Tag: <span>health risk</span>

Home / health risk
Aching joints make older adults reach for many forms of pain relief—but health risks could follow
Post

Aching joints make older adults reach for many forms of pain relief—but health risks could follow

by  University of Michigan Data from the National Poll on Healthy Aging about joint pain impacts on older adults. Credit: University of Michigan Popping a pill may bring short-term relief for arthritis-related joint pain, but many older adults may not realize that what they swallow could raise their risk of other health problems, or that other...

Low iron is a health risk made worse by COVID. How to get more without reaching for supplements
Post

Low iron is a health risk made worse by COVID. How to get more without reaching for supplements

by Yianna Zhang, Ken Ng and Said Ajlouni,  The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock “Beauty is an iron mine,” once remarked the Australian mining magnate, Gina Reinhart. She was talking about a precious resource, but iron is also profoundly important to living organisms: from bacteria and fungi, to mammals like us. Iron acts as a key to numerous metabolic...