Do you need another COVID-19 booster?
As the U.S. enters its third year of the pandemic, COVID-19 cases are at an all-time high thanks to the highly transmissible omicron variant.
Unlike...
Custom finger clip offers a new way to measure blood pressure
Monitoring a person's blood pressure on a regular basis can help health care professionals with early detection of various health problems such as high...
Top 10 worst foods for people with diabetes
One part of living with diabetes everyone has to think about is what they eat.
Eating the recommended amount of food from the five food...
Best way to measure blood pressure in people with obesity
What’s the best way to measure blood pressure in surgical patients with obesity?
While oscillometry using blood-pressure cuffs is the standard, in patients with obesity,...
Fitness for a healthy heart: What you need to know
Being physically active is a major step toward good heart health.
It's one of your most effective tools for strengthening the heart muscle, keeping your weight...
Daily habits other than food costing diabetics high blood sugars
You may have heard people say they have “a touch of diabetes” or that their “sugar is a little high.”
These words suggest that diabetes...
11 things hidden depression make you do
Depression is not a condition that has one specific cause. It can happen for many different reasons and have many triggers. Usually, depression doesn't...
COVID-19 linked to PTSD, study shows
Illness, grief, job loss, social isolation, uncertainty, and other pandemic-driven stressors have contributed to an increase in psychological distress on an unusually wide scale.
In...
Common heart attack treatment has damaging effects
In a new study from Indiana University, researchers challenge standard treatment methods used to prevent muscle damage during heart attack.
They found that a common...
How to treat and prevent heart attack in people with diabetes
In a new study from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, researchers found how to treat and prevent serious events like a heart attack...