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… part of the plan. Too much sodium can raise your blood pressure. The DASH eating plan is just one part of a heart-healthy lifestyle. Experts recommend combining the plan with physical …

… it keeps a memory of it. A study suggests that people’s immune systems remember COVID-19 for months after recovery. The immune system makes different types of cells and molecules to … Immune cell levels also remained high. Memory B cells, which make antibodies, increased for a few months after infection and then remained stable. Most people had one important type of T cell. About half had another type of T cell that kills infected cells. …

… cancer and heart disease over the two decades. Participants’ arsenic levels dropped by over one-half on average. Their chances of dying from cancer and heart disease also changed. Those …

… cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the U.S. Screening tests can check for signs of breast cancer before symptoms start. If cancer is found early, it increases the … studied 28,000 women, ages 40 to 74. They tested two screening approaches over five years. One-half of the women had the standard mammogram every year. The other half received personalized …

… as seasonal affective disorder. Sunlight also helps our skin make vitamin D, which is needed for normal bone function and health. Yet sunlight can also cause damage. Sunlight travels to … The longest of these UV rays that reach the Earth’s surface are called UVA rays. The shorter ones are called UVB rays. Too much exposure to UVB rays can lead to sunburn. UVA rays can travel … exposed to ultraviolet radiation, there’s a repair process that goes on constantly in each one of your exposed cells,” says Dr. Stephen I. Katz, director of NIH’s National Institute of …

… that didn’t agree with you. Or you had an infection that made you sick to your stomach for a few days. But if pain and other gut symptoms go on for weeks or longer, something more … Many digestive disorders are easiest to treat when they first develop. … Potential Causes … One of the most serious gut disorders is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), although it’s not very …

… way as the human brain,” says Dr. Despina Kontos, an AI researcher at Columbia University. One approach to AI uses a process called machine learning. In machine learning, a computer model … being used daily is medical imaging. Computers help doctors comb through CT and MRI scans for signs of problems like heart disease and cancer. “AI can look at images very closely, in a …

… goals even harder. Eating too much of them may lead to weight gain and increase your risk for certain diseases, like cancer, diabetes, and obesity. … What Are Ultra-Processed Foods? … … processes that you can’t easily do at home. “If you’re standing in the grocery store, in one of the middle aisles, and the thing that you’re holding is in a crinkly package, you’re …

… conditions, like depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A research team looked for ways to predict who will have long-term problems after a brain injury. They examined blood samples for signs of concussions. Such compounds are called biomarkers. The study included almost 200 … damaged brain cells. Researchers compared veterans who never had a brain injury, those who had one or two, and those with three or more. People who had three or more brain injuries were more …

… For decades, researchers have puzzled over why type 1 diabetes is becoming more common. Type 1 … attack the cells that make insulin. To test this idea, researchers used two formulas. One group of infants received a formula made from cow’s milk. The other received a formula made …