How Healthy Is Your Brain?
For most people over age 40, glitches in memory are high on their lists of health concerns. Whether it's lost keys, forgotten names or other "senior moments," we fear each is a sign of a deteriorating brain. What...
Ailments
76 postsDiscover breakthrough ailment secrets, natural cures, and more!
FDA Approves New Impotence Drug Stendra
In April 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Stendra, a new medication for erectile dysfunction. An estimated 30 million American...
Video Gaming That's Good for Your Health
Recovering stroke patients whose physical therapy regimen is built around Wii video games appear to improve better than patients treated with standard...
New Software Helps Patients Pick The Best Stent
What's a heart patient to do? There seems to be no easy answer to the question of whether it'...
How Kidney Disease Can Hurt Your Blood Vessels
When Richard", a 66-year-old retired engineer from New Jersey, was recently screened for kidney disease, he assumed that he was in...
Little-Known Cause Of Stroke, High Blood Pressure and Aneurysm
Most people have never heard of the blood vessel disorder known as fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), but doctors now recognize that it can...
The Blood Pressure Problem Even Great Doctors Don't Detect
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is easy to detect. A cuff around your upper arm measures the pressure of the blood against...
Happy Marriage Reduces Stroke Risk for Men
Single or unhappily married men seem to run a greater risk of dying from a stroke than those in good marriages, a...
Attention Men: Great Way to Reduce Stroke Risk More than 60%
Moderate-to-high-intensity exercise such as jogging, swimming or tennis may help reduce stroke risk in older men but not in women, researchers report....
Type of Migraine Can Double Your Stroke Risk
For people who suffer migraine headaches with aura-visual disturbances before or during the migraine-the risk for ischemic stroke is doubled, according to...
Hidden Stroke Risks Very Few Know
Many risk factors for stroke are well-known. For example, high blood pressure (hypertension), elevated cholesterol, diabetes, inactivity, smoking, a prior stroke or...
New Stroke Research Shakes Up Medical Establishment
Challenging established medical wisdom about blood pressure and stroke, new British research suggests that extremely variable blood pressure, and not just high...