US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers in Atlanta have examined the association between depressive symptoms and mortality in a large, diverse, nationally representative sample of US adults.
It was a good year for medical research as a team at the German center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Magdeburg, found that dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain. Any exercise helps, the team found, but dancing ...
A trio of neurologists at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found through a study of the data in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) that the prevalence of stroke ...
An unhealthy diet is one of the leading risk factors for poor health, accounting for up to 45 percent of all deaths from cardiometabolic diseases (CMD), such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. But the national ...
Dec 17, 2019
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With countless medical advances and efforts to curb smoking, one might expect that life expectancy in the United States would improve. Yet according to recent studies, there's been a reduction in the rate of improvement in ...
Jan 15, 2018
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Eating at least three servings of whole grains every day could lower your risk of death, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.
Jun 13, 2016
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Women whose bodies have high levels of chemicals found in plastics, personal-care products, common household items and the environment experience menopause two to four years earlier than women with lower levels of these chemicals, ...
Jan 28, 2015
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Having a slow reaction time in midlife increases risk of having died 15 years later, according to new research published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Jan 29, 2014
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Food allergies are on the rise, affecting 15 million Americans. And according to a new study published in the December issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, ...
Dec 3, 2012
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Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have revealed a significant association between obesity and children and adolescents with higher concentrations of urinary bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic chemical recently banned by the ...
Sep 18, 2012
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