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08/15/2025

From sharper memory to better focus and lower dementia risk, science shows that eating blueberries regularly may help keep your brain healthy as you age.

What makes blueberries such a superfood for brain health? We break down the health benefits of blueberries for older adults and how to use this food as medicine at any age.

08/15/2025

Adopting a combination of key lifestyle habits — including exercise, a healthy diet and intellectual and social stimulation — improved thinking and memory skills in adults in their 60s and 70s who were at increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia, according to results from a large study.

Benefits were seen in study participants who exercised, followed a healthy diet, engaged in cognitive training, socialized more and had their heart health monitored

08/14/2025

In our first 5 to 7 years of childhood, we form key, lifelong narratives that tell us who we are, what to expect from others, and how the world generally works.

Here's how to recognize when these narratives are unhealthy or even dangerous.

5. "Feelings are scary. I don't want to have them."

08/14/2025

Vitamin C it supports your immune system and helps your body use the iron you get from food.

Find out sources for your daily dose of this essential nutrient.

You might think of oranges first when you want to get more vitamin C. But many other foods have it, too. Find out other sources for your daily dose of this essential nutrient.

08/14/2025

Older adults who took medications for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes had slower rates of cognitive decline over a nine-year period than others, according to an observational study of 4,651 older adults.

Questions remain about whether the drugs offer benefit or if other factors are involved

08/13/2025

This year, people are seeking emergency care for tick bites in the highest level since 2017, according to data from the CDC, and reported cases of Lyme disease have continued to rise through the years.

Experts say the increases are driven by warmer temperatures due to climate change and the expanding presence of ticks in more areas in the US and Canada — including places where people are less familiar with the risks and how to prevent disease.

This year, people are seeking emergency care for tick bites in the highest level since 2017, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and reported cases of Lyme disease have continued to rise through the years.

08/13/2025

Muscle mass and strength naturally decline with age, but there are things you can do (and eat!) to protect and maintain them.

These 8 foods can help older adults prevent muscle loss, or sarcopenia. Browse sources of protein, vitamin D and beta-carotene

08/13/2025

The Gates Foundation will spend $2.5 billion by 2030 on women’s health, it said last week, with founder Bill Gates saying the area -- including conditions from preeclampsia to menopause -- had been neglected for too long.

The Gates Foundation will spend $2.5 billion by 2030 on women’s health, it said on Monday, with founder Bill Gates saying the area, including conditions from preeclampsia to menopause, had been neglected for too long.

08/12/2025

Alzheimer’s disease risk may start at the brain’s border, not inside it.

Your brain has its own elite defense team — and new research shows these "guardian" cells might be the real battleground for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and stroke.

Your brain has its own elite defense team — and new research shows these "guardian" cells might be the real battleground for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and stroke. Scientists discovered that most genetic risks linked to these diseases act not in neurons, but in the blood ve...

08/12/2025

The humble modern-day potato, first domesticated about 10,000 years ago, got its start in the Andes mountains before becoming a key crop the world depends on -- but because plants don’t preserve well in the fossil record, its lineage has remained largely a mystery.

Now, a team of evolutionary biologists and genomic scientists has traced the origins of this starchy staple to a chance encounter millions of years ago involving an unlikely plant relative: the tomato.

A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, according to new research.

08/12/2025

If you’ve ever spent much time looking into blood types, you were probably led to believe there are eight of them: A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, AB-, O+ and O-. But are rare blood types that go beyond these best-known ones.

Golden blood is the rarest kind of blood known in the world -- it’s also called Rh null blood, and about 43 people have ever been reported to have it.

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08/11/2025

People in the United Kingdom lost twice as much weight eating meals typically made at home than they did when eating store-bought ultraprocessed food considered healthy, the latest research has found.

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