For smokers, this may be the first sign of heart disease
It's long been known that smoking greatly raises the risk for heart disease and stroke.
But in a new study, researchers found the first sign...
This heart problem strongly increases risk of severe COVID-19 and death
In a new study from Intermountain Healthcare, researchers found that patients with atrial fibrillation, the most common type of heart arrhythmia in adults, are...
If you take statins to lower cholesterol, you need to exercise to protect muscles
In a new study from Wageningen University, researchers found a moderate-intensity endurance and resistance exercise training program improves muscle performance in statin users without...
Scientists find new types of a blood cancer and potential treatments
In a new study from Mount Sinai, researchers developed a new model that uses DNA and RNA sequencing data from hundreds of patients to...
When dancer kept fainting, an EKG finally revealed why
Looking back, Daniela Leonhardt's first indication something was amiss with her heart happened in December 2010, when she fainted before an Irish dance competition.
At...
Exercise can boost your body’s own ‘cannabis’ and reduce chronic inflammation
In a new study from the University of Nottingham, researchers found exercise increases the body's own cannabis-like substances.
This in turn helps reduce inflammation and...
Many people recovered from COVID-19 get cognitive problems
In a recent study published in EClinicalMedicine, researchers found evidence of cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19.
They found that those with...
This study finds the root cause of ‘long COVID’
In a recent study published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, researchers found that patients with long COVID syndrome continue to have higher...
Young sisters battle different types of heart disease
Having spent the day at a cousin's cookout, 25-year-old Kelli Tinney and her 27-year-old sister Amanda went back to their house, turned on the...
COVID-19 booster shot can help most people with cancer
In a new study from the Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center, researchers found most cancer patients who had no measurable immune response after being fully...