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Bilirubin can prevent damage from cardiovascular disease

Each year, about 610,000 Americans suffer their first heart attack, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heart attacks and other symptoms of cardiovascular disease can be caused when ...

Cardiology created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Healthy diet may help prevent recurrent heart attacks, strokes

If you have cardiovascular disease, a heart-healthy diet may help protect you from recurrent heart attacks and strokes, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

Cardiology created Dec 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Obesity complicates lung cancer surgery, study finds

(HealthDay)—Lung cancer surgery takes longer and is more costly if a patient is obese, a new study shows.

Cancer created Nov 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Baycrest launches world's first science-based cookbook for the brain

With dementia rates expected to soar in coming decades as Canada's population gets older, a nutrition and cognitive scientist with the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences has cooked up a strategy to help ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Diabetes patients should have more voice in treatment: experts

(HealthDay)—New guidelines meant to provide type 2 diabetes patients with truly individualized care have been issued by the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.

Diabetes created Oct 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Revealing the 'silent epidemic' of coal's health hazards

(Phys.org)—Coal kills. That's the message of "The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health" by Alan H. Lockwood, MD, University at Buffalo emeritus professor of neurology.

Health created Sep 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Research: Link between healthy outlook and healthy lifestyle

(Medical Xpress)—A 'can do' attitude is the key to a healthy lifestyle, University of Melbourne economists have determined.

Health created Sep 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Late motherhood—a matter of choice?

(Medical Xpress)—When women give birth in their late thirties or in their forties, it is not necessarily the result of a lifestyle choice – putting off motherhood for career reasons or from a desire to "have it all".  ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Concussions and head impacts may accelerate brain aging

Concussions and even lesser head impacts may speed up the brain's natural aging process by causing signaling pathways in the brain to break down more quickly than they would in someone who has never suffered ...

Neuroscience created Jul 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unhealthy lifestyles have little impact on sperm quality: study

Lifestyle advice given by doctors to men diagnosed with infertility should be radically overhauled according to research published today (Wednesday).

Medical research created Jun 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Healthy lifestyle choices could cut cancer rates: report

(HealthDay) -- Most people know what lifestyle choices will keep the chances of a cancer diagnosis low: Don't smoke, eat healthy, exercise and get the recommended screenings.

Cancer created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Public health researchers: More than half of all cancer is preventable

More than half of all cancer is preventable, and society has the knowledge to act on this information today, according to Washington University public health researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis.

Cancer created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Many americans ambivalent over laws aimed at healthy living

(HealthDay) -- With a recent flood of new regulations or proposals aimed at governing lifestyle choices such as smoking, eating or cellphone use, is the United States in danger of becoming a "nanny state"?

Health created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Can lifestyle changes prevent Alzheimer's disease?

Bronwen Zilmer has three generations of Alzheimer's disease in her family. She hopes not to be the fourth.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A healthy teenager is a happy teenager

Teenagers who turn their backs on a healthy lifestyle and turn to drink, cigarettes and junk food are significantly unhappier than their healthier peers. New research also shows that 12-13 is a catalyst age when young people ...

Health created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0