Ken Koehler lay curled up on the floor of his bathroom in late November of 2011, waiting for the diarrhea and stomach pain to finally end. A week earlier, the…
Author: David Schardt
Liver cancer is the fastest-growing cause of cancer deaths in the United States, according to new data from the American Cancer Society. About 41,000 new cases of liver cancer are…
Wouldn’t it be great to have the flexible, healthy arteries of a young person again? Arteries that are resistant to heart attacks, strokes, and dementia? “Maintaining a youthful vascular function…
I’m on the 5:2 diet,” actor Benedict Cumberbatch told the (London) Times. “You have to, for Sherlock.” That’s his hit BBC and PBS series. Cumberbatch, and most other celebrities who…
“If you want to live longer, take good care of your telomeres,” the Washington Post told readers earlier this year. “The answer to long life may not be any magical…
Did your physician suggest cutting back on salt after your blood pressure started creeping up? If you banished the salt shaker from your dinner table, that move alone probably wasn’t…
Most of us are interested in keeping mentally sharp as we grow older. Two new studies help show us how to do that. Sticking away from amyloid Amyloid is the…
Jogging, walking, swimming, running, biking, dancing, gardening. Which type of exercise is linked to the longest lifespans? To find out, scientists recently analyzed data from several large long-term studies that…
On an average day in the United States, more than 1,600 people will suffer a first stroke and another 500 will have their second or third one. Most will be…
Traces of 51 drugs have been detected in the wastewater that Burlington, Vermont, residents flush or pour down their drains and that ends up in Lake Champlain. Researchers at the…