Heart fitness tied to lower risk for colon and lung cancer
A new study conducted by The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences found a strong association between higher cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and a...
COVID-19 testing at home: why you should do it more than once
COVID-19 is a sickness caused by a virus. The virus is called SARS-CoV-2.
We have different ways to check if someone has this virus. One...
Supermarket sweep: shopping carts to detect heart disease
Supermarket shopping carts can now help save your life. They can help spot a heart condition called atrial fibrillation. Detecting this early can help...
Simple breakdown: new clues in fighting bowel cancer
Big news in the battle against cancer! A team from the University of Otago has made a big discovery.
They have found something important that...
Repurposing cancer drugs to fight neuroinflammatory diseases
Repurposing existing FDA-approved drugs for alternative treatments offers a faster route to introducing new therapies.
In a pioneering effort, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden...
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder have an imbalance of brain chemicals – our discovery could...
People often jokingly say they’ve “got a bit of OCD” (obsessive-compulsive disorder) if they are overly organised or tidy.
But OCD is actually a severe...
Healing hearts with meditation: how it helps heart patients
Heart patients may find help in an unexpected place: meditation.
A new study presented at a big conference, the ESC Preventive Cardiology 2023, found that...
Metformin could reduce risk of joint disease in people with diabetes
Osteoarthritis is a persistent issue that plagues millions around the world, causing joint pain severe enough to necessitate joint replacements.
As it stands, there are...
Stop smoking early could help improve cancer survival
Lung cancer is responsible for one in five cancer deaths in the U.S., and smoking is largely to blame.
Since the number of smokers has...
The connection between diabetes and frozen shoulder: an in-depth look
Frozen shoulder, a painful condition limiting shoulder movement, appears to have a higher incidence among individuals with diabetes.
Led by scholar Brett Paul Dyer from...