Health & Wellness
Can Slow Breathing Help Fight Addiction?
Many people recovering from addiction say that cravings are the hardest part of quitting. These powerful urges can appear suddenly and make it difficult...
New Drug Shows New Hope for Women With Rare Brain Disease
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have reported encouraging new evidence that an experimental medicine called Davunetide may slow the progression of progressive supranuclear palsy,...
Can Your First Sugar Exposure Affect Your Dementia Risk Decades Later?
Can the amount of sugar a baby is exposed to before birth influence memory decades later? A new study published in Neurology suggests it...
New DNA Blood Test Could Help Doctors Find Liver Cancer Earlier
An ordinary blood sample may soon help doctors find liver cancer much earlier than is possible today.
Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center...
AI Could Help Detect Heart Failure Before Symptoms Become Severe
Many people with heart failure do not realise they have the condition until it has already caused significant damage.
Early symptoms such as tiredness, breathlessness,...
Magic Mushroom Therapy May Benefit Veterans With PTSD
An experimental treatment that combines psilocybin with intensive psychotherapy has shown encouraging early results for military veterans living with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, according...
Simple Fruit Sugar May Help Ovarian Cancer Spread
Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest cancers affecting women because it is often discovered after it has already spread.
Although many patients respond well...
Early Menopause May Raise the Risk of High Blood Pressure
Menopause is a natural stage of life that marks the end of a woman's menstrual periods. For most women it happens between the ages...
New Discovery May Help Older Muscles Stay Stronger for Longer
As people grow older, muscles naturally become smaller and weaker. This process can make walking, lifting objects, and keeping balance more difficult.
Ageing muscles also...
How a Whole-Grain Compound Influences Gut Movement
A common natural compound found in rice bran may one day help scientists develop new treatments for digestive disorders.
Researchers from Toho University discovered that...
Why One Rare Gene Variant Could Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease
For decades, researchers have wondered why one rare version of the APOE gene seems to protect people from Alzheimer's disease.
A new study from the...
Hidden Chemical May Increase Parkinson’s Disease Risk
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that mainly affects movement. It develops when nerve cells that produce dopamine slowly die.
Dopamine helps the brain...
New 20-Minute Heat Treatment Could Cure a Hidden Cause of High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure affects millions of people around the world and is one of the biggest risk factors for heart disease, stroke, kidney disease,...
Higher-Dose Diabetes Drug Shows Stronger Blood Sugar and Weight Loss Benefits
Diabetes is a long-term condition in which the body cannot properly control the amount of sugar, also called glucose, in the blood.
When blood sugar...
High Creatinine Levels: An Early Warning Sign of Kidney Disease
Creatinine is a waste product that your body makes every day as your muscles work and naturally break down.
Healthy kidneys filter creatinine from the...
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Brain Health
Can Your First Sugar Exposure Affect Your Dementia Risk Decades Later?
Can the amount of sugar a baby is exposed to before birth influence memory decades later? A new study published in Neurology suggests it...
Why One Rare Gene Variant Could Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease
For decades, researchers have wondered why one rare version of the APOE gene seems to protect people from Alzheimer's disease.
A new study from the...
Growing Daytime Sleepiness Could Be an Early Warning Sign of Dementia
Feeling sleepier during the day as we get older may be more important than many people realize.
A new study suggests that older women who...
Why Your Genes May Change How Sleep Affects Your Brain
Alzheimer's disease develops slowly over many years before memory problems become obvious.
Scientists have long known that poor sleep and Alzheimer's risk are connected, but...
Obesity May Send Harmful Signals to the Brain, Raising Alzheimer’s Risk
Many people think Alzheimer's disease begins and ends in the brain.
However, scientists are discovering that changes in other parts of the body may also...