Do you love those sugary-sweet beverages, reconstituted meat products and packaged snacks? You may want to reconsider based on a new study that explored whether individuals who consume higher amounts of ultra-processed food have more adverse mental health symptoms. Although ultra-processed foods are convenient, low cost, quick to prepare or ready-to-eat, these industrial formulations of […]

Prosthesis-patient mismatch — when a patient with aortic stenosis is given a valve prosthesis with an effective orifice area that is too small in relation to body size — is associated with higher risk of mortality, even in patients undergoing transcatheter valve replacement, a new meta-analysis suggests. “We found that mismatch in patients undergoing transcatheter […]

When I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act I thought that I was really on the telly or that I’d been kidnapped by a cult.  But when my psychosis first began, it was barely noticeable.  I had the surreal feeling that people weren’t who they said they were, and a niggling suspicion that I […]

High-quality parenting practices in adolescence lay the foundation for close parent-child relationships when the children become young adults, according to new research from Penn State. The study is one of the first to examine how changes in parental involvement, parental warmth, and effective discipline during adolescence predict the quality of the relationships between parents and […]

COVID-19 is a respiratory illness, so it’s not surprising that exposure to poor air quality worsens patient outcomes. But how does air pollution affect people who are vaccinated? To answer that question, a team of researchers analyzed data from more than 50,000 COVID-19 patients across Southern California. By comparing publicly available air quality monitoring data […]

People with high blood pressure levels face a faster erosion of their ability to think, make decisions and remember information than those with normal blood pressure levels, a new study finds. The researchers traced high blood pressure’s association with declining brain function over years, in data from six large studies that they pooled and analyzed. […]

A study led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has revealed the association between rapidly fading antibody levels in some recovered COVID-19 patients and a high plasma concentration of a metabolite called glycylproline (gly-pro) and its producing enzyme. The researchers also found that the application of an inhibiting agent can counteract the activities of gly-pro […]

As outbreaks of flu and other respiratory conditions pop up across the United States, health experts say the nation may be facing an early and severe flu season. “I’m concerned that we will have a very substantial influenza season coming up this year, very different from our two previous seasons,” William Schaffner, MD, an infectious […]

Among men diagnosed with COVID-19, those with low testosterone levels are more likely to become seriously ill and end up in the hospital than men with normal levels of the hormone, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Saint Louis University School of Medicine. The team […]

One of the largest studies to date into the long-term effects of COVID-19—the Long-CISS (COVID In Scotland Study)—found that 1 in 20 people who took part in the research had not recovered from having COVID-19 at their most recent follow up—between six and 18 months following infection with SARS-CoV-2. The CISS study—which is led by […]