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Mediterranean Diet Could Mend Hearts In Erectile Dysfunction Sufferers, Study Says
Suffering from erectile dysfunction? Then you may want to consider a Mediterranean diet for help with heart health.
It's estimated that as many as 30 million men in the U.S. suffer from erectile dysfunction, which is most commonly caused by disease or injury elsewhere in the body -- not just "old age." According to the National Institutes of Health, diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure and atherosclerosis are among the most common culprits -- as they can cause damage to the arteries and restrict blood flow.
"Erectile dysfunction is not a symptom of aging, it is a bad sign from the body that something is wrong...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 4, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Advice For A Happy, Healthy Life From A Man Dedicated To Those Pursuits
Why do you what you do?
Can you trace the source of your professional motivation to a single event or person?
As CEO of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, I'm privileged to interact with many amazing leaders in cardiovascular medicine, technology, business and beyond. I'm always fascinated by the backstory of how each chose the path into a particular field.
When it comes to medical professionals, some simply love the science. Others are drawn by the desire to help people. And then there are those to whom it's personal.
Dr. Steven Houser fits all three categories.
After four years of playin...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How AI Is Changing Medical Imaging to Improve Patient Care
That doctors can peer into the human body without making a single incision once seemed like a miraculous concept. But medical imaging in radiology has come a long way, and the latest artificial intelligence (AI)-driven techniques are going much further: exploiting the massive computing abilities of AI and machine learning to mine body scans for differences that even the human eye can miss.
Imaging in medicine now involves sophisticated ways of analyzing every data point to distinguish disease from health and signal from noise. If the first few decades of radiology were about refining the resolution of the pictures taken of...
Source: TIME: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Innovation sponsorshipblock Source Type: news
What to Know About High Triglycerides
Discussions about heart health often center around blood pressure and cholesterol, with factors like poor sleep, smoking, family history of heart disease, and chronic stress thrown in. However, there’s one variable that doesn’t get covered as often, even though it can be an important indicator of cardiovascular risk: triglycerides.
“We don’t really talk about triglycerides very much, especially compared to cholesterol, but they’re actually an essential part of understanding heart health,” says Dr. Adriana Quinones-Camacho, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Health in New York. “For some...
Source: TIME: Health - May 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
National NIH Collaboration To Find Parkinson's Biomarkers And Open Vast Data Sharing Opportunities
Last month, the National Institutes of Health announced a new collaborative initiative that aims to accelerate the search for biomarkers -- changes in the body that can be used to predict, diagnose or monitor a disease -- in Parkinson's disease, in part by improving collaboration among researchers and helping patients get involved in clinical studies. As part of this program, launched by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the NIH, Clemens Scherzer, MD, a neurologist and researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), was awarded $2...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Parkinson's Disease Source Type: news
Botox Reveals New Wrinkle In Brain Communication
National Institutes of Health researchers used the popular anti-wrinkle agent Botox to discover a new and important role for a group of molecules that nerve cells use to quickly send messages. This novel role for the molecules, called SNARES, may be a missing piece that scientists have been searching for to fully understand how brain cells communicate under normal and disease conditions. "The results were very surprising," said Ling-Gang Wu, Ph.D., a scientist at NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Epilepsy Source Type: news
Claim that statins damage muscles 'overblown'
In this study, statin users were matched with non-users so their baseline characteristics were similar.
A cohort study is the ideal study design to address this question. However, despite the fact that the researchers tried to ensure there were as few differences as possible between statin users and statin non-users at baseline, it is possible that other factors (confounders) are responsible for the associations seen. A randomised controlled trial would be required to show a cause and effect relationship.
Links To The Headlines Statins could lead to muscular injuries, scientists warn. The Daily Telegraph, June 4 2013
Sta...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medication Older people Source Type: news
Drugs to be offered to women at high risk of breast cancer
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has today released updated guidelines on the care of women who are at increased risk of breast cancer due to their family history. One of the main changes to the original guidance from 2004 is that NICE now recommends drug treatment with tamoxifen or raloxifene to reduce risk of breast cancer in a specific group of women who are at high risk of breast cancer and have not had the disease.
They say that these treatments could help prevent breast cancer in about 488,000 women aged 35 years and older.
The updated guideline has also made changes to the recommende...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Medical practice QA articles Source Type: news
Quickly clearing away damaged proteins may help prevent neurodegenerative disorders
Recycling is not only good for the environment, it's good for the brain. A study using rat cells indicates that quickly clearing out defective proteins in the brain may prevent loss of brain cells. Results of a study in Nature Chemical Biology suggest that the speed at which damaged proteins are cleared from neurons may affect cell survival and may explain why some cells are targeted for death in neurodegenerative disorders. The research was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Huntingtons Disease Source Type: news
Study suggests role for adenosine in molecular processes involved in epilepsy
Silk has walked straight off the runway and into the lab. According to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, silk implants placed in the brain of laboratory animals and designed to release a specific chemical, adenosine, may help stop the progression of epilepsy. The research was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), which are part of the National Institutes of Health...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Epilepsy Source Type: news
Closing in on risk factors for cerebral palsy and infant death
Karin B. Nelson, M.D., scientist emeritus at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, and her colleagues from the University of Sydney, the University of Western Australia and Sydney Adventist Hospital in Australia examined the degree to which four specific risk factors contributed to cerebral palsy and young infant death...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news
Scientists film early concussion damage and describe brain's response to injury
There is more than meets the eye following even a mild traumatic brain injury. While the brain may appear to be intact, new findings reported in Nature suggest that the brain's protective coverings may feel the brunt of the impact.Using a newly developed mouse trauma model, senior author Dorian McGavern, Ph.D., scientist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, watched specific cells mount an immune response to the injury and try to prevent more widespread damage.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Delving Into Brain Injuries With the N.F.L.’s Money
The National Institutes of Health has decided part of a grant from the N.F.L. to study brain injuries will go to two groups studying chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., in living patients.
Source: NYT Health - December 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By KEN BELSON Tags: National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Koroshetz, Walter J National Football League Concussions Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Source Type: news
Personalizing "lower is better" for blood pressure treatment
Many men with high blood pressure were surprised—and a little confused—when a panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health recommended a change in the treatment goal for people over age 60. Instead of taking medications to lower pressures to 140/90, they can now settle for a target of 150/90. Several factors come into play when deciding on the best blood pressure target, reports the May 2014 Harvard Men's Health Watch.
The ideal blood pressure is under 120/80. As it rises above that threshold, the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other health problems follows. Above 140/90, doctors generall...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - April 29, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Well: 3 Things to Know About Niacin and Heart Health
New studies are adding to concerns about the safety and effectiveness of niacin, a popular drug for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Source: NYT Health - July 17, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By HARLAN M. KRUMHOLZ, M.D. Tags: Niacin National Institutes of Health Heart Cholesterol Body Stroke Krumholz, Harlan M medicine and health New England Journal of Medicine Statins (Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs) Featured Source Type: news
