by Scott Davis | Nov 5, 2020
Scientists have long been baffled by the fact that women have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease than men before menopause, even though they have a higher risk than men after menopause. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen may have solved this...
by Christian Goodman | Nov 4, 2020
Here at Blue Heron Health News, we spend a lot of time talking about diseases, their treatments, their causes, and their consequences for disease sufferers. But it is not often that researchers study the effects of disease on the people taking care of...
by Scott Davis | Nov 1, 2020
Acid reflux is bad enough if you know exactly what causes it, such as a hernia in your esophagus or a weak valve at the top of your stomach, but many people suffer from reflux or excess acidity without medical science being able to find any reason for it. The journal...
by Scott Davis | Oct 31, 2020
If your cholesterol numbers are good, you may still not be protected from heart attacks and strokes because of something you did during your teens and 20s. That’s because—according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology—it may be...
by Julissa Clay | Oct 30, 2020
The problem with modern medicine is that when doctors try to cure one disease with medication, it causes side effects that can lead to another disease. According to a new study, this is exactly the case with shingles. Shingles occurs when the herpes zoster virus,...
by Julissa Clay | Oct 29, 2020
An interesting new study, published in the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, shows that an unpretentious and cheap herb relieves pain better than common NSAID ibuprofen. What’s more, you can get this dirt-cheap herb in most supermarkets and all health food...