Everyone knows that air pollution is bad for health, but how bad depends a lot on who you are. People of different races and ethnicities, education levels, locations and socioeconomic situations tend to be exposed to different ...
Jul 17, 2024
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Palliative care, specialized medical care focusing on providing relief from the symptoms—including pain—and the stress of serious illness, is underutilized in nursing homes, despite the large number of nursing home residents ...
Jul 16, 2024
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While this concept may have been the norm hundreds of years ago, many present-day societies are overfed and undernourished, leading to floods of health issues in many populations. Getting back to the basics might be a large ...
Jul 15, 2024
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The largest study of CTE to date has found a new link between playing contact sports, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and the development of a movement disorder known as parkinsonism.
Jul 15, 2024
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A new report finds research is sorely lacking on how chronic illnesses affect women, and it urges government agencies to do more to investigate how these diseases strike women differently.
Jul 12, 2024
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Last week, two big names in the artificial intelligence (AI) and wellness industries announced a collaboration to develop a "customized, hyper-personalized AI health coach that will be available as a mobile app" to "reverse ...
Jul 12, 2024
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Switching from a diet high in saturated animal fats to one rich in plant-based unsaturated fats affects the fat composition in the blood, which in turn influences long-term disease risk. A recent study published in Nature ...
Jul 11, 2024
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About 90% of people living with a condition that is one of the leading causes of death in the United States are unaware that they have it.
Jul 10, 2024
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Osteoarthritis—a condition in which the protective cartilage on the ends of bones breaks down—may more than double the risk of speedy progression to accumulating severe long term conditions (multimorbidity), finds a 20 ...
Jul 9, 2024
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If you're suffering through another sweltering day this July, the effects of extreme heat may seem painfully obvious. But the fallout from soaring temperatures goes far beyond sweatiness, dehydration or heat stroke.
Jul 9, 2024
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