The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

Hone Health explains that while high levels of cortisol can contribute to weight gain in women, changes in other hormones ...

New research from Cardiff University suggests that children who snack or graze throughout the day, instead of eating regular ...

The liver is the body's control tower for metabolism, powering vital functions like converting nutrients to glucose, storing fat and breaking down toxins. Over a third of the world, however, is ...

When you're hungry, ghrelin hormone levels increase in your stomach and other parts of your body. Learn what causes its ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they seized more than 70 shipments of counterfeit human growth hormone and other chemicals in Chicago. The fake goods were found in an operation ...

The human body relies on an internal thermostat, primarily governed by the hypothalamus, to maintain a stable temperature around 37 degrees Celsius. But this balance is challenged in hot and humid ...

It produces and secretes hormones that control growth, sexual development, metabolism, and the body’s response to stress. Panhypopituitarism occurs when the production and release of the ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a ...

Recently, the opportunity arose to study the effects of small doses of human growth hormone in 3 patients suffering from hypoglycemia, of whom 2 had islet-cell carcinoma of the pancreas ...

IGF1 is the key growth-hormone-dependent effector protein regulating human linear growth; therefore, GHI involves disturbance in the production or action of IGF1. GHI describes a range of ...

7 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Neurology, Boston, MA, United States of America 8 Harvard Medical School, Neurology, Boston, MA, United States of America Background Inclusion body myositis (IBM ...