Worried About Memory Loss? Cut Your Blood Pressure

Aggressively lowering high blood pressure to a goal of 120/80—the definition of normal—may trim the risk of developing the kind of thinking and memory changes that lead to dementia by about 15%, compared with people with higher blood pressures, according to new research presented...

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This SoulCycle Instructor Talks About His Two Near-Death Experiences—and How They Changed His Life

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You Have 11 Seconds to Tell Your Doc What's Wrong

Doctors interrupted patients who were telling them what’s wrong after only 11 seconds and were able to find out the patient's primary reason for the visit only about one-third of the time in a new study conducted by a researcher at the University of Florida. from WebMD Health...

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Treating Depression May StopRepeat Heart Attack

The benefit was most clear when it came to the risk of suffering another heart attack: less than 9 percent of antidepressant patients did, compared with over 15 percent of placebo patients, the findings showed. from WebMD Health https://ift.tt/2JSYl...

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Could Suicide Rise Along With Global Temperatures?

The researchers concluded that temperature increases could lead to a 1.4 percent increase in suicides in the United States and a 2.3 percent increase in Mexico by 2050. That would add up to  an additional 21,000 suicides in the two countries. from WebMD Health https...

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