Diabetes is a known risk factor for many other health conditions and events, particularly heart
disease, stroke, kidney disease, and vision loss. Perhaps more surprisingly, research has also
found that people with diabetes are more likely to experience anxiety when compared with
healthy individuals.
For example, one study published in 2008 found that anxiety...
Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization
(WHO) have deemed antibiotic resistance a global public health concern."
Now, researchers from McGill University in Quebec, in collaboration with the Institut national
de la recherche scientifique" (INRS) in Montreal — both in Canada — have decided to explore
the...
An antibiotic widely used to treat acne holds the promise of preventing the hardening of arteries,
according to a new study.
Stiff, or hard, arteries impede the flow of nourishing the blood to tissues and organs. This can raise
the risk of cardiovascular conditions, such as high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke....
There are two major stumbling blocks to developing effective drugs for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's,
and other diseases that destroy the brain. The first is overcoming the blood-brain barrier, and the
second is delivering the drug to a precise location and ensuring that it does not spread to the rest
of the brain.
Now, a new...
A new treatment from Arizona maintains that it has seen great success in treating the effects of autism, at least on a gut level.
Based on research indicating that people with autism are severely lacking in certain strains of gut bacteria, a phenomenon leading to the presence of gastrointestinal issues in...
First, the study in question:
A large Swedish population study has found strong links between psychiatric conditions that can
follow extremely stressful experiences and the risk of several types of cardiovascular disease.
The link between acute stress and cardiovascular symptoms may be bidirectional, suggests new
research.
In addition, the researchers found that the risk of...
MCI is a condition in which a person can experience symptoms that are similar to those of early
dementia. For instance, they may have some memory loss, find it difficult to carry out familiar
tasks, be unable to recognize places and people, and struggle to make decisions.
Although MCI often precedes dementia, not...
If changing our eating patterns could have even a small effect, it is worth understanding. Sticking
to a restrictive, calorie-controlled diet is challenging, but eating at a different time of the day
might be easier to achieve.
The question is, does eating later in the day really make a difference? A recent experiment...
People who expect good things to happen in the future are more likely than less-optimistic peers to survive the decades following a first heart attack, a study in Israel suggests.
The results don’t prove that optimism extends life, but doctors should nevertheless consider including optimism training in patients’ rehabilitation after heart...
Scientists have developed a simple way of altering antibiotics that could make them much more
powerful against infections caused by drug-resistant microbes. The method made the antibiotic
vancomycin much more powerful against two strains of bacteria that had become drug-resistant.
The researchers suggest that the simple chemistry involved in modifying the drug can...
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