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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Gut hormones could hold the key to fighting fatty liver disease

Fatty liver disease is a growing global health concern. Proglucagon-derived peptides (PGDPs), including glucagon, GLP-1, and GLP-2, are known to regulate lipid metabolism in the liver. However, the mechanism underlying this remains unelucidated. Now, researchers have investigated the role of PGDPs, including glucagon, GLP-1, and GLP-2, in fat accumulation in the liver using GCGKO mice deficient in these peptides.

Despite medical advances, life expectancy gains are slowing

After nearly doubling over the 20th century, the rate of increase in life expectancy has slowed considerably in the last three decades, according to a new study.

We were not treated as parents, Covid inquiry told

Mum of premature twins says rigid restrictions on birthing wards during Covid were traumatic....

Air pollution inside Philly’s subway is much worse than on the streets

The air quality in the City Hall subway station in downtown Philadelphia is much worse than on the sidewalks directly above the station. That is a key finding of our new study ^[1] published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.

We are an environmental scientist ^[2] and a biochemist ^[3] who assessed the air quality at the 15th Street-City Hall station in Philadelphia. We focused on this station...

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