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26/07/2025

Levothyroxine sodium recall since June 2025

Check your pills’ lot number and if it’s one of these ones affected, call your doctor for advice.

The recalled drugs are manufactured by India-based Intas Pharmaceuticals for North Carolina-based Accord Healthcare, NTD reported. They total 160,630 bottles and come in various doses, strengths, and packages, including:

Lot D2400536; expiration date, Feb. 28, 2026
Lot D2300325; expiration date, Jan. 31, 2026
Lot D2400679; expiration date, Feb. 28, 2026
Lot D2300087; expiration date, Dec. 31, 2025
Lot D2300092; expiration date, Dec. 31, 2025
Lot D2400722; expiration date, March 31, 2026
Lot D2300104; expiration date, Dec. 31, 2025
Lot D2300076; expiration date, Dec. 31, 2025
Lot D2300042; expiration date, Dec. 31, 2025
More information

More details on the recalled thyroid pills can be found on the FDA’s website.

SOURCES: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, alert, July 23, 2025; NTD, July 23, 2025

https://www.healthday.com/health-news/fda-upgrades-recall-on-160000-bottles-of-thyroid-medication

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THURSDAY, July 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has upgraded a recall of a commonly prescribed thyroid medication due to

25/07/2025

Egg consumption may help reduce Alzheimer's risk

A study in the Journal of Nutrition found that eating more than one egg per week was associated with a 47% reduction in the risk of Alzheimer's disease. The study followed more than 1,000 adults for an average of 6.7 years and found 39% of the "total effect of egg intake" was linked to the choline content in eggs.
Sad that misguided past medical advice, taught a whole generation of people to avoid eggs -and mainly egg yolks- because of natural cholesterol content.
Thus, a superfood was avoided, to make room for fad foods like “low-fat yogurt” (same calories from starch and sugar but missing the fatty vitamins in milk).

About 39% of egg benefits came from choline intake, researchers found.

25/07/2025

Ma*****na is not quite harmless.
An overdose with THC cannabis extract can turn out really unpleasant for the user, as illustrated in this medical report of unintended ingestion of THC by customers of a restaurant in Wisconsin - as it happened last year:

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a psychoactive substance found in Cannabis sativa plants, including varieties such as h**p, is increasingly being used in consumer products. On October 24, 2024, local emergency medical services reported to Public Health Madison & Dane County (PHMDC) in Wisconsin that since October 22, they had transported seven persons to a local hospital for various symptoms, including dizziness, sleepiness, and anxiety. All seven persons reported having recently eaten food from the same local restaurant. Investigation by PHMDC determined that on October 22, the restaurant had run out of cooking oil and used oil from a cooperative (i.e., shared) kitchen located in the same building. One of the vendors who used the kitchen made edible products using h**p-derived Δ9-THC. On October 24, PHMDC posted a food and symptom history questionnaire on its website and shared the link via press release and social media. Among 107 responses that were considered valid, 85 persons met the following case definition of THC intoxication: 1) ate pizza, garlic bread, cheese bread, or a grinder (submarine sandwich) purchased from the restaurant during October 22–24 and 2) reported at least one symptom of THC intoxication that began within 5 hours after eating the restaurant’s food, defined as dizziness, sleepiness, anxiety, short term memory impact or time distortion, increased heart rate, nausea, paranoia, panic attack, increased blood pressure, vomiting, or hallucinations.

This report describes THC intoxication among patrons ...

18/07/2025

Limits remain. AlphaGenome struggles to capture interactions that are more than 100,000 DNA letters away, can miss some tissue-specific nuances and is not designed to predict traits from a complete personal genome. Complex diseases that depend on development or environment also lie outside its direct scope. The system does suggest wide-ranging uses, however: By tracing how minute changes ripple through gene regulation, it could pinpoint the roots of genetic disorders. It could help in the design of synthetic DNA. And above all, it could offer a faster way to chart the genome’s complex regulatory circuitry.

This AI system can analyze up to one million DNA letters at once, predicting how tiny changes in noncoding regions trigger everything from cancer to rare genetic disorders—and potentially revolutionizing personalized medicine

23/05/2025

“The duodenum in type 2 diabetes does not just show passive damage; it actively adapts maladaptively, likely perpetuating metabolic dysfunction,” he said. “We were also surprised by how early and diffuse some of these changes appeared, even in patients not yet on insulin or with only moderate elevations in glycemia.”

SAN DIEGO — An AI-driven, 3D spatial multimodal analysis exposed substantial immune and structural dysregulation of the duodenum in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week.This concept of “diabetic duodenopathy” — and the insig...

21/05/2025

Sunlight Therapy

Exposure to UV light, the highest-energy band of the electromagnetic spectrum reaching Earth’s surface, calms an out-of-control immune system and might quell the symptoms of various autoimmune diseases, writes journalist and book author Rowan Jacobsen. Early evidence shows that “phototherapy” reduces the severity of multiple sclerosis symptoms and seems to hush an immune system’s attack on the very-same body it usually defends from viruses, bacteria and other pathogens. The findings have launched a discipline called photoimmunology, which is investigating whether sunlight also can help to heal people with type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and other autoimmune diseases. These conditions, along with Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease, are more common among people who have less exposure to sunlight.

How it works: Starting in the 1980s, researchers thought that sunlight exposure protected us from cancer and several other diseases by producing Vitamin D in the skin, but it’s not that simple. The search is on for a disease-inhibiting “golden molecule” among the various hormones, neurotransmitters and other vitamin D-like compounds produced when our skin is exposed to UV light.

What the experts say: “You get this rebalancing. UV light calms inflammation in the skin. But it also then calms inflammation in the central nervous system. It’ll calm inflammation in the pancreas and the gut. So I think it’s not fully realized the potential it has to be a controller of body homeostasis,” says Prue Hart, an immunologist at the Kids Research Institute Australia.

Hope you all get some sun this weekend!

09/05/2025

Persistent high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia) in youth raises the risk for heart disease
A study in the journal Diabetes Care found that persistent hyperglycemia and elevated insulin resistance may lead to an increased risk of cardiac damage in young people with mostly normal BMI. The research followed 1,595 individuals ages 17 to 24 and found a fivefold increase in hyperglycemia and a threefold increase in left ventricular hypertrophy over the period.

Persistent hyperglycemia and insulin resistance increased the risk for functional and structural cardiac damage in youth, despite normal BMI, according to a recent prospective study.

07/05/2025

Early vitamin D levels may affect later CVD risks

Low levels of vitamin D in childhood may increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in adulthood, according to a study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Data on more than 3,500 people found those with vitamin D levels below 37 nmol/L in childhood had a higher risk of CVD events as adults.

Conclusion: let the kids play outside in the sun more often - and enjoy it yourself next to them.

Low levels of 25-OH vitamin D during childhood are associated with an increased future risk for adult-onset atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events.

07/05/2025

Gestational diabetes linked to neurodevelopmental risks in babies

Gestational diabetes, a condition affecting up to 27.6% of pregnancies, is associated with a higher likelihood of children developing neurodevelopmental disorders, according to a comprehensive study published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. The research highlighted an adjusted risk ratio of 1.18 for neurodevelopmental issues in children born to mothers with gestational diabetes, emphasizing the need for careful management during pregnancy. When mothers had preexisting diabetes (of either type 1, 2 or other kinds), the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders was even higher.

Among the most common problems noted in children exposed to diabetes in the womb were:
Intellectual disability
ADHD
Autism
Learning disability.

Treating the diabetes tightly before and in pregnancy is critical to the health of the baby in many ways.

Maternal diabetes was associated with increased risks for neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD and autism, among offspring.

30/04/2025

A 25% US tariff on pharmaceutical imports could raise drug costs by $51 billion annually, increasing prices by up to 12.9%, according to a report by Ernst & Young, which was commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. The report highlights that 73% of pharmaceutical imports come from Europe, mainly Ireland, Germany and Switzerland.
Let’s hope the tariffs do not get imposed for medications.

Trump has repeatedly threatened a 25% tariff on pharmaceutical imports.

30/03/2025

In men, a waist circumference increase of approximately 11 cm was associated with a 25% higher risk of developing obesity-related cancers, whereas a BMI increase of 3.7 kg/m2 corresponded to a 19% increased risk.
After accounting for BMI, high waist circumference still remained a risk factor for obesity-related cancer in men suggesting that the elevated risk associated with abdominal adiposity is not explained by increased body size (as measured by BMI) alone.

Among women, the associations between waist circumference and BMI with obesity-related cancers were weaker and similar to each other.

A plausible explanation is that men are more likely to store fat viscerally, while women generally accumulate more subcutaneous and peripheral fat. Consequently, waist circumference is a more accurate measure of visceral fat in men than in women.
Obesity-related cancers include cancers of the esophagus (adenocarcinoma), gastric (cardia), colorectal, liver/intrahepatic bile ducts, breast, endometrium, meningioma, thyroid, and multiple myeloma.

Findings of a study comparing waist circumference to BMI for predicting the development of obesity-related cancers show that waist circumference is a stronger risk marker in men but not in women.

21/03/2025

Cannabis use linked to cardiovascular risks in young adults

Cannabis use may significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular issues, including heart attacks and strokes, in young adults, according to research that was published in JACC: Advances and will be presented at the ACC.25 conference. A retrospective study involving more than 4.6 million adults under age 50 found an elevated risk of heart attack, heart failure, ischemic stroke and cardiovascular death among users. A meta-analysis of 12 studies involving over 75 million people associated cannabis use with a 50% greater risk of myocardial infarction = heart attack.

“Asking about cannabis use should be part of clinicians' workup to understand patients' overall cardiovascular risk, similar to asking about smoking cigarettes,” one researcher said. Additional details will be presented at ACC.25 in Chicago.