Rest is so important, and when celebrities prioritize their physical and mental health over all else, it sends an inspirational message to parents everywhere. Mandy Moore made the heartbreaking decision to cancel the remaining stops on her 2022 In Real Life tour last month to focus on her pregnancy with husband Taylor Goldsmith. Yesterday, she shared more details about life […]

In a recent study published in PLOS, researchers determined whether the incidence of new diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) increases in a year among those recovering from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Study: Cardiometabolic outcomes up to 12 months after COVID-19 infection. A matched cohort study in the UK. Image Credit: Kateryna Novikova/Shutterstock Background Some early COVID-19-induced cardiac manifestations […]

Inspired by England’s brilliant performance at the Euros? Former Lioness and Arsenal legend Kelly Smith shares her top exercises for excelling on the pitch.  There can’t be many of us who’ve come away from watching one of England’s games in this Euros competition and not wondered about taking up football ourselves. Women like Beth Mead, Lucy Bronze and Ellen White […]

A team of researchers from the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health and the Resolve to Save Lives project, working with colleagues from the World Health Organization and Nanjing Medical University, is proposing an 80-80-80 target as a national hypertension policy after analyzing and modeling the results of population blood pressure controls. In their paper published in the journal […]

Written by Amy Beecham Exhausted? Overwhelmed? All of the above? Why are we so reluctant to talk about how tired we are? If someone were to ask you right now how you feel – how you really feel – what would you say? Fine? OK? As well as can be, considering it all? Or perhaps teetering on the edge, confused, […]

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that runs on a smartphone can help patients scheduled for a colonoscopy evaluate on their own how well they do with bowel cleansing, and may be an alternative approach for evaluating bowel preparation quality before the colonoscopy, especially in the COVID-19 era. The AI tool is a “manpower-saving” option that reduces the need for nurses […]

A recent study conducted by the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) discovered that myocardial fibrosis is associated with worse cardiovascular outcomes in patients with hypertension. Myocardial fibrosis is an important prognostic marker in the development of adverse cardiovascular events, such as heart failure and death. In Singapore, the prevalence of hypertension has shown an increase from 24.2% in 2017 to […]

Alyssa Hasty, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, specializes in immunometabolism, specifically on the role that the immune system plays in obesity and metabolic disease. Recent work from her lab explored the changes in immune cell populations in fat during obesity, weight loss, and weight cycling. The work, led by recent Ph.D. graduate Matthew Cottam and aided by […]

Studies have shown that physical and mental activity help preserve thinking skills and delay dementia. A new study suggests that these benefits may vary for men and women. The study is published in the July 20, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study looked at the effects of physical and mental […]

You might think it was a typical therapy session at a long-term care facility. In a quiet room, a therapist sets down a pet carrier, brings out a cat, and sets it on a resident’s lap. As the resident gently strokes the cat’s fur, it purrs, and the therapist asks the resident questions about their childhood pets, accessing long-ago memories. […]