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CATEGORY: WOMEN'S HEALTH A once-daily pill that contains no hormones cut moderate to severe hot flashes by about three more episodes a day than placebo within 12 weeks, in two randomized trials of 796 menopausal women who started out averaging… Read More →
CATEGORY: BRAIN & MENTAL HEALTH A structured two-year program of exercise, brain-healthy eating, brain training, and social engagement was linked to greater gains in memory and thinking than self-guided lifestyle change in a randomized trial of 2,111 older adults at… Read More →
CATEGORY: MEN'S HEALTH For men whose prostate cancer comes back aggressively after surgery or radiation, adding the drug enzalutamide to standard hormone therapy was linked to a 40% lower risk of death over eight years in a large randomized trial.… Read More →
CATEGORY: IMMUNE HEALTH Children who ate peanut regularly from infancy until age 5 were 71% less likely to have a peanut allergy at age 12 than children who had avoided peanut in those early years—4.4% versus 15.4%—even though both groups… Read More →
CATEGORY: DISEASE PREVENTION People who had quit smoking 10 or more years earlier lived about as long as never smokers—regaining roughly 10 of the 12 to 13 years of life that continued smoking was linked to losing—in a study of… Read More →
CATEGORY: WOMEN'S HEALTH Women who did regular leisure-time physical activity had a 24% lower risk of dying from any cause than women who were inactive, while regularly active men had a 15% lower risk than inactive men, in a study… Read More →
CATEGORY: HEART & CIRCULATION Adults with high blood pressure and a high risk of heart disease who were treated to a systolic blood pressure target below 120 had 12% fewer major heart and blood-vessel events over 3.4 years than those… Read More →
CATEGORY: BRAIN & MENTAL HEALTH A simple blood test correctly identified whether Alzheimer’s disease was present or absent in about 85% to 91% of people being evaluated for memory problems, in a study of 1,767 patients at clinics in Sweden,… Read More →
CATEGORY: DISEASE PREVENTION An injection given just twice a year was linked to near-total protection against HIV in two large international trials: among 2,134 young women who received it, not a single infection occurred, and among 2,179 men and gender-diverse… Read More →
