(Sci Tech Daily) — A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world’s fastest-growing brain condition – Parkinson’s disease. For the past 100 years, trichloroethylene (TCE) has been used to decaffeinate coffee, degrease metal, and dry clean clothes. It contaminates the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, …
(Emily Henderson/ News Medical Net) — While new drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease tend to receive the most public attention, many well-researched ways to care for people with dementia don’t involve medication. A new evaluation compared the cost-effectiveness of four non-drug interventions to the usual …
(Sara Moniuszko/ Yahoo News) — Our understanding of the importance of gut health is growing, from knowing how to check in on our gut health to eating a healthy diet to support our gut microbiome. But what exactly should be included in that diet?
“The answer is very simple on a general level. … …
(Mira Miller/ Very Well Health) — Stress is an inevitable part of life, but it’s not always negative.
It’s challenging to pinpoint concrete causes of good or bad stress because one person’s trigger for good stress is another person’s trigger for bad stress, according to Russ Morfitt, PhD, a clinical psychologist and co-founder …
(Mathew Phelan/ Daly Mail) — It might sound counterintuitive, but scientists say one key to living beyond 100 is plenty of experience fighting off infections.
Researchers who studied the DNA of seven centenarians found they all shared one thing in common — they’d fought lots of bugs and viruses.
Their subjects had …
(Jiya Saini/ Revyuh) — Genetic elements may account for 50-75% of the differences in body mass index (BMI) within the population.
A group of researchers from Université Laval and the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute Research Centre examined the genomes of over 800,000 individuals of European ancestry, pinpointing 60 …
(Stephanie Mansour/ Today) — People assume that if they don’t have a lot of time, it’s not even worth trying to squeeze in a workout. But the truth is that completing a short workout daily can really make a difference for your health. Studies show that exercising for just 10 minutes can boost your physical …
(Shirli Sitbon/France 24) — Experts hailed full data Wednesday showing a new drug can slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients, but warned improvements were comparatively small and the treatment can have serious side effects.
Preliminary data from a trial of lecanemab was released in September and found …
(Meghan Holohan/ Today) — Many couples with infertility wonder why they struggle to become pregnant. A new study reveals one possible cause after it found that women with PFAS — also called “forever chemicals” — in their blood might experience difficulty becoming pregnant.
“What our data showed is that those who might …
(Elizabeth Gulino/ Refinery 29) — For as long as I can remember, 10,000 steps has been the gold standard of walking — at least, walking that’s tracked. It’s what we’re meant to aspire to achieve each and every day in order to attain an (alleged) optimal level of health. It’s become the default goal in the majority of our step …