Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels, quitting smoking, managing diabetes: these evidence-backed approaches remain key ways to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (SN: 11/9/15).
But an unexpected contributor to that risk has emerged in the past decade. Nothing can be done to specifically tackle this risk factor yet, but the discovery offers a new angle to understanding cardiovascular disease. And it might partly explain why some people develop the disease even when they don’t check the familiar
A woman with a rare genetic disease that affects 0.03 percent of people in the world has developed a tumor so large it feels like a ‘back pack on your neck’.
Alexandra, 30, from Goppingen, Germany, says the mass – which is benign – is so large it encompasses 20 percent of her body weight and is nearly half her height.
The growth has expanded gradually over the past two decades, beginning in elementary school as a ‘hazelnut-sized’ bump on
Cancer has long been a disease that many people fear most — it has also long been a condition we associate with older age. But something alarming has been happening over the past three decades.
While deaths from cancer continue to decline, younger people — including those who appear healthy and fit — are increasingly getting cancers that used to be the preserve of older age groups.
The diagnosis of the Princess of Wales with cancer at just 42 reflects
It is a scary thought that in 1980, when I went to medical school, only one in every 14 British adults was obese. Now it is close to one in four.
We didn’t see a lot of overweight patients when I was a medical student. These days, the NHS spends millions every year reinforcing beds, building bigger scanners and even designing larger mortuary fridges.
And this is only a fraction of the many billions spent treating and managing diseases caused
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When David McCallion was told that the swelling in his breasts was harmless and a cosmetic problem, he felt reassured.
Five years later, however, the 59-year-old discovered he was one of a tiny fraction of British men who are diagnosed with a disease that typically strikes women — breast cancer.
The cancer has now spread to other parts of the father-of-two’s body, meaning the disease has entered its secondary stages.
But in contrast to the support given to women battling
As she poses jubilantly for a photograph at Everest Base Camp, Corinne Turnbull, 51, looks the picture of fitness.
Conquering the world’s highest mountain is a challenge few of us would contemplate. But in Corinne’s case, that smile of triumph was especially hard-won – as just over a decade earlier, shortly before her 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
I recently wrote in this newspaper about my own shock at discovering I had the condition, which
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., yet experts agree the condition is often misdiagnosed in women.
For American Heart Month, doctors and patients are speaking out to help ensure that women’s symptoms get life-saving attention and treatment.
Dr. Philip Adamson, chief medical officer of Abbott’s Heart Failure Division, said women are often diagnosed with anxiety or depression when they are short of breath or experience fatigue — when the true culprit is heart failure.
Under extremely rare circumstances, it appears that Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted between people. Five people who received contaminated injections of a growth hormone as children went on to develop Alzheimer’s unusually early, researchers report January 29 in Nature Medicine.
The findings represent “the first time iatrogenic Alzheimer’s disease has been described,” neurologist John Collinge said January 25 in a news briefing, referring to a disease caused by a medical procedure.
That sounds alarming, but researchers are quick to
Sitting next to someone with a hacking cough on a crowded plane or train, hearing the friend you had a drink with last night has since tested positive for Covid, or your child’s schoolfriend has thrown up in the classroom, most of us fear the worst and wonder if, or simply just when, we’ll come down with the same lurgy.
With the winter flu and vomiting bug seasons well underway, Covid infections still circling — and now news of measles
