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Stay-at-home orders strongly reduced COVID-19 infections and deaths, shows study

New study on the impact of COVID-19 suggests that, in the complete absence of stay-at-home orders, the United States could have seen 220 percent...

Scientists find why exercise could help slow down cancer growth

People with cancer who exercise generally have a better prognosis than inactive patients. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found a likely explanation...

Weight loss surgery may help prevent second heart attack, death

People with severe obesity (BMI >35) and a prior heart attack who undergo weight-reduction surgery may lower their risk of a second heart attack,...

This type of work can increase dementia risk by over 50%

The muscles and joints are not the only parts of the body to be worn down by physical work. The brain and heart suffer...

This weight loss diet could prevent, reverse heart failure, shows study

Research from Saint Louis University finds that high fat or "ketogenic" diets could completely prevent, or even reverse heart failure caused by a metabolic...

This sign may mean higher death risk in COVID-19 patients

When a patient is hospitalized with COVID-19, signs of damage to the right side of the heart may indicate a greater risk of death,...

Scientists find a new cause of Alzheimer’s disease

In a new study, researchers have discovered a new mechanism by which clumps of tau protein are created in the brain, killing brain cells...

Vitamin C plus this diet may help fight hard-to-treat cancers

In a recent study from USC and the IFOM Cancer Institute in Milan, researchers found that a fasting-mimicking diet could be more effective at...

This hormone may protect women from severe COVID-19

Why are men at greater risk than women for more severe symptoms and worse outcomes from COVID-19 regardless of age? In a recent review study...

Covid-19 interventions can cut virus infections, severe outcomes

Interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines and other distancing strategies to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection...