Scientists find new way to reduce heart failure after a heart attack
While there are therapies to aid in overall heart health, there are very few preventative therapies for heart failure after a significant heart attack,...
This vitamin deficiency could strongly increase risk of COVID-19, study confirms
In a new study, researchers found that healthcare workers who self-isolated after developing symptoms of COVID-19 were more likely to have a vitamin D...
Exercising in this way could benefit people with type 2 diabetes
In a new study, researchers found that frequent exercise breaks during prolonged sitting may be better for blood vessel health in people with type...
This new drug may help treat Lewy body dementia
In a new study, researchers found that people with mild-to-moderate Lewy body dementia (LBD) had a big improvement in cognition when they took the...
How smoking worsens COVID-19 infection
In a new study, researchers found how smoking cigarettes causes more severe infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the airways of...
High blood pressure in midlife is linked to more brain damage in later life
In a new study, researchers found that higher than normal blood pressure is linked to more extensive brain damage in the elderly.
In particular, they...
These bone disease treatments may reduce COVID-19 risk
In a new study, researchers found that some of the treatments for osteoporosis—denosumab, zoledronate, and calcium—could have a protective effect against COVID-19.
In patients who...
Three common drugs could lower lung cancer death risk
In a recent study at Sungkyunkwan University, researchers found that the combined use of aspirin, statins, and metformin is linked to lower lung cancer...
Sleep is the ‘crystal ball’ to predict Alzheimer’s disease, study shows
In a recent study at the University of California, Berkeley and elsewhere, researchers found that getting plenty of deep, restorative sleep may offer a...
For many people, physical and mental ills can linger months after COVID recovery
In a new study, researchers found that patients who survive severe COVID-19 after being hospitalized are not necessarily home-free upon discharge
They tracked outcomes among...