Talk therapy could improve mental health in people with dementia
People with dementia may have mood changes, becoming irritable, tearful, anxious, depressed, or agitated.
In a study from University College London, scientists found people living...
No one should cancel their colonoscopies, study says
Despite some confusing messages this week around the value of colonoscopies, Wilmot Cancer Institute physicians and clinicians across the U.S. say the procedure remains...
Your kidney health begins before birth, scientists find
The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs. Each kidney is about the size of a fist. Your kidneys filter extra water and wastes out of...
Both blood pressure numbers could predict your heart attack, stroke
Blood pressure is made up of two numbers: systolic and diastolic.
Systolic blood pressure is the pressure when the ventricles pump blood out of the...
Alzheimer’s disease: surprising new theory about what might cause it
In 1906, Alois Alzheimer, a psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, reported “a peculiar severe disease process of the cerebral cortex” to a gathering of psychiatrists in...
Does the Mediterranean diet really reduce 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...
Aspirin helps prevent blood clots and death after fracture surgery
Patients who have surgery to repair bone fractures typically receive a type of injectable blood thinner, low-molecular-weight heparin, to prevent life-threatening blood clots.
Clots are tangles...
Smoking, diabetes and obesity – not pre-existing heart disease – bigger risk of COVID-19...
In a study from Michigan Medicine, scientists found that risk factors for heart disease, such as age, smoking and diabetes – not pre-existing heart...
Research finds root causes of heart rhythm diseases
According to the National Institute of Health, when abnormal electrical activity causes the heart to beat too quickly, too slowly, or erratically, the condition...
Heart inflammation 7 times more likely with COVID-19 than vaccines
Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle.
Myocarditis has rarely been reported. When reported, the cases have especially been in adolescents and young adult males within several days after mRNA COVID-19...