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Lately, we have been hearing a lot in the media about the dangers of sugar consumption. Apparently sugar raises the risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes, not to mention having an addictive effect on the brain.
Therefore, in...
Rosiglitazone is a drug originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved it in 1999 under the name Avandia.
Although Europe suspended the drug due to concerns about its adverse effects on heart health, and the United States restricted its use, the research...
A new statement urges healthcare professionals to measure waist circumference in addition to body mass index in order to manage patients’ health and longevity and avoid obesity-related health risks.
The statement appears in the journal Nature Reviews Endocrinology. Robert Ross, who is a professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health...
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by tremor, slowness of movement, limb rigidity, and walking and balance issues.
In Parkinson’s, a misfolded protein named α-synuclein causes the degeneration and destruction of brain cells. The more α-synuclein builds up, the more neurons die.
Now, scientists from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ,...
Researchers at ETH Zurich and ETH spin-off Inositec have developed a new substance to prevent vascular calcification, which affects many patients suffering from chronic kidney disease. However, before patients can benefit from the substance further research and tests must be carried out.
As their metabolism is impaired, calcium salts may deposit...
According to data from 2015 — the latest available — about 3.5% of adults in the United States had made use of indoor tanning facilities in the past year.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) define indoor tanning as the practice of “using a tanning bed, booth, sunbed, or...
February is heart health awareness month, but a shocking number of American adults don’t know the signs of a heart attack. In Dec. 2019 study, 47 percent of respondents didn’t recognize some of the symptoms, and 6 percent were not familiar with any symptoms at all.
And with nearly half of...
Burnout is not just an inconvenience. It can lead to a critical, possibly deadly heart condition, a new study has found.
Researchers surveyed over 11,000 individuals for burnout, or “vital exhaustion,” and then tracked their development of the heart condition atrial fibrillation over the course of 25 years.
Those with the highest...
A British man living in China claims he beat the new coronavirus by downing glasses of “hot whiskey and honey.”
Connor Reed, 25, who teaches English in Wuhan, China — the epicenter of the outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and sickened over 20,000 others worldwide — told the...
What do female social workers, nurses, health aides, and retail cashiers all have in common? According to new research, they probably have poorer heart health than women working in other jobs.
In a study involving more than 65,000 postmenopausal women, researchers found that women working in the above jobs were more...
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