MONDAY, Nov. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Lab-grown blood vessels are providing new insight into how damage to the tiny vessels in the brain can cause them to leak, contributing to dementia and stroke. Even better, this research has identified a drug target that could plug these leaks and potentiallyContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 13, 2023 (Healthday News) — In a finding that could change the landscape of heart disease care, the wildly popular weight-loss drug Wegovy has proved its mettle in protecting the heart after lowering the risk of cardiac problems in patients by 20%. The results from this large, internationalContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 13, 2023 (Healthday News) — Two new gene-editing treatments that target dangerously high levels of cholesterol in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition were found safe and effective in new, groundbreaking research. While powerful drugs like statins can help manage cholesterol in most people, they can’t treatContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Cutting out just one teaspoon of salt every day lowers blood pressure almost as much as medication does, new research shows. Investigators said theirs is one of the largest studies ever to include people taking high blood pressure meds in a look atContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Women and their doctors have long known that taking birth control pills can elevate the risk for a blood clot. Now, some good news: That added risk will disappear within a few weeks of stopping an oral contraceptive, a new study shows. “It’sContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Strokes can strike anyone, but income and education may play a role in whether your stroke is fatal or disabling, new research shows. As reported Nov. 8 in the journal Neurology, folks who’d had a stroke were 10% more likely to die orContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) — There’s your calendar age, and then there’s what scientists call your “biological” age, which is based on various measurements indicating good or not-so-good health. Now, new Swedish research finds that less healthy folks, with a biological age that outstrips their chronological age, mayContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — People who regularly smoke medical marijuana may be increasing their risk for a heart attack, heart failure or stroke, new research suggests. One study found that cannabis use among older patients increases the risk of heart attack or stroke by 20%. The secondContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Drones might prove a feasible way to deliver lifesaving defibrillators to cardiac arrests in remote areas, a new research simulation suggests. Delivering automated external defibrillators (AEDs) by drone could dramatically improve emergency response times in both urban and rural areas, according to findingsContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s a pacemaker that’s a bit like the Energizer bunny – it will keep ticking and ticking and ticking. An experimental pacemaker is able to partially recharge its own battery by using heartbeats to generate fresh electrical energy, researchers report. The device canContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Poor people are less likely to get clot-busting drugs after a stroke than their more affluent peers, Canadian researchers report. Their new study found that people in the poorest neighborhoods were 24% less likely to be treated than their counterparts in neighborhoods withContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Despite progress in recent decades, too many Americans still have dangerously high LDL cholesterol levels, and about a quarter don’t even know it, new research finds. That puts those people at risk for a longer span of artery clogging disease and increases theirContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A new, more comfortable wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) device could be on its way. Researchers from Australia and India have created a compact, lightweight, gel-free hexagonal-shaped ECG patch that they say is ideally suited for point-of-care diagnostics. For those at risk, having a wearableContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — In some big cities, mobile stroke units can deliver a powerful clot-busting drug to patients as these specialized ambulances speed to the hospital. Now, a new study shows these units deliver anti-clotting treatment a median of 37 minutes faster than when traditional ambulancesContinue Reading