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10 May
Women With Heart Attack Symptoms Treated Less Urgently Than Men, Study Finds
Women rushed to the ER with chest pain wait longer for treatment and receive fewer basic heart tests, researchers say.
07 May
Eating A Mediterranean Diet Helps Prevent The Loss Of Brain Function, Study Finds
Following a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish and olive oil may protect your brain against protein build-up and shrinkage related to Alzheimer's disease, researchers say.
06 May
HealthDay Now: ACP Meeting on Health Wearables and Privacy
Dr. Jacqueline Fincher, president of the American College of Physicians and an internist in rural Georgia, spoke to HealthDay's Mabel Jong about the ACP's focus on privacy concerns at their annual meeting
Obesity Raises Odds for Many Common Cancers
MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Being obese or overweight can increase the odds of developing several types of cancers, new research from the United Kingdom reveals.
But shedding the excess pounds can lower the risk, researchers say.
Reducing obesity cuts the risk for endometrial cancer by 44% and uterine...
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Reviews Find No Evidence Weight-Loss Supplements Work
You're getting no real benefit from taking weight-loss supplements like garcinia cambogia, green tea extract, glucomannan, conjugated linoleic acid or chitosan, two new reviews show.
Most of the clinical trials studied didn't show these supplements producing any weight loss among users, the researchers said. In the rare cases where people ...
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Women Get Help Later Than Men When Heart Attack Strikes
MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- When young women land in the emergency room with chest pain, they wait longer and get less treatment than their male counterparts, a preliminary study finds.
Using a federal survey of U.S. hospitals, researchers found that younger women with chest pain were treated less urgently t...
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Road to Healthy Middle-Aged Brain May Begin in Childhood
MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Could having heart disease risk factors in childhood sow the seeds of thinking declines in middle-age?
It looks like it might, new research claims.
"I think it was not so big of a surprise for us, but maybe for the scientific community who have been focusing mainly on the mi...
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Ibuprofen, Similar Painkillers Won't Raise Risks for COVID Patients
Taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen doesn't make COVID-19 worse or more deadly, a new study finds.
When the pandemic began, doctors debated if NSAIDs increased the severity of COVID-19, but this study reports that the use of NSAIDs is safe, the researchers said. Common NSAIDs include Advil (ibuprofen) and...
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Vegetarian Diet Could Help Fight Off Disease: Study
There's more evidence that a switch away from meat in your diet could cut levels of unhealthy "biomarkers" that encourage disease, researchers say.
A new study reported Saturday at the virtual European Congress on Obesity (ECO) found that people on vegetarian diets have lower blood levels of disease-linked biomarkers, such as "bad" (LDL) c...
- Robert Preidt and Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporters
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