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Dietary Habits
Top 10 foods rich in lithium – and why this overlooked mineral matters for your brain
Lithium is best known as a psychiatric treatment, but in tiny amounts it’s naturally present in what we eat and drink. New research suggests this trace element could support...
Nutrition
How eating spinach every day may affect your blood pressure and muscle strength
The green on your plate carries a quiet chemistry your blood vessels seem to notice within hours.
Diseases
Long COVID could be raising your blood pressure, study finds
The pattern turned up even in people whose first COVID infection felt fairly mild, and it hit some groups harder than others.
Nutrition
Research reveals what happens when you eat too much protein
The gym-floor rule you have heard since your first workout turns out to crumble when the lab actually tests it.
Nutrition
This is what happens to your body if you drink chai tea every day
Chai is a popular drink that combines black tea with spices such as ginger, cinnamon and cardamom.But what actually happens to your body if you drink chai every day?...
Nutrition
How eating chia seeds every day may affect your heart and cholesterol
The humble spoonful on your yogurt or oatmeal is quietly doing more in some places than in others.
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Diseases
Beer, wine or spirits? one drink was linked to a surprising health benefit
The type of drink you choose may matter more than how much you pour, a 13-year study of 340,000 adults suggests.
Diseases
One extra year in school could change your dementia risk
The twist is who seems to have gained the most, and it is not the group most people would expect.
Mental Well-being
Scientists find that one extra daily serving of fruit is linked to a 13% lower depression risk
Researchers tracked thousands of high schoolers through adolescence and spotted the same small daily difference showing up for two mood problems.
Diseases
Your Alzheimer’s blood test could be wrong: Here’s what scientists found
Current blood tests can light up for the wrong reasons, and researchers say one extra step may finally close that gap.
Vitamins and Supplements
These common vegetables contain surprisingly high amounts of potassium
Bananas are known for their high potassium content, but...
Diseases
Taking blood pressure pills? This common mistake could cost you the benefits
The pills do their job, but a very ordinary habit slowly chips away at the protection they offer.
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Your tap water may contain twice as many forever chemicals as reported
A fresh look at nearly two million water samples suggests the numbers on your utility report may not tell the whole story.
What the color of your stool can reveal about your liver and gut health
The color your body produces every day carries quiet clues about your liver, gallbladder and gut, but only some shifts are urgent.
How eating spinach every day may affect your blood pressure and muscle strength
The green on your plate carries a quiet chemistry your blood vessels seem to notice within hours.
Breast cancer changes lives forever: Here is the expert’s most important advice
Despite widespread awareness of breast cancer, many patients continue...
Latest Articles
Air pollution may be quietly raising your blood sugar even if you don’t have diabetes
A large European study tracked more than 21,000 adults and traced a surprise influence on blood sugar that no diet or workout can cancel out.
Two drugs you may have in your medicine cabinet just entered an Alzheimer’s trial
Researchers want to shortcut a search that has moved painfully slowly for years, and they are starting with two surprisingly familiar medicines.
7 warning signs your vitamin D may be dropping as the days get shorter
The body makes most of its supply from the sun, and once October ends the pipeline largely shuts down across much of the country.
Walk fewer than 5,000 steps a day? Your risk of dementia and stroke may nearly double
A year of fitness-tracker data from thousands of US adults suggests the number on your watch may matter more for your brain than you think.
Explained: Ebola
An Ebola outbreak has become the second-largest ever recorded, with thousands of deaths and infections spreading beyond the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The virus responsible has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment, raising urgent questions about who is at risk, how the disease spreads and why survival depends so heavily on early medical care.
Explained: Mosquito-borne disease that turns deadly as fever disappears
Dengue fever has infected millions of people worldwide, and cases are now being acquired locally in parts of Europe. Although most patients recover, the disease has a dangerous characteristic: serious complications can develop just when the fever begins to disappear.
Daily vitamin C cut deaths nearly in half in a randomized blood cancer trial
Researchers tested a cheap, everyday vitamin in people with a quiet blood disorder, and the survival numbers caught them off guard.
Half a million heart deaths a year come down to one number most people never check
Researchers put a figure on what the world's leading preventable cardiovascular risk is quietly costing, and the fix is already on most pharmacy shelves.
FDA clears a drug that lets some rectal cancer patients skip surgery entirely
The approval only covers a narrow group of rectal cancer patients, but for them it may rewrite what treatment looks like.