We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The British study compared infection in adults and youngsters across different organs. University College London found children more rapidly deploy […]

In the United States, federal regulators manage air pollution primarily due to its effects on human health and mortality. Current regulatory analyses assume that all people are affected equally by air pollution. A new study estimated the mortality impacts of air pollution using information specific to race and ethnicity. The study found that because older Black and Hispanic people are […]

Parents to kids of all ages know that the simplest tasks are often the most challenging of all, such as getting the entire family together to snap the perfect holiday photo. Reese Witherspoon just revealed to Drew Barrymore that her hilariously relatable holiday goal is truly just to get all her kids “together, in one photo, smiling,” as parents everywhere […]

High cholesterol: Nutritionist reveals top prevention tips We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info High cholesterol is often caused by eating fatty food or being overweight. It […]

It’s happened to most of us at one time or another. You’re lying in bed, dozing off, and suddenly your mind conjures an unexpected thought or image, as if from nowhere. Into your head pops an obscure cartoon character. Or the face of an old schoolmate you haven’t thought about for 20 years. Or perhaps you remember an argument you […]

Doctor says 'drastic measures' are needed to stop Omicron spread We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The Omicron variant is moving at a dizzying pace and […]

The relationship between alcohol and atrial fibrillation has long been referred to as the Holiday Heart Syndrome. An extensive study of the relationship between total alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease determined that this phenomenon is not associated with ventricular arrhythmias (VAs). It appears in Heart Rhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, and the […]

U.S. officials intensified calls Friday for unvaccinated Americans to get inoculated in the face of the new omicron variant that contributed to a record number of infections in New York and threatened to wipe out a second holiday season in Europe. Though the calendar is about to change, Friday had a distinctly 2020 feel: NFL games were postponed because of […]

(HealthDay)—Racial and ethnic inequities in treatment intensification may be associated with more than 20 percent of observed racial or ethnic disparities in blood pressure (BP) control, according to a study published online Dec. 8 in JAMA Cardiology. Valy Fontil, M.D., from University of California in San Francisco, and colleagues evaluated to what extent variation in health care processes (e.g., treatment […]

Will cutting my cholesterol cause dementia? DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health questions Last month I started taking statins because I have furred arteries. My cholesterol level is now 2.5, having fallen from between 4.1 and 4.3 since I started the statins. I’ve read that people with Alzheimer’s have very low cholesterol, and that people with the highest cholesterol live […]