Cancer medicines causing heart diseases, says study
With modern technologies, the field of medical science has also advanced. Doctors and scientists have discovered new treatment methods to cure several deadly…
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Changing Clocks to Daylight Saving Time Is Bad for Your Health
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
As people in the U.S. prepare to set their clocks ahead one hour on Sunday, March 12, 2023, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard time to daylight saving time.
About one-third of Americans say they don’t look forward to these twice-yearly time changes. And nearly two-thirds would like to eliminate them…
Cluster headache patients more likely to get heart disease, mental problems: Study
A study published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of…
Ending bad cholesterol with a single injection—an opportunity for the brave
More than 200 million people around the world take statins with brand names such as Lipitor and Crestor daily to lower their bad cholesterol, known as LDL. Unfortunately, a majority fail to stick with their daily pills, putting them at risk of heart disease.
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More than 200 million people around the world take statins with brand…
The Risk of Heart Disease After COVID
In December 2020, a week before cardiologist Stuart Katz was scheduled to receive his first COVID-19 vaccine, he came down with a fever. He spent the next two weeks wracked with a cough, body aches and chills. After months of helping others to weather the pandemic, Katz, who works at New York University, was having his own first-hand experience of COVID-19.
On Christmas Day, Katz’s acute illness finally subsided. But many symptoms lingered, including some related to the organ he’s built his career around: the heart.…
People in Republican Counties Have Higher Death Rates Than Those in Democratic Counties
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the link between politics and health became glaringly obvious. Democrat-leaning “blue” states were more likely to enact mask requirements and vaccine and social distancing mandates. Republican-leaning “red” states were much more resistant to health measures. The consequences of those differences emerged by the end of 2020, when rates of hospitalization and death from COVID rose in conservative counties and dropped in liberal ones. That divergence continued through 2021, when vaccines became…