by British Medical Journal Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Carrying too much weight—including a midriff bulge—from midlife onwards is linked to a heightened risk of physical frailty in older age, finds research published in the open access journal BMJ Open. Frailty is often wrongly perceived as a purely wasting disorder, say the researchers, who emphasize the importance...
Judith Graham January 19, 2023 A new coronavirus variant is circulating, the most transmissible one yet. Hospitalizations of infected patients are rising. And older adults represent nearly 90% of U.S. deaths from covid-19 in recent months, the largest portion since the start of the pandemic. What does that mean for people 65 and older catching covid for the first time or...
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA Using prenatal magnetic resonance imaging, a group of MedUni Vienna researchers examined the placentas and foetuses of women who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy. Their research results demonstrate that the different strains of the virus that emerged during the pandemic led to varying degrees of damage: especially involving pre-Omicron variants,...
Past studies have shown that intermittent fasting and living a physically active lifestyle may be able to slow age-related cognitive decline, which is a natural part of aging. New research has found that exercise, particularly short bursts of high intensity exercise can increase the amount of neuroprotective brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the body. The...
Researchers examined the link between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and male pattern hair loss. They found that men with male pattern hair loss consumed almost double the sugar-sweetened beverages of those without the condition. They noted that their findings are based on correlation, not causation and that further research is needed to confirm the link. Male...
Eve Bender November 28, 2022 Consumption of flavonols may preserve memory and cognition over time, new research suggests. Three specific components of flavonols in particular — kaempferol, myricetin, and quercetin — were associated with slower global cognitive decline. Dr Thomas Holland “It is never too early, or too late, to start making healthy lifestyle changes, especially when it comes...
Victoria Stern January 17, 2023 “Is this really the hill you want to die on?” asked Rebecca Shatsky, MD, a medical oncologist at the University of California San Diego. It was November 18 and Shatsky was on the phone with a retired oncologist working for the health insurance company Premera Blue Cross. Shatsky was appealing a prior authorization denial...
Jennie Smith January 17, 2023 People with higher dietary zinc intake have a nearly one-third lower risk of migraine than those who get little zinc in their diets, according to results from a cross-sectional study of more than 11,000 American adults. For their research, published online in Headache, Huanxian Liu, MD, and colleagues at Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, analyzed publicly available...
by Noah Brown, Massachusetts General Hospital Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2023). DOI: 10.1172/JCI164501 Food allergies are caused by IgE antibodies that are generated by the immune system and bind to allergens such as peanuts, triggering a reaction that in extreme cases can be potentially life-threatening. New research by scientists at Massachusetts General...
by Dennis Thompson Television ads for drugs are filled with glowing images of people living their best lives, all thanks to that new med they’ve been prescribed. But drugs being touted on TV often have little to no benefit compared to other treatments, a new study published online Jan. 13 in JAMA Network Openfinds. Fewer than...
