There are several potential health benefits of figs, from promoting digestion and heart health to potentially managing blood ...

Eating bugs is still very taboo in Western culture, but insects actually provide a lot of health benefits ... once you can ...

One of the UK’s largest breed of spiders have had the biggest mating season on record as efforts to re-establish the species ...

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...

According to the study, first presented at the Endocrine Society's 97th annual meeting, a compound in onions, Allium cepa, ...

Cells expressing PAX8 (nucleus, red) considered podocyte precursors, line the outer Bowman’s capsule. Activated during the low salt-fasting mimicking diet (LS-FMD), the cells migrate and ...

A specialized low-salt fasting-mimicking diet revives kidney function in preclinical animal models and patients with chronic ...

Flamingo Images - stock.adobe.com Good news for people who skipped the gym today — weekend warriors may be just as likely to lower their risk of mild dementia as gym rats, a new study finds.

Plasma and aaPVAT were harvested from Dahl SS rats fed a high-fat (HF) or a control (CON) diet for 8 (♂=20, ♀=20), 16 (♂=10, ♀=10) and 24 (♂=14, ♀=14) wks. Mean arterial pressure (MAP±SEM; mmHg) was ...

Swimming in toilets, scurrying through backyards and even interfering with a local badminton game — rats are once again plaguing part of the city, this time on one street in Old Ottawa East. Like ...