WEDNESDAY, May 10, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Many Hispanic people in the United States face socioeconomic disadvantages and lower access to affordable health care. Despite these and other challenges to their health, they generally tend to live longer than other racial or ethnic communities – a health phenomenonContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 10, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — One hot day last June, Elmar Uy and his girlfriend, LJ Jennings, were gardening outside their home in Hudson, New Hampshire, when something strange happened. Everywhere Uy looked, he saw crescent-shaped spots. Jennings thought Uy might be dehydrated. She got himContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) — There are many medications for type 2 diabetes, but one class may stand out for protecting the heart, a new study suggests. The study, of thousands of U.S. veterans with diabetes, found that those who added drugs called GLP-1 receptor agonists to theirContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 9, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Kyme Holman-Williamson was always close to her older brother, Eddie. So when she learned he needed a heart transplant, she immediately prepared a room for him in her Maryland home, where she could care for him after his surgery. What sheContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 8, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Just as the term “Asian American” encompasses a vast number of people and cultures, the idea of an “Asian diet” oversimplifies differences in what they eat, a new report on heart health says. Understanding those differences is important for the UnitedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Researchers think they’ve figured out why the COVID vaccine causes heart inflammation in an extremely small number of teenage boys — and what might be done to avoid it. The second dose of COVID vaccine appears to promote a severe inflammatory response inContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 5, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Hours after Sarah Hernandez was born in La Verne, California, doctors diagnosed problems with her heart – problems they couldn’t fix. So they arranged for her to be flown to nearby Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The trouble involved two valves inContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — While a lot of research has focused on autism in children, much less effort goes toward studying adults with autism. Now, two new reports find this group is at substantial risk for age-related physical conditions and injuries, as well as being particularly susceptibleContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Preliminary mortality data for 2022 finds America making its way back from the devastation of the pandemic, with a significant 5.3% decline in deaths compared to 2021. And although COVID-19 remained the fourth leading cause of death in the United States last year,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, May 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s standard for heart attack survivors to take beta blocker medications for years afterward, but a new study suggests that may be unnecessary for people who’ve had a milder heart attack. Researchers found that among heart attack survivors whose hearts still had normalContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Self-care means many things to many people. To Dr. Beth Frates, director of lifestyle medicine and wellness in the department of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, it boils down to “caring for your body, mind and soul.” And toContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Could an electronic chest “tattoo” — wireless, lightweight and razor-thin — upend heart monitoring and lower the odds of heart disease for folks who are at high-risk? Just possibly. The clear patch in question is not quite 4 by 5 inches in size,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Physical activity after a stroke may be crucial to a more successful recovery, according to a study by Swedish researchers. They found that patients who increased and sustained their exercise in the six months after their stroke were functioning better than those whoContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — It’s a standard part of any medical visit. Someone, typically a nurse, wraps a cuff around your arm and asks you to sit quietly while the cuff squeezes to the point of discomfort, then slowly eases its grip. Some numbers getContinue Reading