Day June 25, 2016

Consuming a plant-based diet—especially one rich in high-quality plant foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes—is linked with substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according …

The first Canadian guideline for Bell palsy, facial weakness or paralysis caused by facial nerve damage, is aimed at helping physicians manage and treat patients during the acute phase as well as recovery. The guideline, …

Glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, is associated with elevated pressure in the eye. This elevated pressure essentially is due to a plumbing problem. Fluid builds up in the eye, increasing pressure and eventually …

Bacteria that have the potential to abet breast cancer are present in the breasts of cancer patients, while beneficial bacteria are more abundant in healthy breasts, where they may actually be protecting women from cancer, …

(HealthDay) — Narrow-angled episiotomies increase the risk of obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS), while other factors, including point of incision and episiotomy length and depth, reduce the risk of OASIS, according …

When we smoke cigarettes, dozens of genes important for immune defense are altered in the epithelial cells that line the respiratory tract. Several of these changes likely increase the risk of bacterial infections, viruses, …

Blacks with atrial fibrillation (AFib) have nearly double the risk than their white counterparts of stroke, heart failure, coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality from all causes, according to a study published today in …

Here, five women reveal how marriage changed their careers—for better and for worse. (Plus, here’s how to get ahead of the pay gap, instead of just getting mad about it.)  1. “I Became Second Fiddle.” “I work in the events…

The use of medical marijuana for millions of patients suffering from a wide range of health conditions and the subsequent therapeutic benefits has long been documented. Twenty-three states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam, have determined that Cannabis…

What Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will host a Cancer Moonshot Summit in Washington, D.C. at the White House. Cheryl Willman, MD, Director and CEO of The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, will attend. At the…

Former President George H.W. Bush, perhaps the most powerful person to ever publicly declare how much he hated broccoli, got a letter from a 5-year-old extolling the virtues of the vegetable. The 41st president tweeted a picture he had received…

Charles Eisenstein, author of The Ascent of Humanity, believes modern culture rests upon a foundational Story of Separation. The product of post-modernity and callous economic theory, the story goes thus: “What you are is an independent being in an indifferent…

Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital has added a unique service for its Aboriginal clients — a sweat lodge to help promote spiritual, physical and emotional healing. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto unveiled…

Sign up for Women’s Health’s new newsletter, So This Happened, to get the day’s trending stories and health studies. Recently on Facebook, Brien posted side-by-side photos taken 12 hours apart—before bed and upon waking up. The difference in the size…

Sign up for Women’s Health’s new newsletter, So This Happened, to get the day’s trending stories and health studies. For the survey, by the British website Superdrug Online Doctor, researchers asked 2,000 people to rank their biggest sex fears on…

Sign up for Women’s Health’s new newsletter, So This Happened, to get the day’s trending stories and health studies. Several pro-choice groups, including Women on Waves, the Alliance for Choice, the Abortion Rights Campaign, Rosa, and the Labour Allegiance, arranged the…

Fitting exercise in between other commitments can seem difficult when life is so busy.  And if we set our goals too high, it can be off-putting.  Ironically, if exercise is seen purely as a means to an end, it can…

A kidney transplantation means much more than good health to Jason E. Jones. The 53 year-old Hyde Park artist and Loyola Medicine patient draws daily creative inspiration from his chronic health experience. “My new kidney changed not only my life…

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Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA, professor of medicine in the section of cardiovascular medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, is the recipient of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2016 Gold Heart Award. The AHA, whose mission is…

The research, published in the journal Cell Reports, was led by W. Daniel Tracey Jr., a professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science and the Department of Biology. “Our…

i Twelve years ago, I tried to drive a stake into the heart of the personality-testing industry. Personality tests are neither valid nor reliable, I argued, and we should stop using them — especially for making decisions that affect the…

Every year, the arrival of summer marks the unofficial beginning of grilling season. Millions of Americans wipe the dust off of the grill in eager anticipation. And who can blame them? A grill makes almost any type of food taste…

If you’ve ever suffered a sprain, you’re no doubt familiar with RICE—which stands for rest, ice, compression, and elevation. Back in 1978, Dr. Gabe Mirkin popularized the acronym in his “The Sports Medicine Book,” and it has become the standard recommendation for many sudden sports…

Katherine Bouton is the author of “Living Better With Hearing Loss: A Guide to Health, Happiness, Love, Sex, Work, Friends … and Hearing Aids,” and a memoir, “Shouting Won’t Help: Why I — and 5o Million Other Americans — Can’t Hear You”. Both…

RELATED: The Reason Why This Little Girl Is Standing on a Toilet Will Tear You Up Inside “He tells me about the boys he likes at school,” she wrote. “He says he will marry them and adopt babies. Maybe he…

Hold. The. Phone. Last time we checked, women play sports, too. But apparently that still hasn’t hit home with emoji developers. Sign up for Women’s Health’s new newsletter, So This Happened, to get the day’s trending stories and health studies. And, unfortunately,…

Stacy Wehrman Feeley of Michigan took to Facebook to share a heart-wrenching photo of her 3-year-old. When Feeley happened upon her daughter standing on the toilet in their bathroom and covering her heart, she thought she was just being silly.…

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Toxic arsenic initially accumulates in the nuclei of plants’ cells. This has been revealed by an X-ray examination of the aquatic plant rigid hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum) using DESY’s X-ray source PETRA III. Even at comparatively low concentrations, the arsenic also…

Racial discrimination, whether it’s derogatory language or unequal treatment, impacts communities and individuals in different ways. For children, the effects are sometimes emotional scars, and as a University of Houston researcher discovered, even thoughts of death. UH psychology professor Rheeda…

Bacteria that have the potential to abet breast cancer are present in the breasts of cancer patients, while beneficial bacteria are more abundant in healthy breasts, where they may actually be protecting women from cancer, according to Gregor Reid, PhD,…

Between fall 1993 and fall 2013, the number of full-time faculty at degree-granting postsecondary institutions increased by 45 percent, while the number of part-time faculty increased by 104 percent. As a result of the steep climb in the number of…

By Margarita Antidze and Philip Pullella YEREVAN (Reuters) – A somber Pope Francis, “with pain in my heart,” paid tribute on Saturday to the 1.5 million Armenians massacred in 1915, an event which he has labeled a genocide, risking Turkey’s…

In the study, scientists tinkered with cat food and discovered that felines don’t give a crap about the smell, taste, or texture of their food. Instead, they’re all about the nutrients. To determine this, researchers mixed up varying levels of…

“If you want more children, why don’t you wait, and you will have grandchildren?” I’ll never forget my eldest son, Jaeson, speaking those words to me. I was in my early fifties and had just told him I was going…

My last boyfriend’s dick was sort of like that. It was one of those penises you encounter and know you may never see another like it again: perfectly proportioned, impressively rigid, huge, but not terrifyingly so. While I wasn’t tempted…

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People who visit their primary care physicians are more likely to get potentially life-saving colon cancer screenings and follow up on abnormal stool blood test results – even in health systems that heavily promote mail-in home stool blood tests that…

New devices called stent retrievers, which effectively reverse strokes, have revolutionized the treatment of certain stroke patients, according to an article in the journal Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. “Stent retrievers are a major advance in acute ischemic stroke care and…