Oregon Health & Science University researchers have found that certain nerves that play an integral role in the body's "fight or flight" stress response can support pancreatic tumor growth. These ...

This video is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Have you ever thought about how your body turns ...

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are often portrayed as sudden breakthroughs, but their roots extend back more than a century. The path from early hormone research to today’s obesity medications is ...

The United Kingdom and Brazil have issued warnings about a possible link between GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and pancreatic inflammation, but the connection is murky.

In an era of overt sexism in the sciences, she made two major discoveries, including identifying a chemical signal in the ...

Ramadevi Subramani Reddy, Ph.D., remembers the neem tree from her childhood in India - a plant her grandmother used to treat everything from fevers to infections. Now, in her Texas Tech Health El Paso ...

In insulin resistance, the pancreas works extra hard to produce more insulin as the body’s cells grow resistant to it, resulting in less glucose being able to enter them to provide energy. (This ...

A little more than a century ago, an arc of research began that culminated in the identification of insulin by four scientists working in Toronto. With astonishing speed, this landmark discovery ...

You may have heard experts discussing insulin resistance and how certain foods and habits can trigger it. However, not many people know exactly what insulin resistance is. Insulin is a hormone your ...

Some of us remember having more energy in our 20s. We could work late, sleep badly, have a night out, recover quickly and still feel capable the next day. By our 40s, that ease has often gone. Fatigue ...