Drowning In Chaos? A New Mindset Can Protect Against Depression, Stress

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 see growth opportunities amids...

Heart Patients Urged To Seek Vaccination For Common Infectious Diseases

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 from the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

“Va...

More Women In Study Reveals Heart Risk For Men

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 study participants were female, researchers reporte...

Child Gun Wounds More Common In Poor Neighborhoods

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, researchers added.

“Our study shows that where you and your famil...

Breath Test For Diabetes Under Development

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 Engineering Journal.

“This sensor only requires that you exhal...

Talk Therapy Alters Brain Structure, MRI Scans Show

Talk therapy has the power to alter a person’s physical brain structure, a new study shows.

Psychotherapy caused measurable changes in the brains of people with severe depression, MRI scans revealed.

Specifically, most patients experienced growth in brain regions responsible for processing emotions, researchers reported Aug. 26...