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TUESDAY, July 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Customers buying creams, patches or lotions containing cannabidiol (CBD) to reduce pain or inflammation may get much more or much less than they expected.Topical CBD products are gaining popularity in the United States, and the authors of a new study say the science hasn't kept up. “Overall, this study and other studies before it just kind of speak to the need for improved regulatory oversight of cannabis products generally,” said researcher Tory Spindle, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore. “The product innovation has far outpaced science and has far outpaced our ability to regulate them. I think we really need to kind of reel it back in," Spindle...

TUESDAY, July 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Intermittent fasting might help people with type 2 diabetes better control their blood sugar levels, a new study has found.People with diabetes who restricted their eating to within a daily 10-hour window wound up with blood sugar levels in the normal range for about three hours longer than when they ate whenever they pleased, the researchers reported. These patients also experienced lower 24-hour blood sugar levels and consistently lower morning fasting glucose when they participated in a time-restricted eating pattern, the investigators found.“Time-restricted eating may be an effective approach to improving metabolic health in adults with type 2 diabetes, but more studies are needed to confirm this finding,” said lead researcher...

TUESDAY, July 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- About 30% of adults around the world have a buildup of fat in the liver, a condition called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Now an international team of researchers has linked that condition to a heightened risk of heart failure. NAFLD, as it is called for short, is increasing rapidly because of rising rates of overweight and obesity, the researchers noted. They reviewed 11 long-term studies from five countries (United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, Sweden and Finland) that were published through March 2022. They looked at the links between this type of liver disease and heart failure among more than 11 million middle-aged adults. Half the participants were women, with an average age of 55 and an average BMI (body mass index) of 26, a...

TUESDAY, July 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Black patients should start screening early for glaucoma, because they have a high risk of vision loss caused by elevated pressure levels inside the eye, researchers say.A team from New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai found that African heritage was an independent risk factor for primary open angle glaucoma, the most common form of the disease.Glaucoma, a condition of increased pressure within the eye, is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. It typically has no symptoms until patients have permanent vision loss.Researchers said they suspect the disease begins one to two decades earlier in Black people than in other ethnic and racial groups."This study has tremendous implications for glaucoma screening of Blacks, who...