September 18, 2024 by Lancet Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainAlthough stroke is highly preventable and treatable, there has been a rapid rise in the global stroke burden between 1990 and 2021, due to both population growth and the rise of aging populations worldwide, as well as a substantial increase in people’s exposure to environmental and behavioral...
September 17, 2024 by Ohio State University Medical Center Credit: Markus Winkler from PexelsInjectable weight loss drugs are popular right now but can be hard to get because they are in short supply or too expensive without insurance. The result is that some people are skipping the doctor’s office and reaching out to potentially unreliable...
September 16, 2024 by Rasha Al-Lami, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainMore than two-thirds of women with endometriosis missed school or work due to pain from the condition, in a study of more than 17,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the U.S. That is a key finding of new research published...
News Release 16-Sep-2024 Reports and ProceedingsKinsey Institute The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, in partnership with leading sexual wellbeing company the Lovehoney Group and its Womanizer brand, has released early data from new nationally representative surveys exploring menopause knowledge, symptom management, medical care engagement, and health disparities among Americans. Phase 1 surveyed of 1,500 American...
September 12, 2024 by NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute NIH researchers and collaborators have found that being a carrier for sickle cell disease, known as having sickle cell trait, increases the risk of blood clots, a risk that is the same among diverse human populations that may not traditionally be associated with sickle cell disease....
September 11, 2024 by University of California, San Francisco Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainAtrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heart beat that can lead to stroke or sudden death, is three times more common than previously thought, affecting nearly 5% of the population, or 10.5 million U.S. adults, according to new estimates from UC San Francisco. A-Fib,...
September 10, 2024 by British Medical Journal Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainStatin treatment is cost effective and linked to better health outcomes in older people with or without previous cardiovascular disease, although the risk reductions were substantially smaller in the latter, reports a modeling on the lifetime benefits of these drugs among the over-70s, published online...
September 9, 2024 by University College London Credit: Ageing Research Reviews (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2024.102445People with dementia are more likely to have suicidal thoughts but are not necessarily more likely to attempt or die by suicide than the general population, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The study, published in Ageing Research Reviews, analyzed...
September 8, 2024 by Diabetologia Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients who are being treated with systemic glucocorticoids are more than twice as likely to develop diabetes as those not receiving the treatment, the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Madrid, Spain (9-13 September) will hear. Glucocorticoids (sometimes known...
September 8, 2024 by Lori Solomon The risk for lung cancer is high in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pulmonary complications, according to a study published online Sept. 3 in Modern Rheumatology. Shunsuke Mori, M.D., Ph.D., from the Kumamoto Saishun Medical Center in Koshi, Japan, and colleagues assessed the incidence and predictive factors of...
