Diet designed to lower blood pressure also can lower risk of kidney disease
In a study from Johns Hopkins, scientists found people who ate a diet high in nuts and legumes, low-fat dairy, whole grains, fruits, and...
Artificial sweeteners could affect your blood sugar, study finds
Since the late 1800s non-nutritive sweeteners have promised to deliver all the sweetness of sugar with none of the calories. They have long been...
What to know about heart disease symptoms
Symptoms of cardiovascular problems run the gamut.
Some – like chest pain during a heart attack or a droopy face during a stroke – are...
We studied how COVID affects mental health and brain disorders up to two years...
The occurrence of mental health conditions and neurological disorders among people recovering from COVID has been a concern since early in the pandemic.
Several studies...
More than 5.5 million US adults use hallucinogens, study finds
In a study from Columbia University, scientists found hallucinogen use has increased since 2015, overall and particularly among adults 26 and older, while use...
Three drugs fail as COVID-19 treatments
Scientists from the University of Minnesota found ivermectin and fluvoxamine cannot work as COVID-19 treatments.
They found the drugs cannot fight against COVID among overweight...
Early blood tests could predict death, severe disability in traumatic brain injury
Scientists from Michigan Medicine found that blood tests taken on the day of a traumatic brain injury can predict which patients are likely to...
Cooking, self-management education, and intervention benefit people with diabetes
Scientists from The Ohio State University found a cooking intervention that provided food—along with diabetes self-management education to encourage healthy eating and physical activity—would...
Dentists should give high-risk people antibiotics to prevent deadly heart infection
In a study from the University of Sheffield, scientists found people who are at high risk of developing a life-threatening heart infection should be...
Scientists find a pill that reduces heart disease, obesity, fatty liver
In a recent study from Johns Hopkins Medicine, scientists found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and sickle cell disease...