Moral distress, compassion fatigue, and burnout—these are the effects of long-term stressors on healthcare workers, the price of providing care. A recent survey by the UK organization MDDUS highlights how serious the situation is. The data should serve as a warning to professional bodies and healthcare management in other countries, including the Czech Republic. Legislative, organizational, and educational interventions are necessary to prevent the harmful impact of exhausted healthcare workers on the quality of care provided.

You've probably heard that we should throw away egg yolks and eat only the whites to avoid high cholesterol. But you've also likely heard that we should eat lots of eggs and cut out nearly all carbs instead. So how do we navigate the storm of conflicting nutrition advice? What do scientific studies actually say about the impact of egg consumption on human health?

Women scientists have contributed to medicine with a number of discoveries that, although they have not won the prestigious Nobel Prize, are very significant. We have selected nine women researchers and the results of their work.

Between 1901 and 2024, 976 individuals—including only 65 women—and 28 organizations received the Nobel Prize. Specifically, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 115 times to 229 laureates, among whom there are only 13 women, with half of them receiving this honor in the 21st century. Below is an overview of these 13 female laureates who have significantly influenced modern medicine.

A recent study published in the journal Microbiome described a potentially protective role of citrus fruits in the incidence of depression. The connection involves a bacterium present in the gut microbiome—Faecalibacterium prausnitzii—whose growth is stimulated by citrus fruits, influencing serotonin and dopamine production.

A recent study published in the journal Microbiome described a potentially protective role of citrus fruits in the incidence of depression. The connection is linked to a type of bacteria present in the gut microbiome—Faecalibacterium prausnitzii—whose growth is stimulated by citrus fruits and which influences the production of serotonin and dopamine.

Type 2 diabetes is a heterogeneous disease, whose pathophysiology results from various disruptions in glucose metabolism. According to some experts, current diagnostic methods do not provide sufficient information about individual metabolic deviations. A research team led by Ahmed A. Metwally from Stanford University, in a study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, proposes a method that identifies metabolic subphenotypes of type 2 diabetes using continuous glucose monitoring and machine learning algorithms. This new method…