by Christian Goodman | Sep 19, 2019
There are many types of vertigo and many possible treatment options. Most of them unfortunately very ineffective. So, you can imagine it made quite a stir when a new study revealed that one vitamin can cure two of the most common types of vertigo. What’s more, this...
by Christian Goodman | Sep 18, 2019
There’s no doubt that high blood pressure is dangerous, but a study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine suggests that you don’t always need to panic at the first sign of a high reading. The Canadian team behind the study set out to look at how often high blood...
by Scott Davis | Sep 17, 2019
Diets seem to come and go all the time, but the paleo diet has been going from strength to strength. Have you felt tempted to try it? If you’ve adopted “the caveman diet” for heart health reasons, then a new study in the European Journal of Nutrition might come as a...
by Scott Davis | Sep 15, 2019
It’s usually things like old age and constipation that cause hemorrhoids, but there isn’t all that much research around on other possible causes. An article in the American Journal of Gastroenterology offers one new avenue though: it says that your children may have...
by Christian Goodman | Sep 14, 2019
Bad food tastes good. That’s part of the reason why it can be so difficult to beat conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol. It’s unfortunate that your cardiovascular health is not best friends with many of the sweet things in this world. But if...
by ShellyManning | Sep 13, 2019
Arthritis sufferer’s number in the millions, so anything that helps them to reduce the pain of this debilitating condition is always welcome. A recent study from Sweden may now have found something that does that. Researchers found that a commonly available oil could...
by Scott Davis | Sep 9, 2019
A recently published study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows that people at risk of shingles are also at risk of heart attacks and strokes because of the virus that causes shingles. Shingles comes from the Herpes Zoster virus. It first causes...
by Julissa Clay | Sep 8, 2019
Most people think of psoriasis as annoying skin disease, nothing worse than that, and certainly not something that could be fatal. But a new study reveals psoriasis can lay the groundwork for something that might kill you. In July 2019, British scientists presented an...
by Scott Davis | Sep 7, 2019
We’ve been told for years to eat more polyunsaturated fatty acids, like the omega-3s and omega-6s to lower cholesterol and improve heart health. But now a new study in the journal Communications Biology has found two huge flaws in all the previous research, so what...
by Christian Goodman | Sep 6, 2019
Ask the World Health Organization which health problem is the world’s biggest and they’ll tell you it’s high blood pressure. 1.13 billion people are affected by it, and if they don’t get treatment then they’re looking at a heart attack or stroke at best....