Tips of medication use in high blood pressure
When healthy lifestyle changes alone do not control or lower high blood pressure, your healthcare provider may prescribe blood pressure medicines.
These medicines act in...
The price of a pre-pandemic lifestyle
As COVID numbers fall and mandates lift, the question remains: Is it possible to avoid trade-offs between returning to pre-pandemic lifestyles and an uptick...
COVID-19 can infect heart’s pacemaker cells, study finds
Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and elsewhere found the SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect specialized pacemaker cells that maintain the heart’s rhythmic beat, setting off...
This HIV drug can stop colon cancer growth
Scientists from Harvard found a drug widely used in HIV therapy has shown to stop disease progression in 25 percent of patients with fourth-line...
Cancer treatment and diagnosis backlogs during COVID-19 may affect cancer survival
Unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, the cancer pandemic has raged on for centuries, though it similarly afflicts people in all corners of the world.
In 2020...
Smartwatch app could detect this heart problem accurately
Scientists from the Chinese PLA Medical School found atrial fibrillation (AFib) was confirmed in nearly 94% of people who were initially identified to have...
Scientists find way to treat diabetes without drugs
Scientists from Yale and elsewhere found the ability to use ultrasound to stimulate specific neurometabolic pathways in the body to prevent or reverse type...
Bone loss in aging: What you need to know
Bones feel solid, but the inside of a bone is actually filled with holes like a honeycomb. Bone tissues are broken down and rebuilt...
Vitamin D could help reduce migraine headache attacks
Scientists found vitamin D supplementation could reduce headache attacks per month and headache days per month among migraine patients.
The research is published in The...
Overweight people need weight loss before treating this heart problem
Scientists from Gentofte University Hospital found overweight patients with atrial fibrillation are more likely to experience a return of the heart rhythm disorder after...