This week’s Medical Minute discusses an emerging concept about why women tend to retain salt more than men and a hormone that plays a key role.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses the propensity for “salt sensitivity” among women and the heart disease risk that results. 

This week's Medical Minute discusses tiny worms that are playing a big role in research into how a toxic protein which is linked to Parkinson's Disease makes its way from the gut to the brain.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses Lewy Bodies, a toxic protein that gums up the works of neurons, resulting in problems like uncontrolled movement and cognitive decline in patients with Parkinson’s Disease. 

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new vibrating capsule doctors think can help people experiencing painful, debilitating chronic constipation. 

This week's Medical Minute discusses two top killers: Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease. A gene mutation makes one group of people particularly susceptible to both.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses Optical Genome Mapping, which will improve patient outcomes following a cancer diagnosis.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses new investigations into the connection between potassium and physical symptoms associated with chronic stress. 

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a potential new “early warning system” to spot chronic rejection in organ transplant recipients.  

This week’s Medical Minute discusses how subcutaneous fat plays a different role in males versus females when it comes to the brain inflammation that contribute to dementia and stroke.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new study looking directly at whether certain negative social determinants play a role in the prevalence of Peripheral Artery Disease in black adult populations.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses new laboratory evidence that an old blood pressure medicine may help weaken traumatic memories that lead to debilitating PTSD.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses the relationship between tryptophan, the amino acid that contributes to the sleepiness we feel after the big Thanksgiving meal, and “Kynurenine”, an important ingredient in the fuel that powers our cells.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses “Tryptophan”, the amino acid that contributes to our feeling sleepy after the big Thanksgiving meal, but is also key to many other body functions.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses findings by mathematical modelers that indicate the number of people who contracted COVID-19 worldwide, and the number of people who died as a result, may be far larger than initially reported.