(Maria Cohut/ Medical News Today) — Lack of sleep is just as dangerous as excessive drinking when it comes to activities such as driving. The breathalyzer can reliably measure a person’s state of intoxication, but there’s currently no way of assessing someone’s tiredness. New research may soon change …
(Amy Norton/ HealthDay) — It’s well-known that regular exercise can help cut your risk for a stroke. Now, new research shows fitness may have an added bonus, cutting the severity of a stroke should one occur.
So finds a study of more than 900 stroke survivors. It found that fitter people were twice as likely as sedentary folk to have …
(Thomson Reuters) — More than three million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
More than three-quarters of these deaths were among men, the UN health agency said. And despite evidence of the …
(Sara Chodosh/ Popular Science) — Health halos are powerful. They convince us that granola laden with maple syrup is healthy and that anything gluten-free must be better for us than the gluten-full version.
It’s fairly easy to cut through these halos by looking at the nutrition label—but let’s be honest, most of us don’t. Yogurt …
(Thomson Reuters) — People who cut back on carbohydrates may end up increasing their risk of premature death if they load their plates with meat and cheese instead of vegetables and nuts, a U.S. study suggests.
While previous research has linked low-carbohydrate diets to better success with short-term weight loss and improvements …
(Catharine Paddock PhD/ Medical News Today) — Schizophrenia is a complex mental condition that is still not fully understood in terms of how brain circuitry links up to behavioral symptoms. Now, however, scientists seem to have found a way to make some of the symptoms disappear.
Recent studies have suggested that some …
(Lucy Bode/ Women’s Health) — We’ve long considered probiotics a miracle cure for a whole range of health probs: bad bloating? Kaching! Sucky skin? Kaching! Anxiety playing up? Kaching, kaching! But when it comes to one ailment in particular, you’d be better off saving your pennies (if new research out of Israel’s Weizmann …
(Denise Grady/ New York Times) — Should older people in good health start taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks, strokes, dementia and cancer?
No, according to a study of more than 19,000 people, including whites 70 and older, and blacks and Hispanics 65 and older. They took low-dose aspirin — 100 milligrams — or a placebo every …
(Associated Press) — U.S. health officials are sounding the alarm about rising teenage use of e-cigarettes, calling the problem an “epidemic” and ordering manufacturers to reverse the trend or risk having their flavoured vaping products pulled from the market.
The warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration …
(Simon Veazey/ Epoch Times) — A 63-year-old woman from Detroit says a selfie saved her life.
Juanita Branch, 63, said she had decided to update her Facebook page with some selfies on the morning of Aug. 13.
But when she looked back over the series of images, she told Fox, each image seemed to get progressively worse.
Checking the bathroom …