THURSDAY, June 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — You don’t consider yourself a lonely person generally, but sometimes have days where feelings of loneliness set in. If you’re one of those people, even that transient loss of connection with others could be impacting your physical health, a new study finds. “AContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new form of psychotherapy appears to work even better at treating chronic pain in older adults than gold-standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a new study finds. U.S. veterans who received emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET) experienced a longer and more significantContinue Reading
THURSDAY, June 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who deliver low-birth-weight babies could be more likely to have memory and thinking problems later in life, a new study warns. As seniors, these women had brain test scores that indicated one to two years of additional aging in their memory andContinue Reading
THURSDAY, June 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Bipolar disorder doesn’t have to be a lifelong challenge, a new study says. Nearly 1 in 4 people with bipolar disorder wind up achieving complete mental health, researchers found. Further, more than 2 in 5 become free from bipolar symptoms over time, resultsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — After helping America through one of its worst tragedies, some responders to the events of 9/11 may now face another foe: Heightened risks for dementia. A new study looks at the health of thousands of firemen, construction workers and others who worked atContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Growing public fascination with “magic” psilocybin mushrooms as a trendy treatment for depression had led to increased interest in another type of psychedelic mushroom, a new study reports. Unfortunately, this second sort of shroom — known as Amanita muscaria — can be moreContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Depression and memory declines may be closely linked in older people, new research suggests. “Our study shows that the relationship between depression and poor memory cuts both ways, with depressive symptoms preceding memory decline and memory decline linked to subsequent depressive symptoms,” saidContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously on Monday to recommend that the benefits of a new drug for Alzheimer’s outweigh its harms, which can include brain swelling and bleeding. Eli Lilly’s donanemab did slow declines in thinking skills inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many Louisiana residents are being exposed to a cancer-causing toxic gas that’s used in industrial settings, researchers report. A cutting-edge mobile air-testing lab found dangerous levels of ethylene oxide along large stretches of Louisiana, sometimes at levels a thousand times higher than whatContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Winston Churchill once said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” It’s one of countless platitudes claiming that failure leads to success. But there’s strong evidence that such a notion is wrongheaded and can lead to terrible real-worldContinue Reading