How to lower your cancer risk
Most people know someone who’s had cancer: a family member, a friend, a loved one. Who gets it can sometimes seem random.
But there are...
COVID-19 vaccine technique may help treat heart disease
Scientists from the University Medical Center Utrecht found that a method for delivering genetic material to the body is being tested as a way...
This stuff in your blood associated with severe COVID-19
Scientists from the University of Michigan found a connection between destructive white blood cells and a more severe disease course in patients with COVID-19.
The...
These 3 things in midlife may increase your risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco found certain lifestyle factors can sway the risk of dementia.
They found the top threats to middle-aged...
Your genes and blood type may help predict your risk of severe COVID-19
Scientists from the Severe COVID-19 GWAS Group found that a person’s genes and blood type may help determine their odds for a nastier form...
How to control your heart health numbers
It is important to keep track of how much you exercise, your blood pressure, your weight, and your cholesterol numbers as ways to meet...
Heavy antibiotic use linked to this dangerous gut disease
Scientists from NYU Grossman School of Medicine found that the more antibiotics that seniors take, the greater their risk of inflammatory bowel disease.
The results...
Common high blood pressure drug may prevent COVID-19 complications
Scientists from Johns Hopkins found a drug treatment that may reduce the risk of death from the most serious complication of COVID-19.
They found prazosin,...
Eating sea squirts may help reverse major signs of aging
Scientists from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and elsewhere found that eating a diet containing the sea organisms Ascidiacea, also known as sea squirts, reverses some...
COVID-19 treatment remdesivir: What you need to know
What is it? The antiviral treatment remdesivir, sold under the brand name Veklury, was the first COVID-19 therapy to get full FDA approval, and, so...