Nearly half of American adults are not getting the sleep they need, a new study shows. That sleep debt is being compounded for many by what researchers call social jet lag, which is the difference between a person’s preferred sleep/wake times and those that society expects. “This is a well-done study examining a very large… read on > read on >
Equipping offices with “healthier” furnishings could reduce human exposure to risky PFAS chemicals, new research suggests. To look at indoor PFAS levels, a team led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston, analyzed building dust in classrooms and common campus spaces. “Our findings provide desperately needed scientific evidence for the success of… read on > read on >
More American youth than ever are so addicted to e-cigarettes that they vape within 5 minutes of waking up in the morning, a new analysis shows. While that percentage was around just 1% in 2017, it increased every year after that. It reached 10.3% by 2021, researchers reported. “The increasing intensity of use of modern… read on > read on >
Women tend to be better able than men to recover from kidney injury, but why? Apparently women have an advantage at the molecular level that protects them from a form of cell death that occurs in injured kidneys, a new study in mice has discovered. “Kidney disease afflicts more than 850 million people worldwide every… read on > read on >
Evaluating a person’s psychological stress can be a good way to gauge their risk of heart and blood vessel disease, new research suggests. And a brief questionnaire could help with the assessment, the study findings showed. “Our study is part of the accumulating evidence that psychological distress is a really important factor in a cardiovascular… read on > read on >
While it can take some time for COVID patients who are taken off ventilators to regain consciousness, a new study suggests this is not necessarily a bad omen. Instead, it might be the way the body protects the brain from oxygen deprivation as a patient starts to recover. Physicians should take these lengthy recovery times… read on > read on >
More and more nervous patients are showing up stoned for dental appointments, often forcing dentists to postpone treatment until the patient sobers up, new survey data shows. As more states are legalizing marijuana, more than half of dentists (52%) report seeing patients high on weed or other drugs, a new survey from the American Dental… read on > read on >
TUESDAY, Nov. 8, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Being physically active in middle age – before having a heart attack – may reduce the risk of having a second heart attack, according to new research. Scientists have long known that regular physical activity helps prevent stroke, heart attacks and other forms of cardiovascular disease.… read on > read on >
Mindfulness is a centuries-old practice that’s become trendy in recent years — and a new study now says it can help your heart health. Training in mindfulness can help people better manage their high blood pressure by helping them stick to healthy lifestyle changes, a new clinical trial reports. An eight-week customized mindfulness program helped… read on > read on >
Scientists have used a transplant procedure to apparently cure diabetes in lab mice, without the need for immune-suppressing drugs afterward. The success is a first step in developing a safer way to use cell transplants to possibly cure type 1 diabetes. But that’s a long way off, researchers said — and findings in mice often… read on > read on >
