Cardiology

Understanding your heart test: What to expect, how to prepare

Heart health is an essential part of your overall health and well-being. Your primary care provider will monitor your blood pressure and lab work during an annual physical exam or more frequently. If you have symptoms that ...

Health

More than one billion now afflicted by obesity: Lancet

More than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number having more than quadrupled since 1990, according to a study released by The Lancet medical journal.

Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Are ChatGPT exercise recommendations just what the doctor ordered?

Since its debut in late 2022, people have experimented with using the AI (artificial intelligence) chat bot ChatGPT for everything from recipe planning to answering trivia to helping with homework. But ChatGPT has been mired ...

Overweight & Obesity

Obesity disrupts normal liver function in mice, study finds

Your liver plays a vital role in your metabolism, the biological process that converts food into energy. We know that being overweight can negatively affect metabolic activity, but not exactly how. To better understand this, ...

Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Heat stress may affect the muscles for longer than we think

People who experience heat stress during exercise may need more recovery time to let their muscles heal, according to a new mouse study published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative ...

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