Electroshock therapy more effective for treating depression than ketamine
Depression is a common illness affecting about 5% of adults worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Feeling sad, irritable, losing pleasure in activities...
Widely used high blood pressure drugs may lead to a gut disease
High blood pressure increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, two leading causes of death for Americans.
High blood pressure is also very common....
Two drugs can reverse a key step in pancreatic cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, more than 60,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, and only about 1 in 10 of those...
Scientists find two drugs most effective in lowering blood sugar in diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic (long-lasting) health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy.
With type 2 diabetes, your body doesn’t use insulin well and...
Novel PET imaging tech can detect earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease
Memory problems are often one of the first signs of cognitive impairment related to Alzheimer's disease.
The decline in non-memory aspects of cognition, such as word-finding,...
High-calorie diet may help Parkinson’s patients live longer
Parkinson's disease is a chronic and progressive neurological disease that is marked by tremors in the resting muscles, rigidity, slowness of movement, impaired balance,...
Common chemical in cheese, coffee, meat may hurt your blood pressure
Half of all Americans have high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, and many don’t even know they have it.
High blood pressure develops when...
A little weight gain may increase risk of knee pain
Osteoarthritis occurs when the cartilage that cushions the joints wears away over time, allowing the ends of bones to rub against each other, causing pain,...
A new heart brings new hope
When Sethan Wilder heard the heart he had been waiting for was available, the range of emotions he’d been feeling in the months prior...
High blood pressure can cause common heart rate disease
A heart arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat.
Heart rhythm problems (heart arrhythmias) occur when the electrical signals that coordinate the heart's beats don't work properly.
The...