A team from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center has just published a paper in JAMA Network Open describing oral nicotine pouch usage – one of the first papers to look at how common this product is.

Pain researchers have dug 100 years into the past to work toward a better future for people with diabetic neuropathy. Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have shown a signature pattern in the death of human nerve cells that could be the source of the now-unsolvable pain suffered by more than 10 million Americans. Diabetic neuropathy is the sharp, shooting pain in the extremities that the CDC estimates affects nearly one-third of the 38 million diabetics in the United States. The discovery could provide a uniquely effective target for medications for the condition. Pain researchers have dug 100 years into the past to work toward a better future for people with diabetic neuropathy. Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have shown a signature pattern in the death of human nerve cells that could be the source of the now-unsolvable pain suffered by more than 10 million Americans. Diabetic neuropathy is the sharp, shooting pain in the extremities that the CDC estimates affects nearly one-third of the 38 million diabetics in the United States. The discovery could provide a uniquely effective target for medications for the condition.

Study followed tracked over 1,500 older adults for a decade using three rounds of data from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project. Led by Lissette Piedra, a professor of social work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and James Iveniuk, a senior research scientist at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center; the team identified three types of social networks — enriched, focused and restricted — that reflected how socially connected people were as they aged and how their self-rated health was affected.