Over half of office workers don’t consistently get a good night’s sleep.
The distinction of being among the lowest-paid workers in the United States has long been home health aides. It has now been revealed in a new study that they also get the least amount of sleep.
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Link found between diet soda and cardiovascular disease.
The consumption of diet soft drinks may be associated with Type 2 diabetes and development of the condition known as metabolic syndrome — high blood pressure, abdominal obesity and other risk factors according to some studies. Now a 10-year epidemiological study has found a link between diet soft drinks and cardiovascular disease.
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Dr James Dunbar checks a patient’s heart with the revolutionary vest.
Scientists have developed a new cardiac vest that can diagnose heart attacks as soon as they happen has been developed by scientists, a feat they say could lead to new ways of treating heart patients.
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Alcohol problems not uncommon in surgeons.
According to a new survey, about 15 percent of surgeons have alcohol abuse or dependency problems, a rate that is somewhat higher than the rest of the population.
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If you eat what you like, you decrease cravings.
Researchers have found that a low-calorie meal plan that includes dessert with breakfast may help dieters lose weight.
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Some 2.5 million people worldwide die each year from the harmful use of alcohol.
Up to 210,000 Britons will be killed prematurely by alcohol over the next 20 years, with a third of those preventable deaths due to liver disease alone, health experts warned Monday.
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Motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America.
Birth to unmarried women used to be called illegitimacy, now it is the new normal. The share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold after steadily rising for five decades: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.
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Investment banking may be bad for your health.
On the list of things that could be dangerous to your health: add investment banking.
Risk of heart attack or stroke can jump after high-pollution days.
Short-term exposure to air pollution — just a day or a week in some cases — may kick off a heart attack or stroke, scientists now say.
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A ground-breaking study that may change how heart attacks are treated.
When a person has a heart attack a piece of muscle in a person’s heart dies from lack of blood flow , it scars over and is lost. But a team of researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles has proven that those muscles may not necessarily be gone forever.
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Women more attracted to healthy golden skin than a masculine face.
Men with a healthier skin color are more attractive to women than those with a masculine face, according to new research.
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Skin cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s in mice, is there hope for humans?
A laboratory study indicates that a drug commonly used to fight skin cancer could start to reverse Alzheimer’s disease in a matter of hours. Researchers have described the discovery as an “unprecedented finding” that holds out “the potential promise of a therapy for Alzheimer’s”.