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Scientists find new way to detect your risk of chronic kidney disease

Scientists from Columbia University found a new algorithm that can analyze thousands of variants across the genome and estimate a person's risk of developing...

Better childhood fitness may protect you from dementia later in life

Scientists from the National Center for Healthy Aging found that better performance on physical tests is related to better cognition later in life and...

Vitamin B can help reduce drug-resistant high blood pressure

Scientists from the University of Maine and elsewhere found using B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels is an effective means of reducing blood pressure. Vitamin...

This gland problem in your neck is linked to bone fracture, stroke and heart...

Scientists from the University of Gothenburg found in the hormonal disorder primary hyperparathyroidism, patients' risk of hip fracture is elevated by 51%, and that...

Scientists find the cause of ‘brain fog’ in long COVID

Scientists from La Trobe University found that the cause of 'brain fog' in long COVID. They found similarities between the effects of COVID-19 and the...

Omicron variant causes less ‘long COVID’ risk than delta

Scientists from King's College London found that the omicron variant is less likely to cause long COVID than the delta variant. The findings are from...

Eating meat may increase your risk of this dangerous autoimmune disease

Scientists from UConn Health and Washington University found eating more meat, having less of certain bacteria in the gut, and more of certain immune...

Diabetes and heart disease could increase your dementia risk

Scientists from Karolinska Institutet found that people with at least two of the following conditions—type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke—have double the risk...

A blood sugar meter could soon tell if you have COVID-19 antibodies

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University found a simple, accurate blood-sugar-meter-based test incorporating a novel fusion protein. They say that people could someday use this assay...

Longer sitting time linked to higher heart disease risk, new study finds

Scientists from Simon Fraser University and elsewhere found that people who sat for six to eight hours a day had a 12–13 percent increased...