Archive for the 'Health News' Category
Major Depression Often Follows Brain Injury
People who are hospitalized for a traumatic brain injury face an almost eight-fold higher risk of also suffering major depression.
That’s the finding of a team led by Charles H. Bombardier, professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and first author of a study published in the May 19 [...]
Quick Weight Loss May Be Best for Long-Term Success
When it comes to weight-loss patterns, the old adage proclaims that “slow and steady” wins the race, but recent research suggests otherwise.
A new study found that obese women who started out losing 1.5 pounds a week or more on average and kept it up lost more weight over time than women who lost more slowly. [...]
Nuts in your diet can cut cholesterol: study
Going nuts in your diet can be good for your health, according to a study published Monday, which showed that eating nuts helps to lower blood cholesterol levels. People who ate an average of 67 grams (2.4 ounces) of nuts a day saw a 5.1 percent fall in total cholesterol concentration and a 7.4 percent [...]
Life Insurance Benefits.
Life insurance is a type of policy that seeks to make financial provisions to beneficiaries upon the death of a sole provider. However, many people seek life insurance for a multiplicity of reasons. Most people will want to die with the notion that their family will be well taken care of economically. It could be [...]
Gene scan shows man’s risk for heart attack, cancer
A California college professor who sequenced his own genome has had it analyzed — and discovered he has a high risk of dropping dead of a sudden heart attack, as well as a high prostate cancer risk.
The analysis, published in the Lancet medical journal, illustrates the challenges facing doctors, patients and healthcare systems as such [...]
Olive oil good for health
The heart-healthy effects of the famous “Mediterranean diet” may have something to do with components of virgin olive oil that repress genes that advance inflammation, a new study reports.
“These findings strengthen the relationship between inflammation, obesity and diet and provide evidence at the most basic level of healthy effects derived from virgin olive oil use [...]
Green Tea Good for eyes
A new study says that beneficial ingredients in green tea penetrate into the tissues of the eye and may help protect against glaucoma and other eye diseases.
Researchers analyzed eye tissue from rats that drank green tea and found that the lens, retina and other tissues absorbed significant amounts of green tea catechins, which are antioxidants [...]
New Gene ID’d in Brittle Bone Disease
The study is published in the Jan. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
A new gene involved in a recessive form of weak bone disease has been pinpointed by researchers.
The gene is the third to be identified in a sequence of genes involved in previously unexplained forms of osteogenesis imperfecta, a sometimes fatal [...]
Added Suger : Heart Thereat
The added sugars in prepared and processed foods are threatening Americans’ cardiovascular health, lowering levels of protective HDL cholesterol, raising levels of potentially dangerous triglcerides and possibly making people fatter, a new study finds.
“We looked at a group of people representative of the U.S. population and found a very strong correlation between cardiovascular risk factors [...]
Circumcision may lower risk of HIV Aids
The findings, from two studies in Uganda, suggest there may be additional benefits to offering circumcision to men in countries with high rates of heterosexual HIV transmission
Circumcision has been found to lower men’s risk of
Contracting HIV through heterosexual sex, and now new findings suggest that it also cuts the risk of infection with the human [...]