Three-Minute Test Could Save Your Life

Three-Minute Test Could Save Your Life

by | Jul 2, 2019

Your home blood pressure monitor could be even more useful than you thought. You already know that keeping track of your blood pressure is important, but this recent discovery takes it one step further. It can predict with startling accuracy your chances of suffering...
Turn Back the Clock on Your Ageing Heart

Turn Back the Clock on Your Ageing Heart

by | Jul 1, 2019

Want to live forever? Scientists have taken one step closer to achieving this dream after finding a secret protein that keeps cardiac muscle youthful. And it may be the key to keeping heart attacks and stroke at bay for good. Cell magazine published a Harvard study...
Common Drug Raises Cardiovascular Disease Risk 32%

Common Drug Raises Cardiovascular Disease Risk 32%

by | Jun 25, 2019

Antibiotics have saved countless lives since Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in 1928. But overuse has led to worries about bacteria becoming resistant to these commonly prescribed drugs. That’s common knowledge of course, but what isn’t is the other...
How Cholesterol Causes Strokes and Heart Attacks

How Cholesterol Causes Strokes and Heart Attacks

by | Jun 16, 2019

Our immune systems are supposed to keep us healthy, but occasionally they do their jobs a little too well…well enough to kill us, in fact. You can read about one example of this in a new study by German scientists, in the journal, Nature. They’ve been looking at...
One Spice to Cure Them All

One Spice to Cure Them All

by | Jun 9, 2019

If you’re a Lord of the Rings fan, please let me apologize for riffing on the, “One ring to rule them all,” quotation. And if that leaves you scratching your head, then let me apologize for sounding weird, but the comparison seemed too good to resist! In the famous...