While engaged in a physical task requiring effort, such as driving a car or carrying grocery bags, older adults are more likely than younger adults to be distracted by items irrelevant to the task at hand, reports a study ...
May 10, 2023
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Dopamine, a brain chemical long associated with pleasure, motivation and reward-seeking, also appears to play an important role in why exercise and other physical efforts feel "easy" to some people and exhausting to others, ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Three quarters of Australians are living with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), an infection which causes cold sores. These tiny fluid-filled lesions and blisters sit along the mouth and nose area.
Feb 21, 2023
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Alternating hemiplegia of childhood is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder associated with a mutation in the ATP1A3 gene. It begins in infancy, causing symptoms that significantly impair quality of life. Young patients are ...
Feb 20, 2023
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Women with continence issues are reluctant to continue many sports and gym programs, but new research has found a way to help women undertake resistance training that will help reduce the risk of stress urinary incontinence.
Feb 10, 2023
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The Pulmonary Embolism Dyspnea Italian Study (PEDIS), just published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, has demonstrated for the first time that the recent onset of severe respiratory fatigue due to minor efforts, ...
Jan 24, 2023
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Obesity has been a major global health issue in recent decades as more people eat unhealthy diets and fail to exercise regularly.
Oct 13, 2022
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Women with long COVID experience heart rate irregularities in response to physical exertion, and this has the potential to constrain not only exercise tolerance but free-living physical activity.
Nov 12, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Patients suffering from "long COVID" can have symptoms that last a year or more, putting their jobs and everyday routines in jeopardy, a new study finds.
Oct 27, 2021
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Among patients who return to work after a heart attack, those who work more than 55 hours per week, compared to those working an average full-time job of 35-40 hours a week, increase their odds of having a second heart attack ...
Mar 29, 2021
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