UNBELIEVABLE: 3 - The Untold Story

7 Subtle Signs Your Child May Have Low Iron Levels

A child can look cheerful, active and perfectly healthy while their body quietly struggles with a lack of iron. There may be no obvious warning signs at first, making it easy for parents to overlook a problem that can affect growth, energy and learning. Iron deficiency does not always show…

MyLifeXP · Oct 23

A Routine Sugar Drink Test Left a 29-Year-Old Man Unable to Stand, and His Thyroid Was the Culprit

A glucose drink for a blood sugar test sent a man's potassium to 1.8 and weakened all four limbs, revealing undiagnosed Graves' disease.

Medical Daily · Oct 23

6 Ways a Blood Report Marked Normal Can Still Hide a Real Problem

A blood report comes back normal and most people stop there. The relief is understandable, but the word normal on a lab printout means something narrower than most patients assume. Reference ranges are built from population averages, and a result that sits inside those averages is not the same as…

Times Life · Oct 23

Coroner weeps as sister speaks of young sibling's death

A coroner has been left in tears after a grieving sister remembered an eight-year-old girl who died when her insulin was withheld by her fundamentalist parents.

AAP · Oct 22

The Dense Mass Beside an 80-Year-Old Woman's Jaw on CT Was Actually Her Cough Candy

A bright oval mass in an 80-year-old woman's cheek on CT puzzled radiologists until she revealed what she had been sucking on during the scan.

Medical Daily · Oct 21

Conversation Cards Were Linked to Better Medicine Use in Connecticut Diabetes Trial, but Blood Sugar Did Not Improve

In a New Haven trial, simple conversation cards were linked to better diabetes medicine use but did not lower blood sugar or ease the burden of the disease.

Medical Daily · Oct 21

Beauty firms chase 'Ozempic face' market as weight-loss drugs boom

Galderma, Natura, and L'Oreal are developing treatments for consumers experiencing facial sagging due to rapid weight loss. These companies are responding to increased demand linked to the popularity of GLP-1 obesity drugs. Experts indicate that rapid weight loss may lead to skin laxity and diminished facial volume. While existing treatments…

The Economic Times · Oct 21

Beef and Lamb Sugar Tied to 63% Higher Diabetes Risk, but Red Meat Itself May Explain the Link

A sugar in red meat called Neu5Gc was tied to a 63% higher type 2 diabetes risk, but the link lost significance once researchers accounted for red meat intake.

Medical Daily · Oct 21

A Man's Red, Swollen Calf Looked Like a Blood Clot, but MRI Found Fat Crowding Into the Muscle

A 76-year-old's painful, swollen calf looked like a blood clot. MRI instead found fat infiltrating muscle weakened by diabetic nerve damage.

Medical Daily · Oct 21

We asked people taking GLP-1s what happened when their expectations met reality

‘All my clothes are falling off me,’ one GLP-1 user told The Independent

The Independent UK · Oct 20