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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...
Exercise
How Many Push Ups should you be able to do? Amount sorted by age
Have you ever heard that completing 40 push-ups a day can significantly lower the risk of cardiovascular disease? Push-ups are an effective and simple way to measure upper body...
Tips for a Long Life
Diet with regular exercise may cut your death risk after 65
A new study of 6,468 older adults links the combination to a 27 percent lower mortality risk.
Exercise
You don’t need to walk 10,000 steps to benefit from your walk
New research shows that several factors may play a role in determining how walking benefits your health.
Mind
Reading for an hour may cut your Alzheimer’s risk by a third
An hour with a novel or comic may quietly protect your brain for decades.
Diseases
Outbreak is now the worst in US history – over 18,000 infected
A summer of contaminated iceberg lettuce drove US cyclospora cases to an all-time high.
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Vitamins and Supplements
New study: Dietary supplement may help maintain weight loss
Many people find that they regain weight after dieting. Now, a new study points to something that may make it easier to maintain weight loss.
Nutrition
Dietitian recommends: These carbs can help with weight loss
Carbohydrates do not need to be eliminated from the diet if the goal is to reduce body fat.According...
Diseases
A single blood test could catch 50 cancers before symptoms show
The test screens for cancers that have no routine screening today.
Diseases
Your waist measurement may reveal how vulnerable you are to everyday air pollution
A new trial suggests belly fat, not BMI, decides who suffers most from air pollution.
Nutrition
How your weekly egg habit may quietly shape your Alzheimer’s risk after 65
One large US study followed 39,498 adults aged 65 and older, and egg lovers came out ahead.
Diseases
Whether you are the oldest or youngest sibling may shape which diseases you develop
A dataset of 10 million US siblings ties birth order to 150 different diagnoses.
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These celebrities kept their cancer diagnoses out of the public eye
Some celebrities choose to speak openly about cancer, while...
A new blood test for colorectal cancer just got FDA approval – who should get it?
Adults 45 and older at average risk can now get screened for colorectal cancer with a simple blood test.
Are calcium supplements safe for your heart? Here’s what the evidence says
A new study links calcium supplements to higher cardiovascular event recurrence in people with existing heart disease.
NIH finds rare antibodies that could block the red meat allergy triggered by tick bites
NIH scientists have found antibodies that blocked the immune response behind the red meat allergy in the lab.
Latest Articles
Is your BMI accurate? Body fat scans get it wrong for more than 1 in 3 adults
When researchers compared BMI with gold-standard body fat scans, one in three "obese" adults were not.
Just 22 hours of one specific brain training may cut your dementia risk by a quarter
A 20-year trial found that speed-of-processing brain training with booster sessions lowered dementia diagnoses by 25 percent.
Cooling your pasta or rice overnight may lower its blood sugar impact
Chilling cooked starches builds up a fiber-like compound that eases the post-meal glucose surge.
How many arm curls can you do in 30 seconds? The norms for your age
A validated home test shows where your upper-body strength sits after 60.
Alfalfa sprouts linked to E. coli and salmonella in 15 states – what to do if you have them
Federal health officials say two people caught both bugs at once.
A vitamin D-like drug may have found a way past pancreatic cancer’s main defenses
An FDA-approved kidney drug helped chemotherapy reach pancreatic tumors in a small randomized trial.
What your mouth and gums can quietly reveal about your heart and blood sugar
A landmark medical review noted that the mouth often shows the first, and sometimes only, warning that something is wrong elsewhere in the body.
5 warning signs of melanoma on your skin – and when to see a doctor
Caught early, melanoma is highly treatable. Here is what to look for.
How much turmeric is too much? What high-dose curcumin can do to your liver
Federal drug-safety scientists now rank turmeric among the top causes of herbal liver injury nationwide.