by Christian Goodman | Aug 26, 2020
Gut health is usually not on the long list of risk factors when it comes to dementia. But according to a new study from University of California at San Francisco and Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, it should be. One specific gut health issue (you may not...
by Jodi Knapp | Aug 25, 2020
Type 2 diabetes is well known for causing blindness, kidney disease, and nerve damage to the legs. But there is another common complication, one that you might not realize is caused by type 2 diabetes. But it can be even more serious than the once better understood. A...
by Christian Goodman | Aug 23, 2020
One way is to put people under lots of both mental and physical stress—something that would normally skyrocket their blood pressure. The next step is to give them an herb and see what happens. This is exactly what researchers from the University of Nottingham did, and...
by Julissa Clay | Aug 22, 2020
In recent years, researchers have established that people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have intestinal bacteria that are different from those in healthy people. In a new study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, a group of...
by Christian Goodman | Aug 21, 2020
The most commonly prescribed treatment for sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure devices that involve sleeping with a mask over the face and beside a noisy machine. If this sounds like a terrible solution, the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine has now...
by ShellyManning | Aug 20, 2020
For the management of gout, the American College of Rheumatology just released its 2020 guidelines—or guideline; the only recommendation is for people to lower their uric acid levels. And while the American College of Rheumatology wants us to do this by using drugs,...