Even in your 70s and beyond, simple activities including playing bridge and socializing may help stave off mental decline.
That’s the conclusion of a study released Monday.
It didn’t look at costly, computer-based games that purport to keep the brain sharp. Instead, it found a benefit from activities many seniors have access...
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) contributes to nearly 6 million annual deaths in the United States, and standard treatments for the condition— which is linked to obesity, stroke, heart disease and diabetes— are only effective about 70 percent of the time. But researchers at the Ohio State University are trying to improve...
When you think of heart attacks, you might assume the most common causes are smoking, high cholesterol, or obesity. Mental health issues probably don’t spring to mind. But a new study suggests that depression poses just as great a risk to your heart health as those more familiar heart disease...
Deaths from heart-related causes tend to spike around the holidays, and the cold weather may not really be to blame, a recent study suggests.
To rule out the potential influence of freezing temperatures, researchers examined data on more than 738,000 deaths from 1988 to 2013 in New Zealand, where Christmas comes...
Back pain is the most common type of pain older men complain of, and it could signal a greater risk of falling, even for people with no other disabilities, according to a recent study.
“We know that older people with back pain have poor physical function, like lower strength and difficulty...
Health experts often assume that blood pressure measured in a medical office or hospital may be higher than usual, thanks to the anxiety brought on from being in a doctor’s office (a phenomenon known as white-coat hypertension). As a result, physicians may not take borderline-high blood pressure too seriously in...
People who expect good things to happen in the future are more likely than less-optimistic peers to survive the decades following a first heart attack, a study in Israel suggests.
The results don’t prove that optimism extends life, but doctors should nevertheless consider including optimism training in patients’ rehabilitation after heart...
Don’t count on smartphone health apps in an emergency: A review shows many don’t warn when you’re in danger.
The study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs found problems even with apps considered to be among the highest-quality offerings on the market.
There is a proliferation of health apps for mobile...
For quite some time now alarms have been going off as to the unavoidable effect of the endless usage of antibiotics in these United States, namely the oncoming development of so called superbugs, bacteria that have evolved to defend themselves and be resistant to antibiotics, our current main line of...
An anti-cancer vaccine made from a leukemia patient’s own cells can dramatically increase the chance of long-term survival against the deadly disease, a new study indicates.
Patients with acute myeloid leukemia — one of the most aggressive blood cancers — must undergo intense chemotherapy to beat back the disease. And then...
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