How anxiety affects your blood pressure – and what you can do
Anxiety is something everyone feels from time to time.
It’s that nervous or uneasy feeling you might get before a big event, a test, or...
HPV vaccine can even help unvaccinated women, study finds
A major long-term study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine has confirmed that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine works extremely well—not...
Continuous glucose monitors may not help control blood sugar in people with no diabetes
Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are wearable devices that track blood sugar levels in real time.
They are helpful for people with type 2 diabetes to...
Brain change with age may explain memory loss
A new study from the University of California, Irvine has found that aging affects the shape of our brains in ways that can be...
Ignore cholesterol until middle age? Here’s why that’s a bad idea
Heather Bowers doesn’t recall all the details of her first cholesterol screening.
It was at a college health fair two decades ago, and even though...
Is your leg pain actually PAD? Watch for these warning signs
Sometimes, aches and pains get dismissed as a normal part of getting older. In the case of peripheral artery disease, or PAD, those pains...
Popular hair-loss drug is linked to depression and suicide
For over 20 years, millions of men have taken finasteride to stop hair loss.
But behind its promise of thicker hair, a growing body of...
Study shows exercise saves heartbeats and may add years to life
A common myth says we’re all born with a set number of heartbeats, and if you use them up through exercise, you’ll die sooner.
But...
How diabetes drugs may protect kidneys inflammation
A new study from Northwestern Medicine has discovered how some diabetes drugs may help protect the kidneys, not just by lowering blood sugar, but...
New cannabis extract shows real promise for chronic back pain
A new study has found that a specially developed cannabis extract can relieve chronic lower back pain.
This is the first high-quality evidence showing that...