Eating Eggs Regularly May Cut Alzheimers Risk By Up To 27 Percent
A new study from Loma Linda University Health has found that adults 65 and older who eat eggs regularly have a significantly lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, with people who consumed at least one egg per day for five or more days a week showing up to a 27 percent reduction in risk compared […]
Scientists Reviewed 217 Trials To Find The Best Exercise For Knee Arthritis Pain
A sweeping review of 217 clinical trials involving more than 15,000 participants has produced the clearest guidance yet on which types of exercise are most effective for people living with knee osteoarthritis, and the answer turns out to be accessible, inexpensive, and available to almost anyone: walking, cycling, and swimming. The study, published in The […]
The Supreme Court Just Stepped In To Preserve Mail Access To The Most Common Abortion Medication In The US
The Supreme Court stepped in on Monday to temporarily preserve telehealth and mail access to mifepristone, the medication used in more than 60 percent of abortions in the United States, while the justices review emergency appeals challenging a lower court ruling that had reinstated a nationwide requirement that the drug be obtained in person. The […]
Scientists Just Proved For The First Time That Human Hearts Can Repair Themselves After A Heart Attack
For decades, medicine has operated on a widely accepted assumption: when a heart attack destroys heart muscle cells, they are gone permanently, replaced by scar tissue, with no hope of natural repair. A landmark study from the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute, and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital has now overturned that assumption for […]
He Was One Of The First People To Get A Pig Kidney And His Story Traces The Golden Age Of Transplant Medicine
Tim Andrews of Concord, New Hampshire was running out of options three years ago when doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital offered him a chance at something the world had never seen: a genetically modified pig kidney, transplanted into a living human being. Andrews became one of the first 10 people in history to undergo the […]
Every Patient In This Bowel Cancer Trial Has Been Cancer Free For Nearly Three Years
In one of the most striking results from any cancer clinical trial in recent years, every single patient in a bowel cancer study has remained cancer-free for nearly three years after receiving a short course of immunotherapy before surgery, with zero relapses recorded in the entire cohort as of the latest follow-up data. The NEOPRISM-CRC […]
Scientists Just Restored Memory In Alzheimers Models By Blocking One Protein And The Implications Are Huge
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have identified a new potential strategy for fighting Alzheimer’s disease, finding that blocking a single protein called PTP1B restored memory and improved the brain’s ability to clear the toxic plaque buildup that drives the disease in mouse models. The protein PTP1B was first discovered by lead researcher Professor Nicholas […]
Cooking One Home Meal A Week Could Cut Your Dementia Risk By 30 Percent And For New Cooks Its Even More
A new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has found that older adults who prepare a home-cooked meal from scratch at least once a week have a significantly lower risk of developing dementia, with the protective effect growing even stronger for people who are just learning to cook. Researchers drew on […]
The FDA Fast-Tracked Psychedelic Medicines For Depression And PTSD
The Food and Drug Administration has fast-tracked three psychedelic medicines for review, issuing priority vouchers to companies studying psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression, psilocybin for major depressive disorder, and methylone, a compound related to MDMA, for post-traumatic stress disorder, in a development that could put the first FDA-approved psychedelic medicines on the market as soon as […]
Jurassic Park Star Sam Neill Is Cancer Free
Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill, who was diagnosed with stage-three blood cancer in 2022 and spent years managing the illness with chemotherapy, revealed this week that he is now completely cancer free after turning to a cutting-edge immunotherapy treatment when the chemotherapy stopped working. Neill, 78, best known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in the […]