MONDAY, April 9, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Staying physically fit can help ward off heart trouble, even if your genetics put you at higher risk for clogged arteries, a new, large study suggests. The researchers looked at nearly 500,000 middle-aged and older adults and found those with higher fitness levels were less likely to develop…
DetailsFRIDAY, April 6, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Americans appear to be aging slower than they used to, which may help explain recent gains in life expectancy, researchers say. The researchers compared how biological age changed in the United States compared to age in years (chronological age). For the study, the investigators looked at national health…
DetailsFRIDAY, April 6, 2018 (American Heart Association) — The sun’s radiation could be a factor in seasonal patterns of a deadly type of heart attack, according to new research that tracked a “summer shift” in their occurrence across seven countries. Previous research has examined how these attacks called ST-elevation myocardial infarctions, or STEMIs seem to…
DetailsTHURSDAY, April 5, 2018 (American Heart Association) — People who learn they have an unruptured brain aneurysm typically have two options: surgery or watch and wait. Researchers hope to add a third alternative — drugs to lower the odds of the aneurysm rupturing. Statins — drugs that reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke…
DetailsTHURSDAY, April 5, 2018 (HealthDay News) — If an overweight child slims down before puberty, the risk of type 2 diabetes seems to slide away with the lost pounds. Later weight loss also lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood, just not as much, new research reports. “The sooner we can get children…
DetailsTHURSDAY, April 5, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Self-administered magnetic pulses from a hand-held device may help head off debilitating migraines, researchers report. This new way to approach migraine headaches is called “single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation” (sTMS). Neurologists and psychiatrists have long used the technology to diagnose and treat patients. The U.S. Food and Drug…
DetailsTHURSDAY, April 5, 2018 (HealthDay News) — In search of a cosmetic surgery procedure that might be less costly than the going rate in the United States, a 43-year-old woman traveled to the Dominican Republic for a “tummy tuck.” What she got, instead, were massive open sores and an antibiotic-resistant infection that ultimately left her…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, April 4, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Children born to parents who are cousins have a significant risk for developing a mood disorder — such as depression or anxiety — when they grow up, a new study suggests. For adults whose parents are first-cousins, the risk is triple that of people whose parents are unrelated,…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, April 4, 2018 (American Heart Association) — Although past research has shown that thigh, hip and buttocks fat might actually protect against heart disease, a new study says losing fat in those areas is linked to better cardiovascular health. The study, published in the April 4 issue of the Journal of the American Heart…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, April 4, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Americans should expect that a super-resistant form of gonorrhea like that found in the United Kingdom will soon reach these shores, health experts say. Earlier this year, doctors diagnosed a man in England with a case of gonorrhea that could not be cured with antibiotics commonly deployed against…
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