The Skinny on Fats: Healthy Fats to Know, Plus Two to Avoid
The Skinny on Fats In 1976, U.S. Senator George McGovern raised concerns about the average American’s diet following an uptick in premature deaths. Overconsumption of fat and other recent eating patterns, he argued, More...
Studies Link Metabolic Syndrome with BPH
Recent studies have found a link between metabolic syndrome and BPH, or benign prostatic hyperplasia. Metabolic syndrome is an umbrella term used to describe a cluster of health problems. Someone with high blood More...
Fitness trends for 2016 – It’s high time you stick to your New Year resolutions!
Did you resolve during 2016 New Year that you’ll get more active this year? Well, you would be rather alarmed to know that a staggering 65% of such so-called New Year resolutions turn to the wayside just after More...
Signs and symptoms which prompt you to seek help of HRT – Effect on cholesterol
Hormone replacement therapy is given to those women whose progesterone and estrogen levels drop considerably after menopause. Both estrogen and progesterone are hormones and this therapy tops up the levels of the More...
Heart Disease Vaccine Shows Promise In Animal Studies
The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI) outside of San Diego, CA recently announced promising results for a vaccine to treat and prevent heart disease. The shot can be given before the onset of More...
Orphan drug, Juxtapid gets FDA approval for treating HoFH
The US Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of Juxtapid (lomitapide), a new orphan drug used to reduce cholesterol in patients with the rare disorder, homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), More...
