Eating flavonols: Antioxidants found in veggies, tea, and wine may help slow down memory loss and cognitive decline

Eating flavonols: Antioxidants found in veggies, tea, and wine may help slow down memory loss and cognitive decline

Sandee LaMotte | CNN | 
Eating more flavonols, antioxidants found in many vegetables, fruits, tea and wine, may slow your rate of memory loss, a ...
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‘SuperAgers’: Here’s what elderly people into their 80s with superior memories have in common

Sandee LaMotte | CNN | 
To be a SuperAger, a term coined by the Northwestern researchers, a person must be over 80 and undergo extensive ...
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Meditation or medication? Mindfulness course as effective at reducing anxiety as drugs, study shows

Zoe Sottile | CNN | 
A mindfulness meditation course may be as effective at reducing anxiety as a common medication, according to a new study ...
1 in 10 Americans over 65 have Alzheimer’s — and this number is even higher in Black Americans

1 in 10 Americans over 65 have Alzheimer’s — and this number is even higher in Black Americans

Sandee LaMotte | CNN | 
One in 10 Americans over 65 had dementia, while 22% experienced mild cognitive impairment, the earliest stage of the slow ...
‘Fuel of the future’: South Africa factory uses renewable energy to create ‘green’ ammonia

‘Fuel of the future’: South Africa factory uses renewable energy to create ‘green’ ammonia

Jacopo Prisco | CNN | 
Ammonia is also used to manufacture explosives for the mining industry and is a key ingredient in many pharmaceutical and ...
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IVF-born Black babies are four times more likely to die than White babies. Why?

Jacqueline Howard | CNN | 
It has been well-known in research that Black babies are about twice as likely to die as White babies before ...
Hair-straightening products connected to uterine cancer, especially in Black women

Hair-straightening products connected to uterine cancer, especially in Black women

Jacqueline Howard | CNN | 
Scientists are uncovering new details in the connection between using certain hair straightening products, such as chemical relaxers and pressing ...
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‘Olfactory training’: 5% of COVID survivors have long-lasting smell and taste problems. Here’s what can help recover their senses

Sandee LaMotte | CNN | 
Without smell, you may not recognize the telltale signs of fires, natural gas leaks, poisonous chemicals or spoiled food and ...
DNA solves medieval death mystery: 17 Ashkenazi Jewish people found in well after anti-Semitic crusade

DNA solves medieval death mystery: 17 Ashkenazi Jewish people found in well after anti-Semitic crusade

Katie Hunt | CNN | 
The identity of the remains of the six adults and 11 children and why they ended up in the medieval ...
Vaccinated or already had COVID? You aren’t protected from the latest variants, but symptoms are likely to be mild

Vaccinated or already had COVID? You aren’t protected from the latest variants, but symptoms are likely to be mild

Jaqueline Howard | CNN | 
Levels of neutralizing antibodies that a previous COVID infection or vaccinations elicit are several times lower against the BA.4 and ...
How family issues, discrimination, and other social stressors age our immune systems and impact health

How family issues, discrimination, and other social stressors age our immune systems and impact health

Sandee LaMotte | CNN | 
Social stress such as discrimination and family problems, along with job and money problems, can contribute to premature aging of ...
Could cultivated, lab-grown meat put a dent in global warming?

Could cultivated, lab-grown meat put a dent in global warming?

Kristen Rogers | CNN | 
What if there was a way to eat meat without farming and killing billions of animals per year, contributing to the climate ...
Is Singapore’s mosquito-borne dengue emergency a harbinger of climate change disruptions ahead?

Is Singapore’s mosquito-borne dengue emergency a harbinger of climate change disruptions ahead?

Heather Chen | CNN | 
Singapore says it is facing a dengue “emergency” as it grapples with an outbreak of the seasonal disease that has ...
CRISPR gene editing poised to ‘cure’ progeria and other diseases caused by ‘misspelled’ DNA

CRISPR gene editing poised to ‘cure’ progeria and other diseases caused by ‘misspelled’ DNA

Sandee LaMotte | CNN | 
When popular YouTube star Adalia Rose died earlier this year, she looked like a diminutive, sickly woman in her 80s ...
Organic fresh strawberries potentially linked to hepatitis outbreak in US and Canada

Organic fresh strawberries potentially linked to hepatitis outbreak in US and Canada

Naomi Thomas | CNN | 
The US Food and Drug Administration is investigating a potential link between a hepatitis A outbreak and fresh organic strawberries. The FDA ...
There's a ‘magic number’ of hours for optimal sleep in middle age — and disruptions could be connected to dementia

There’s a ‘magic number’ of hours for optimal sleep in middle age — and disruptions could be connected to dementia

Katie Hunt | CNN | 
New research has found that around seven hours of sleep is the ideal night’s rest, with insufficient and excessive sleep ...
COVID infections set off massive inflammation 'storms' in the body

COVID infections set off massive inflammation ‘storms’ in the body

Brenda Goodman | CNN | 
From the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed that in severe cases of Covid-19 – the ones that landed ...
Some people got deliberately sick from COVID for science. Here’s what we learned from them

Some people got deliberately sick from COVID for science. Here’s what we learned from them

Brenda Goodman | CNN | 
It takes just a tiny virus-laden droplet – about the width of a human blood cell – to infect someone ...
Looking to reduce pain? Try a dose of nostalgia

Looking to reduce pain? Try a dose of nostalgia

Lauren Kent | CNN | 
The next time you feel aches or soreness, you might consider skipping the pain reliever and reaching instead for an ...
Menopause before 40? It could pose an added risk of dementia

Menopause before 40? It could pose an added risk of dementia

Sandee LaMotte | CNN | 
Entering menopause before age 40 is linked to a 35% higher risk of developing dementia later in life, a preliminary ...
Man who received genetically modified pig heart in first-ever surgery dies

Man who received genetically modified pig heart in first-ever surgery dies

Carma Hassan, Katherine Dillinger | CNN | 
A 57-year-old Maryland man who had received a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery has died, the ...
Women who experienced both sexual assault and workplace harassment have 21% increased risk of hypertension, study finds

Women who experienced both sexual assault and workplace harassment have 21% increased risk of hypertension, study finds

Sandee LaMotte | CNN | 
Women who experience sexual violence, workplace sexual harassment or both have a higher long-term risk of developing high blood pressure ...
Caste discrimination: What is it — and why are universities moving to ban it?

Caste discrimination: What is it — and why are universities moving to ban it?

Harmeet Kaur | CNN | 
On paper, the change was subtle ― the word "caste" appearing in parentheses after the term "race and ethnicity." But ...
‘For people who continue to hesitate or to choose not to get vaccinated, they are losing privileges’: Quebec to enforce ‘unvaxxed tax’

‘For people who continue to hesitate or to choose not to get vaccinated, they are losing privileges’: Quebec to enforce ‘unvaxxed tax’

Paula Newton | CNN | 
One day after the Canadian province of Quebec announced it would financially penalize residents who are unvaccinated, the province's health ...
Medical abortion: What does it mean — and why is the US relaxing regulations on it?

Medical abortion: What does it mean — and why is the US relaxing regulations on it?

Jen Christensen | CNN | 
The US Food and Drug Administration relaxed certain federal regulations [December 16] on medication abortion, a two-medication process that has ...
This virus expert accurately predicted 800,000 Americans would die of COVID. What does he think the future holds?

This virus expert accurately predicted 800,000 Americans would die of COVID. What does he think the future holds?

Michael Osterholm, Peter Bergen | CNN | 
Michael Osterholm is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and author ...
Paxlovid vs. Molnupiravir: Comparing the two breakthrough COVID antiviral pills

Paxlovid vs. Molnupiravir: Comparing the two breakthrough COVID antiviral pills

CNN | 
While Merck was the first to roll out its anti-Covid therapy, called molnupiravir, Pfizer has announced promising results of its ...
Inexpensive SSRI antidepressant fluvoxamine could reduce severe COVID

Inexpensive SSRI antidepressant fluvoxamine could reduce severe COVID

Maggie Fox | CNN | 
A cheap, generically available anti-depressant may reduce the risk of severe Covid-19 disease by close to a third in people ...
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