In 2015, one study found a hot drink containing echinacea to be as good as prescription Tamiflu for treating the virus influenza. A large study in 2012 found echinacea reduced the number of days ...

Maintaining a balanced lifestyle can be challenging in today’s fast-paced world. With stress levels soaring and busy schedules taking precedence, it’s no wonder many individuals feel overwhelmed and ...

Leptin is a hormone that helps manage energy. It signals to your brain when you need food or when you’re satiated. But, leptin resistance can cause the brain to miss this signal, which may contribute ...

Researchers have successfully treated two unrelated children with characteristics of leptin dysfunction — including intense hyperphagia, impaired satiety, and severe, early onset obesity — only after ...

Working on genetically engineered obese mice with seriously thickened hearts, a condition call cardiac hypertrophy, scientists at Johns Hopkins have used a nerve protection and growth factor on the ...

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition where the body fails to produce insulin, a crucial hormone for regulating blood sugar levels. Without insulin, the sugar in the body builds up in the bloodstream ...

Hormone absence or inactivity is common in congenital disease, but hormone antagonism remains controversial. Here, we characterize two novel homozygous leptin variants that yielded antagonistic ...

Most obese patients grow resistant to satiety signals from the hormone leptin. A new study shows that leptin sensitivity can be restored in mice, leading to weight loss. Worldwide obesity rates have ...

Obesity has become a global epidemic, and the need for treatment and monitoring for people with obesity is growing.