(Natural News) It’s no secret that too much sugar is bad for cardiometabolic health. From triggering insulin resistance to increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke, eating a high-sugar diet can pose serious consequences. Recent research published in the journal Nature Communications adds another sugar-related consequence: rapid metabolic shifts. In fruit flies fed a high-sugar diet, […]

(Natural News) Blood pressure medications might reduce the risk of cardiometabolic conditions, but researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) found that healthcare professionals might be doing more harm than good in prescribing more intense medications. Published in JAMA Internal Medicine, their results demonstrated that patients admitted for non-cardiac conditions but had high blood pressure had a greater risk of readmission, […]

(Natural News) A study presented at the American Society for Nutrition annual meeting in Baltimore links death due to stroke and heart disease to inadequate intake of fruits and vegetables. The researchers estimate that one out of seven cardiovascular deaths is due to a low intake of fruit. Meanwhile, one out of 12 is caused by a low intake of vegetables. […]

(Natural News) Stroke survivors may need to intensify training to better regain mobility. A study published in the journal Stroke found that high-intensity step training can significantly improve walking ability than low-intensity step training. The researchers noted that stroke victims may need a more challenging therapy to see better results. They suggest increasing the intensity of walking exercises and adding variable […]

(Natural News) Maintaining a healthy blood pressure is essential for avoiding life-threatening cardiovascular problems like heart attack, stroke and heart disease. While anti-hypertensive medicines are often the go-to treatments for high blood pressure, more and more people are looking for natural remedies to avoid the many side effects of prescription medications, which include lightheadedness, anxiety […]

(Natural News) Superbugs are considered one of the most serious threats to human health in modern times. Attributed to excessive use of antibiotics, superbugs are also rendering antibiotics useless. Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that infects the gut and is the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea worldwide. Findings from a study published in the journal Nature Genetics suggest that C. […]

(Natural News) Neuroscientists can now decode real-time spoken and heard speech signals in the brain into written text. Their groundbreaking research, published in the Nature Communications journal, is the first to demonstrate how a person’s intended speech can be drawn from brain signals and decoded into text before the actual act of speech itself. According […]

(Natural News) Aphasia is a neurological condition caused by damage to areas of the brain that govern speech and comprehension. While aphasia impairs a person’s ability to speak, how it does so varies from person to person. It can also affect how the person understands speech, written sentences, numbers and gestures. Aphasia, however, does not affect […]

(Natural News) Aspirin is one of the most widely used medications in the U.S., both as a prescription drug and as an over-the-counter drug. According to the Drug Facts label on medication products, aspirin can be used to relieve minor complaints, such as headaches, pain, swelling and fever. Aspirin is also prescribed by physicians for other purposes […]

(Natural News) Nearly every medication has side effects, but sometimes people are willing to take them on to get some sort of benefit. And while no one wants to deal with heart disease and its effects on the body, taking popular cholesterol medications could bring on another potentially deadly illness: type 2 diabetes. This is […]