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Eating cranberries everyday can improve your heart health

In a recent study from King’s College London, researchers found daily eating cranberries for one-month improved heart function in healthy men. Low consumption of fruits...

COVID-19 can increase stroke risk in younger patients, study finds

Scientists from Thomas Jefferson University found that stroke patients with COVID-19 are facing worse outcomes and are often younger and healthier. People with COVID-19 are...

Depression drug ketamine unlikely to cause addiction

Scientists from the University of Geneva found that ketamine is unlikely to be addictive to people who use it for extended periods of time. The...

Poor sleep linked to fatty liver disease, study finds

Scientists from Sun Yat-sen University found that people with sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy sleep behaviours could develop fatty liver disease. The research is published in...

Scientists find key to controlling spread of new COVID variants

Scientists from Yale School of Public Health emphasize the continuing importance of vaccines and booster shots in controlling infections from highly contagious new variants...

Rapid loss of smell can predict dementia, Alzheimer’s disease

Scientists from the University of Chicago found not only can a decline in a person's sense of smell over time predict their loss of...

Obesity may increase risk of this inflammatory bowel disease

In a recent study from Norfolk and elsewhere, researchers found that obesity, as measured by body mass index (BMI), is linked to an increased...

COVID-19 vaccine patch fights variants better than needles

Scientists from the University of Queensland found a needle-free vaccine patch could better fight COVID-19 variants, such as Omicron and Delta, than a traditional...

54% of younger U.S. adults suffers from a chronic disease, study finds

Scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than half of young adults between the ages 18 and 34...

‘Natural immunity’ from COVID-19 omicron can be limited and weak

In a recent study from Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco, researchers found that in unvaccinated people, infection with the omicron variant of COVID-19...