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Many Starbucks drinks contain two to three times the sugar of a glazed doughnut.Some Starbucks offerings pack nearly 10 teaspoons of sugar per Tall (12-ounce) drink.To cut added sugar, skip the sweetener or ask for a single pump, and keep serving sizes small. Whether you’re craving a caffeine kick or just want a cool, frosty drink, Starbucks has something for everyone. Unfortunately, that something can often include a boatload of sugar. In fact, some of Starbucks’ most popular drinks pack more sugar than the 13 grams of sugar in a Dunkin’ glazed doughnut.  To complicate matters, most of these drinks’…

Luke TaylorRio de JaneiroThe famous 5?In April this year the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) agreed to recognise type 5 diabetes, saying that evidence supported a distinct new classification. In a comment published in the Lancet Global Health this week, the IDF urged global health bodies, including the World Health Organization, to follow suit.1Give us the lowdown in 5 Type 5 is a distinct form of diabetes linked to chronic undernutrition and health disparities. Some 25 million people (around 4% of the 589 million people with diabetes globally) are estimated to be affected, most of whom live in South East …

Growing up, it’s easy to take your birthday cake for granted. Sure, I expected one every year because it was a tradition in my family, but the dessert is more than that. It’s special, and defines the day you were born. It embraces the flavors you love, and whether it’s homemade or store-bought, it’s inherently yours in a way no other dessert can be.  As an identical twin, the birthday cake choice carried even more weight. Sharing a birthday was inevitable, but my mom knew that my sister and I needed our individuality. Her solution was simple, but essential: We…

Researchers converted a kidney with type-A blood to type-O.Credit: Sherry Yates Young/Science Photo LibraryScientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person. The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve access to donor organs, specialists say, because the blood type of the donor would no longer matter.Currently, organs from deceased donors can be transplanted into people only if they have a compatible blood type. This is because the recipient’s immune system can produce antibodies to attack and destroy the donated organ if the donor and recipient have different antigens,…

If you’ve ever wondered why your hair feels like straw despite investing in high-end conditioner, or why your skin stays dry no matter how much moisturizer you slather on, the culprit might be lurking in your pipes. Hard water—that mineral-heavy H2O flowing through an estimated 85% of American homes—could be sabotaging your efforts.

One day agoI crawled out of the ruins, only to feel a gun silently pressed against my back.Cautiously, I raised my hands, signalling that I was no threat, and turned around slowly.His face was terrified, exhausted. I guessed he hadn’t slept in a comfortable bed or had a decent meal in a long time — just like me; just like everyone else.But when he saw me, the terror on his face faded, to be replaced by a sense of relief, a kind of peace.I understood why.I saw myself in his eyes: a 14-year-old girl. A victim of the colonizers. A…

In a new paper, scientists have reported the first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to the universal type O using special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia. These enzymes are designed to help prevent a mismatch and rejection of the organ. Details of the work, which was led by scientists from the University of British Columbia, are published in Nature Biomedical Engineering in a paper titled “Enzyme-converted O kidneys allow ABO-incompatible transplantation without hyperacute rejection in a human decedent model.” According to the scientists, an enzyme-converted kidney was transplanted into a brain-dead…

Toxic epidermal necrolysis is a severe, drug-induced immune reaction that causes the detachment of the epidermis over large areas of the body.Image credit:Dr. Med. T. NordmannDuring his training in clinical dermatology, Thierry Nordmann encountered several patients with a rare, horrifying condition called toxic epidermal necrolysis, or TEN. Widely considered to be the only emergency in the field of dermatology, TEN has no effective treatments and is often fatal. “I experienced firsthand what it means not to have specific treatments for this disease, and what that means for the patient,” said Nordmann, a clinician scientist at the Max Planck Institute of…

Researchers came to this conclusion by examining health records for more than 600,000 Korean adults and almost 1,200 American adults who had one of these cardiovascular issues. Before things reached a crisis point, 99 percent of participants in both groups had developed at least one of four common cardiovascular disease risk factors: smoking, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, or high blood sugar.“We often think that heart disease can happen without warning, but there is almost always a warning sign,” says study coauthor Sadiya S. Khan, MD, a professor of cardiovascular epidemiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in…