Chronic stress is more than a mental health problem: How it can raise blood pressure and put your kidneys at risk
Managing stress does not mean eliminating every difficult situation. The practical goal is to reduce the body’s repeated…
Plant-based diets reshape gut microbes to boost healthy metabolites
Plant-based diets are good for you. They promote gut, immune, metabolic and cardiovascular health, in part by cultivating…
Taiwan Biobank data reveals ongoing natural selection in living humans
For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including…
Study examines the link between blood type and cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis patients
Do you know your blood type? It is important information that is used for blood transfusions, but few…
Diet helps people lose weight regardless of genetic obesity risk
A six-month clinical trial found that people with a high genetic risk for obesity benefited just as much…
Sleeping longer may signal early Alzheimer’s-related brain changes
Regularly sleeping long hours each night is associated with higher levels of an Alzheimer’s-related protein in the blood,…
Trial offers hope for babies with fetal kidney failure
Women diagnosed early in pregnancy with a fetus lacking adequate kidney function to make the urine that serves…
Nearly 1 million bottles of heart and kidney medication recalled over foreign substance found on tablets
Nearly one million bottles of heart and kidney medication have been recalled nationwide over the possibility of a “foreign substance,”…
Hearing aids may lower dementia risk in adults with epilepsy and hearing loss
Adults with both epilepsy and hearing loss who use hearing aids may have a 23% lower risk of…
American Heart Association launches platform for earlier heart failure risk identification
Nearly 7 million people in the United States are living with heart failure, and that number is expected to…
Diabetes raises mortality risk after solid-organ transplantation
People with an organ transplant who develop or have existing diabetes are more likely to die than those without diabetes, according to a…
Interspecies blastocyst complementation generates generates rat-derived kidneys in mice
Kidney transplantation remains the most effective treatment for end-stage kidney disease, yet a severe shortage of donor organs…