These simple lifestyle changes can lower high blood pressure
High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is a common condition that can lead to serious health problems like heart disease, stroke, and kidney damage...
Why does my hip hurt? Hip pain can have many causes and mostly doesn’t...
You can feel hip pain at any stage of life, including childhood, young adulthood and the middle years.
This can come as a surprise; many...
How gut diseases can affect your mental health
Living with gut problems like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can be difficult, both physically and emotionally.
These conditions are part of a group called...
Living longer with tailored chemotherapy—despite incurable cancer
Just a few months ago, Ragnhild Vigdis Langli (70) was planning her own funeral.
She contacted her local church and wrote a letter to her...
AI tool speeds up kidney cancer detection
A new AI-powered tool is helping doctors find kidney cancer faster and more accurately.
Researchers from the University of Tartu, working with the company Better...
How exercise works like medicine for high blood pressure
Linda Pescatello, a top expert in kinesiology at the University of Connecticut, is a well-known researcher studying how exercise can be used as medicine.
Her...
Carbs in your diet may be the key to dementia prevention
A new study has found that the type and amount of carbohydrates you eat could play a big role in whether you develop dementia...
Study finds new therapy to treat heart failure
More than 64 million people around the world live with heart failure. In the United States alone, about 6.7 million people have this serious...
Even low doses of artificial sweetener aspartame may harm heart and brain
A new study has found that using artificial sweeteners like aspartame for a long time might harm your heart and brain.
This research was done...
A simple pill could save millions from heart attacks and strokes
Heart disease is the number one cause of death all over the world. It can lead to dangerous health problems like heart attacks, strokes,...