ED Healed With This Hormonal Boost

by Christian Goodman | Nov 6, 2020

One of the most common and yet most controversial methods to treat ED is called testosterone replacement therapy. If you’ve been considering (or already undertaken) this therapy, you probably have two very important questions: 1) Does it work? 2) Is it safe? A new...

Why Women Have Higher Heart Attack Risk After Menopause

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...

A Serious Health Hazard for Dementia Sufferers’ Caregivers

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...

Is This Heart Supplement A Myth Or A Miracle?

by Christian Goodman | Nov 3, 2020

Researchers have long been struggling to establish whether omega-3 intake genuinely reduces our risk for stroke and heart attack. The problem is that different studies seem to produce very different results. But a review of the literature just published in Mayo Clinic...

What Is Acid Reflux Without A Cause?

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...

Stroke and Heart Attack Despite Good Cholesterol

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...

Curing This Disease Causes Shingles

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,...

This Food Item Relieves Arthritis Better Than Pain Killers

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...

When Exercising Causes Heart Attack and Death

by Scott Davis | Oct 28, 2020

Is exercise actually good for you? Silly question. Of course it is. But too much of a good thing can be… well… bad. And that’s the case with one particular popular exercise. Do too much of it and your risk of heart attack will start heading skyward. So now you have a...

This Sugary Drink Tackles Type 2 Diabetes

by ShellyManning | Oct 27, 2020

Cheers! Although this drink is very popular, it’s generally considered unhealthy, especially for people suffering type 2 diabetes, due to its high sugar level. A recent Danish study reveals that drinking it moderately is actually protective against type 2 diabetes—and...