Scientists find a new way to predict dementia before symptoms appear
Scientists from Boston University and elsewhere found a blood biomarker that could help identify people with the earliest signs of dementia, even before the...
Stanford scientists develop vaccine to prevent pancreatic cancer
Scientists from Stanford University develop a new vaccine to prevent pancreatic cancer.
The research is published in Stem Cell Reports and was conducted by Joseph...
Understanding the link between COVID-19 and diabetes
Amid the many problems posed by the pandemic, one positive outcome is that COVID-19 is providing valuable insights that could help researchers unlock the...
Common causes of heart attack you need to know
The most common cause of a heart attack is coronary artery disease, which is the most common type of heart disease.
This is when your...
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...