Here are the top read news for #ExerciseAndHealth: The 5 Diseases That Exercise May Ward Off — If You Get Enough, That Is: They found that getting 600 METs/week had very little effect on the risk of the five diseases mentioned above–for example, people who got just this amount had a 2% reduced risk of…
Here are the top read news for #WomensHealth: Women’s long work hours linked to alarming increases in cancer, heart disease: Women who put in long hours for the bulk of their careers may pay a steep price: life-threatening illnesses, including heart disease and cancer. Work weeks that averaged 60 hours or more over three decades…
Here are the top read news for #WomensHealth: Mastectomy followed by standard therapy improves survival in stage IV breast cancer patients: Surgery to remove the primary tumor in women diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, followed by the standard combination of therapies, adds months to the patients’ lives, compared with standard therapy alone, an international…
Here are the top read news for #HighBloodPressure: Alcohol and high blood pressure may not mix: Even an ounce of alcohol a day might alter heart function if you have high blood pressure, researchers report. For someone with high blood pressure, drinking — even in small amounts — can impair functioning of the lower left…
Here are the top read news for #Diabetes: The Full-Fat Paradox: Dairy Fat Linked To Lower Diabetes Risk: A new study finds the dairy fats found in milk, yogurt and cheese may help protect against Type 2 diabetes. The research, published in the journal Circulation, included 3,333 adults. Beginning in the late 1980s, researchers took…
Here are the top read news in #DrugSafety: How much does chemo impact fertility?: New study looks at how chemo affects childhood cancer survivors’ ability to have kids later in life. A new Fred Hutch study looked at chemotherapy’s impact on the fertility of young cancer patients later in life. Women fared better, for the…
Here are the top read news for #Health: How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body: The benefits of mindfulness meditation, increasingly popular in recent years, are supposed to be many: reduced stress and risk for various diseases, improved well-being, a rewired brain. But the experimental bases to support these claims have been few. Supporters of…
