Weight loss surgery may strongly benefit people with liver disease
In a study published in JAMA, researchers found that patients with obesity and advanced fatty liver disease who had bariatric weight loss surgery strongly lowered...
Vascular dementia: What you need to know
Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimer’s disease, affecting almost a third of people over age 70.
Dementia causes a decline...
COVID-19: Where do we go from here?
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed their guidelines for mask wearing a few weeks ago, loosening their recommendations for areas with low to...
People with cancer do benefit from COVID-19 vaccination
Cancer patients who have compromised immune systems due to their disease or therapy remain at high risk for COVID-19 infection.
It is why this population...
Healthy lifestyle could greatly reduce Alzheimer’s disease risk, shows study
In a recent study supported by NIH, researchers found that combining more healthy lifestyle behaviors may help substantially lower the risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Those...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: What you need to know
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a condition in which excess fat builds up in your liver. This buildup of fat is not caused by...
This study shows a new biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease
In a recent study published in Nature Aging, researchers found a new biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease.
They reported how declines in a measure of brain network...
Exercise may treat diabetes, depressions in long COVID-19
In a new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, researchers found while no medically recognized treatment exists for Long COVID, exercise may break the...
Stroke survivor never lost fluency in the language of dance, art and song
When Paula Gallagher arrived at a rehabilitation center five days after her stroke, she felt overwhelmed and devastated.
She also couldn't speak. The clot that...
Meet the man who spent 75 days in the hospital with COVID-19
In April 2020, 26-year-old Andrew Ackerman couldn't seem to kick a bad sinus infection. Providers at an urgent care told him he just needed...