The theory that breakfast is the most important meal of the day may not hold true, research suggests. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that those who eat breakfast consume significantly more calories than those who skip the meal – and end up weighing more. For decades, health experts have exhorted people… Read More »
Conditions The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 80,000 people died from the flu last year alone. Here’s what you need to know to stay safe this season. What is the flu? eldar nurkovic/Shutterstock The flu is a contagious respiratory illness that’s caused by influenza viruses, according to the Centers for Disease Control… Read More »
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter SATURDAY, Nov. 10, 2018 (HealthDay News) — The diabetes drug Farxiga might do double-duty for patients, helping to ward off another killer, heart failure, new research shows. Type 2 diabetics who took Farxiga (dapagliflozin) saw their odds of hospitalization for heart failure drop by 27 percent compared to those who… Read More »
For a very long time, we tend to look at hearing loss as a lesser problem compared with losing other faculties, like your sense of sight or speech abilities. People seem to treat it as more of an annoyance rather than an actual loss and that it’s vain to make it look more problematic than… Read More »