Cardiology

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Shingles Vaccine Slashes Heart Risk by Nearly Half Health

Shingles Vaccine Slashes Heart Risk by Nearly Half

A landmark study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults with heart disease found that shingles vaccination reduced major cardiac events by 46% and all-cause mo...

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How Shingles Damages the Heart—and How to Stop It Health

How Shingles Damages the Heart—and How to Stop It

Shingles isn't just a painful rash. The varicella-zoster virus can invade blood vessels, trigger inflammation, and raise the risk of heart attack and...

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What Is ECMO and How Does It Keep People Alive? Health

What Is ECMO and How Does It Keep People Alive?

ECMO — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — is a life-support machine that does the work of the heart and lungs outside the body. Here is how it work...

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What Are Ultra-Processed Foods—and Why Avoid Them? Health

What Are Ultra-Processed Foods—and Why Avoid Them?

Ultra-processed foods now make up nearly 60% of calories in the average American diet. A growing body of research links them to heart disease, diabete...

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What Is Prediabetes and Why Reversing It Matters Health

What Is Prediabetes and Why Reversing It Matters

More than 630 million adults worldwide have prediabetes — and most don't know it. Here's what the condition is, how it develops, and why new research...

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Omega-3s and Dialysis: 43% Reduction in Cardiovascular Events Health

Omega-3s and Dialysis: 43% Reduction in Cardiovascular Events

A large randomized clinical trial, the PISCES study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrates that four grams of fish oil per da...

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What Is Sleep Apnea and How Is It Treated? Health

What Is Sleep Apnea and How Is It Treated?

Sleep apnea causes breathing to repeatedly stop during sleep, raising the risk of heart disease, stroke, and cognitive decline. Here is how it works a...

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Weight-Loss Injections: Public Health Insurance Refuses Coverage — Parliament Divided Health

Weight-Loss Injections: Public Health Insurance Refuses Coverage — Parliament Divided

Ozempic and Wegovy are hailed as breakthroughs against obesity and heart disease, but millions of publicly insured individuals in Germany remain witho...

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GLP-1 Drugs May Shield the Heart After a Heart Attack

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy can restore blood flow in the heart's tiny vessels aft...

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What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Damages Vision Health

What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Damages Vision

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults worldwide. Here is how high blood sugar silently destroys the eye's light...

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GLP-1 Drugs Protect Hearts; Aspirin Fails Cancer Test Health

GLP-1 Drugs Protect Hearts; Aspirin Fails Cancer Test

Two landmark findings are reshaping clinical medicine: GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy show powerful cardioprotection after heart attacks, while a...

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