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This plant-based diet can help reverse heart failure

In a study from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, scientists found that a whole-food plant-based diet reversed heart failure without medications or surgeries. Angina...

Alcohol can increase high blood pressure in people with type 2 diabetes

In a study from Wake Forest School of Medicine, scientists found that drinking alcohol could increase high blood pressure in people with type 2 diabetes. Type...

When to use an at-home colorectal cancer screening test instead of a colonoscopy

Colorectal cancer, or collectively, cancers that develop in the colon and/or rectum, are currently on the rise. The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends...

What is frontotemporal dementia? A neurologist explains

Less than one year after stepping away from acting due to a diagnosis of aphasia, Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, according...

What is Tourette syndrome, the condition Lewis Capaldi lives with?

You might have seen the news fans of singer Lewis Capaldi helped him finish a song at a concert this week, after symptoms of...

Three in five long COVID patients have organ damage a year after infection

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that more than 1.2 million people in the UK report living with long COVID...

While home recovering from COVID-19, she saved her husband’s life

One day last July, Mike Button settled into his home office, ready to start catching up on the backlog of things that had accumulated...

Widely used pain relief drug could increase heart disease, stroke risks

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh recently found that long-term paracetamol use could increase the risk of heart disease and strokes in people with...

Too little sodium can harm people with heart failure

In a study from Creighton University, scientists found for people with heart failure, restricting dietary sodium intake to levels below the standard recommended maximum...

This dietary supplement linked to lower biomarkers of Alzheimer’s in the brain

In a study from the University of Delaware and elsewhere, scientists found that the naturally occurring dietary supplement known as nicotinamide riboside (NR) can...