Category: 6. Health

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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, affects nearly 40 million individuals globally, resulting in a gradual loss of memory and independence. Despite extensive research over the past decades, no treatments have…

Adults with heart disease who had a previous heart attack and took vitamin D doses tailored to reach optimal blood levels reduced their risk of another heart attack by more than half compared to those who did not have their…

People with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and obesity may have fewer episodes of AFib after ablation if they take the diabetes medication metformin in addition to standard care, according to a preliminary, late-breaking science…

An app that uses an AI model to read a single-lead ECG from a smartwatch can detect structural heart disease, researchers reported at the 2025 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association. 

Although the technology requires further…

An earlier blood transfusion- done when hemoglobin levels were higher – after major general or vascular surgery among people with heart disease was associated with a lower risk of some complications but not the most severe ones,…

Only around 1.1% of the world’s population is vegan, but this percentage is growing. For example, in Germany the number of vegans approximately doubled between 2016 and 2020 to 2% of the population, while a 2.4-fold increase between…

A University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson researcher will explore how maternal diet influences offspring food choices later in life thanks to a National Institutes of Health’s New Innovator award, a five-year, $1.5…

Cell inventory: A new study demonstrates the power of combining molecular biology methods to ascertain somatic mosaicism in people. The investigators used single-cell, whole-genome amplification in induced pluripotent stem cells in…