A new way to treat drug-resistant high blood pressure
Drug-resistant high blood pressure is a condition where your blood pressure remains high or uncontrolled despite the medications you take to lower it.
In a...
10,000 steps a day keeps doctor away, study confirms
You carry your own body weight when you walk. This is known as weight-bearing exercise.
Previous research has found that walking could increase heart and...
This hormone linked to less brain shrinkage in midlife women
Estrogen is a steroid hormone linked to the female reproductive organs and is responsible for developing female sexual characteristics.
In a study from Alzheimer's Research UK,...
Depression may signal a stroke years before it occurs
A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.
There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding.
Both cause...
What foods you eat together may affect your dementia risk
Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering, and reasoning — to such an extent that it interferes with a person's daily...
Scientists confirm long-term health impact of COVID-19
Many people recover fully within a few days or weeks after being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
But others have symptoms that...
Eat your way to a healthy brain
Research has found that the volume of the brain and/or its weight declines with age at a rate of around 5% per decade after...
Monkeypox virus can spread widely within specialist hospital isolation rooms
Monkeypox virus can be shed into the surrounding environment by people who are infected, particularly in shed skin particles and in debris from monkeypox...
Why obesity causes high blood pressure—and how to stop it
Obesity is a common, serious, and costly chronic disease in adults and children.
In 2017, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association...
The leading cause of vision loss in older people
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 3.4 million Americans aged 40 years and older are blind or visually impaired.
Other...