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Insomnia is common in later life, and the sleeping pills long used against it carry real risks at that age. A newer class of drugs works by a different route, and its effect has now been counted in minutes. Adults… Read More →
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Exercise Before Major Surgery Cut Complications Afterward
What does it buy a patient to get fitter before an operation? Researchers pooled 186 randomized trials of prehabilitation, covering 15,684 surgical patients, to find out. Patients put on an exercise program in the weeks before major surgery had about… Read More →
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Online Insomnia Therapy Outperformed Sleep Education in Older Adults
A self-guided online program teaching cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia left 40 to 51% of older adults free of clinically significant insomnia a full year later. Among those given online sleep education instead, 16% were. The trial enrolled 311 adults… Read More →
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Adding Mental Drills to Tai Chi Boosted Thinking Scores in Older Adults With Memory Concerns
Does loading a mental task onto exercise buy anything the exercise alone would not? Older adults with mild memory problems spent six months practicing a form of tai chi with mental challenges woven into the movements. They finished nearly 3… Read More →
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Slightly Fewer Falls Among Older Adults Who Did Exercise Programs
Balance classes are a fixture at senior centers. The trials behind them show a real but modest return. A review for the US Preventive Services Task Force, published in JAMA, pooled 37 randomized trials covering 16,117 adults 65 and older.… Read More →
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Semaglutide Eased Knee Osteoarthritis Pain More Than Placebo
Weekly injections of the weight-loss drug semaglutide took an average of 41.7 points off knee pain on a 100-point scale over 68 weeks. Placebo managed 27.5 points. The trial randomized 407 adults who had obesity and moderate knee osteoarthritis, the… Read More →
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Irregular Sleep Tracked With More Heart Events, Even When Sleep Was Long Enough
Sleeping the recommended number of hours did not cancel out the risk that came with a shifting schedule. Among 72,269 UK adults aged 40 to 79, those whose bedtimes and wake times moved most from day to day carried a… Read More →
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A Structured Exercise Program Beat Health Booklets for Survival After Colon Cancer
Cancer survivors who stay active tend to fare better, but does the activity do it, or were they healthier to begin with? A randomized trial of 889 colon cancer patients settled the question by handing out the exercise. Those placed… Read More →
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Heart Disease More Common in Men Facing Both Job Strain and Low Reward at Work
Picture months of pushing hard on a project while decisions get made over your head and the credit lands somewhere else. Men living with both halves of that, heavy demands paired with little control plus effort that goes unrewarded, were… Read More →