Common Anxiety and Sleep Drug May Quietly Affect Brain Health
Benzodiazepines are a group of medicines commonly used to treat anxiety and sleep problems.
Drugs in this family include diazepam, better known by the brand...
6 Warning Signs Your Heart is Struggling
Your heart is a powerful muscle that works around the clock. It pumps oxygen-rich blood through your body so your brain, kidneys, muscles and...
How Heart Scars Trigger Dangerous Heart Rhythm Disease
When someone has a heart attack, part of the heart muscle loses its blood supply and becomes damaged.
The body repairs this injury by replacing...
Cannabis-Based Medicine Shows Promise for PTSD Nightmares
Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, can develop after people experience terrifying events such as war, assault, natural disasters or serious accidents.
Many people with PTSD...
Could Sleeping Too Long Signal Alzheimer’s Risk?
Sleep plays an important role in memory, learning, and overall health, but researchers are still trying to understand exactly how it affects the aging...
Global Dementia Study Reveals No Single Formula for Protecting the Brain
As populations grow older, dementia has become one of the greatest health challenges facing the world. Families often spend years caring for loved ones...
What’s in a vape? Why e-cigarettes are hardly harmless
Compared with traditional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes can seem simple and harmless.
After all, they trade the eye-stinging smoke of burning tobacco leaves for something that...
Just 10 Days After Giving Birth, She Had Heart Attack
A week and a half after giving birth to her second daughter, Amy Mazur-Hession began feeling back pain. At first, she attributed the pain...
His Heart Stopped During A Workout At Age 39. Then It Happened Again 2...
With 10 minutes left in his regular 6 a.m. fitness class, Kyle Hartley paused his rowing workout to grab a drink of water.
He took...
Weight-Loss Diabetes Drugs Linked to 21% Lower Risk of Bone Fractures
Medicines such as GLP-1 receptor agonists can help people with type 2 diabetes lose substantial amounts of weight, but doctors have questioned what that...