) — One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican's backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The ...

The pancreas is a vital organ that supports important physiological systems, including digestion, endocrine and metabolic functions. One of its primary roles is to regulate blood sugar levels by ...

Agency updates guidance after increase in reports of condition to its yellow card scheme Patients on weight-loss jabs and diabetes injections should be aware there is a small risk of developing severe ...

The shaping of the public sphere is inherently open, created through discourse in time and space. In a time when discourse is challenged, how can we open dialogue and investigate the ephemeral but ...

The pancreas is essential for staying alive and healthy. This small organ sits behind the stomach and has two main jobs. It produces digestive enzymes that break down food and hormones such as insulin ...

Maria Menounos, whose went through surgery in 2017 to remove a meningioma and in 2023 to remove a neuroendocrine cacner of her pancreas,hosts a podcast called the Heal Squad. (Photo: Lemieux Creative ...

Researchers design a novel algorithm for controlling implanted insulin pumps that accounts for the unique characteristics of individual patients. Their model, tested using an FDA-approved diabetes ...

Mohammad Pourhosseinzadeh, M.D./Ph.D. student with Professor Mark Huising, watches undergraduate student Joel Sanchez working at a dissecting microscope. New work led by Pourhosseinzadeh and Huising ...

Duke University scientists have discovered that pancreatic alpha cells, long believed to only produce glucagon, actually generate powerful amounts of GLP-1 — the same hormone mimicked by popular ...