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Things forgotten: simple lapse or serious problem?

Chances are you’ve walked into a room and forgotten why you went there. And misplaced your keys or eyeglasses at least a few times. Many...

Many people with heart failure have uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes

Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine found many people with heart failure also have diabetes or high blood pressure. But those conditions, even when treated, aren't...

Common causes of cardiac arrest you need to know

Ventricular fibrillation (v-fib) causes most cardiac arrests. V-fib is a type of arrhythmia. During v-fib, the ventricles (the heart's lower chambers) don't beat normally. Instead,...

Restricting sugary food may backfire, study finds

Do you try to lose weight by putting certain foods off-limits? Depriving yourself of the foods you love, new research in rats suggests, might drive...

People need to improve diet to prevent colon cancer, study shows

Scientists from Mayo Clinic suggest that early-onset colon cancer, defined as being diagnosed when younger than 50, continues to steadily increase in the U.S....

Harvard: ‘Alarming’ COVID subvariants and the power of hybrid immunity

Jacob Lemieux is an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School He said this week that recent COVID data...

Contracting Covid-19 might increase your risk of type 1 diabetes

People who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 may be at a higher risk of developing the autoimmune disease Type 1 diabetes, according to a...

This study shows the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University found a new mechanism by which clumps of tau protein are created in the brain, killing brain cells and...

This vitamin deficiency strongly raises your risk of COVID-19

Scientists from the University of Birmingham found that healthcare workers who self-isolated after developing symptoms of COVID-19 were more likely to have a vitamin...

Why is deadly brain cancer glioblastoma so difficult to treat?

Brain cancers, in general, present many challenges when it comes to treatment. The blood–brain barrier is the most significant factor working against us, because it...