Carolyn Colwell

Unexpectedly, transgender women faced less discrimination when they had HIV.

Managing HIV is tough for people ages 50 and older, but it gets better.

Revealing an HIV-positive status to family and friends isn't easy.

Research found that some women are more susceptible to become infected with HIV.

An awakening in the midst of surgery is a patient’s and an anesthesiologist’s nightmare. British scientists have developed a new way to prevent that.

Patients with multiple sclerosis may have excess iron in their brains, a possible explanation for brain atrophy, the debilitating condition some develop. If so, the culprit is likely leaky red blood cells, a UK team reported.

A research team has come up with a road map for physicians helping patients with multiple sclerosis feel less tired and lethargic. It's called the Berlin Treatment Algorithm.

New methods are needed to study whether diet changes really help in multiple sclerosis.

There are a lot of tasty things that people with diabetes should not eat. But butter is not one of them, a study found.

Authors of a new study noted that one type of one form of arsenic, trivalent DMA, inhibits insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in cultured fat cells. They considered arsenic exposure a risk factor for type 1 diabetes.

Aiming to investigate the metabolic changes that occur before the onset of non-alcoholic fatty live disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes, researchers found that insulin resistance and waist circumference were associated with NAFLD among women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (pGDM).

Body heat loss, among other things, triggers “glucose oxidation and turnover and thereby improves glucose tolerance and peripheral glucose intake,” study authors wrote. The cold provokes physiological reactions to create energy to restore body heat.

Phase 3 trials showed that empaglifloxin (Jardiance/Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly) can reduce blood pressure in type 2 patients.

Several studies have ranked states by how fat its residents are. A new one looks at diabetes rates as well, and paints a picture of "diabesity" in the US.

The US is obsessed with eliminating odors, but a survey showed that trend may be unhealthy.

Personality traits such as being calm and organized are associated with types of uveitis, researchers in India found.

Adulthood for juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients doesn’t eliminate the risk for uveitis-related visual complications, but a recent Dutch study reported that for most the outcomes appear to be “fairly good.” The caveat, however, was that one-third of the patients in study became visually impaired or blind in one eye as young adults.

A vaginal ring can protect women from HIV infection but women who are in physically abusive relationships fear using it.

The results of two recent phase 3 trials of a new biologic show that it has significant impact as an add-on treatment in reducing exacerbation rates in patients with severe and uncontrolled asthma.

Researchers know that cigarette smoke is hazardous to children, even when it is secondhand. But the impact marijuana smoke has on kids in households where adults smoke cannabis been little studied.

Weight plays different sex-related roles in the likelihood children with asthma will be able to control their condition in early adulthood, a Danish study found.

A UK study suggests that asthma starts in-utero and is triggered by mothers' health. Maternal smoking plays a role.

“As more states pass laws legalizing recreational marijuana, legislators and health care professionals will need to consider strategies to decrease its effect on young children.”

Bioethics programs have grown and they are turning out thousands of graduates, but a degree doesn't necessarily mean a job.

Half of very young children with ADHD are treated with medication rather than the behavioral modification that the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended as first-line treatment, a CDC report finds.

As long as they are able, people with multiple sclerosis should sit less and move around more. Sedentary behavior worsens the disease, a UK team reports.

A possible connection between Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a genetic malfunction in the thalamus may explain the distractibility and physical restlessness that plague children and adults with ADHD,

Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients at diagnosis have a higher rate of comorbid conditions -- including depression and diabetes Canadian researchers found.The intriguing question is whether such conditions put people at higher risk of MS.

Heavy, persistent pot use is bad news for those who hope to be financially and socially successful by midlife.

Refractory cases of myasthenia gravis can be relieved by a new treatment based on replacing a patient’s immune system with new one created from transplants of his own stem cells, Canadian researchers report.