THURSDAY, Aug. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Middle-aged folks who don’t exercise are putting themselves at risk of life-threatening complex heartbeat irregularities, a new study says. Adults 40 to 65 with low fitness levels had a 52% increased risk for irregular heartbeat disorders, also known as arrhythmias, according to findingsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound don’t just enable people to drop pounds — they also are helping save the planet, a new study says. These drugs translate into decreased greenhouse gas emissions when used to help heart failure patients lose weight,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Enjoy a pint of beer, a glass of wine or a dram of whiskey? Then make sure you have some healthy eats and a good dose of exercise on the side, a new study says. A healthy diet and regular physical activity canContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Eli Lilly says its new once-daily pill, orforglipron, helped people lose significant weight and lower blood sugar in a late-stage clinical trial. The company plans to seek global regulatory approval later this year. The study included people with overweight, obesity and type 2Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop airing its “Tips From Former Smokers” ads at the end of September, ending a 13-year campaign that helped millions of Americans quit smoking. Launched in 2012, the campaign featured real people sharingContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Struggling to cope with today’s catastrophe-filled world? Changing your mindset can help protect you from the stress caused by disease outbreaks, wildfires, earthquakes, political uproars and traumatic life events, researchers say. People given a one-hour class in shifting their mindset — to seeContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It is vital that people with heart disease get vaccinated against common infectious diseases like COVID-19, influenza and RSV, a new clinical guideline says. Vaccination can protect the heart health of people who’ve been diagnosed with heart disease, says the new guidance fromContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Recruiting more women to clinical trials for heart devices can improve care for all cardiac patients, a new study argues. A trial investigating the effectiveness of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) wound up revealing vital information because researchers made sure nearly half the studyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Children living in poor neighborhoods are up to 20 times more likely to be hospitalized for a gunshot wound, a new study says. These hospitalizations most often are the result of unintentional shootings, caused by mishandling or accidental discharge of a firearm, researchersContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Detecting diabetes might soon be as easy as breathing into a device, a new study says. An experimental breath test sorted out type 2 diabetes patients from healthy people, based on their exhalations, researchers report in the September issue of the Chemical EngineeringContinue Reading