Analysis shows significant benefits with no major side-effects for mother or baby but more trials needed ‘to confirm results’

, especially for Black adults

With this year’s Thanksgiving the third since the onset of the pandemic, there are now many tools to help manage Covid-19 risk, including safe and widely available vaccines. But this coronavirus still presents a danger, especially to older people and those with chronic medical conditions. There are also other viruses circulating across the United States, including influenza and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) that are causing some pediatric hospitals to be overwhelmed.

Six popular supplements with a reputation for improving heart health actually fail to effectively lower LDL or “bad” cholesterol, a new study reveals. Researchers with the American Heart Association found that dietary supplements like fish oil, cinnamon, and garlic perform as poorly as a placebo and can’t match the cholesterol-lowering power of statins.

Young adults who have just one drink a day could raise their risk of a stroke by a fifth, experts have warned.

Heart pounding, I sit bolt upright in bed, flushed, sweaty and utterly panicked. My brain has snatched me from a nightmare — a dream so alarming I wake up.

If you feel like you're a mosquito magnet, you're probably not imagining it.

A new study finds that some people really are “mosquito magnets” and it probably has to do with the way they smell.

Lymphatic Health Is All the Rage

Exercise can improve your cognitive and mental health — but not all forms and intensities of exercise affect the brain equally. The effects of exercise are much more nuanced, as specific intensities of exercise over a long period of time are associated with different aspects of memory and mental health, according to a new Dartmouth study.

The long-term, lingering effects of COVID-19 are as well-documented as they are mysterious. Doctors and scientists are still working to fully grasp how SARS-CoV-2 impacts the body and the mind. Now, researchers from Case Western Reserve University report that older adults who contract COVID may be anywhere from 50 to 80 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer’s within a year.

Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.

At first, Dana Guthrie thought she could help care for her parents, whose health had begun to decline, and still hold onto her job administering a busy dental practice in Plant City, Fla.