A high school track star discovers he has a rare brain condition, and the best treatment is a brain operation with significant risks. He undergoes surgery and intense physical therapy and is now back running and winning races.
A Cleveland Clinic study of hundreds of people older than 70 with a specific heart condition called aortic stenosis, shows taking calcium supplements may significantly increase the risk of death.
Medications are the first-line treatments for epilepsy but if they don’t work doctors can try laser therapy. It’s minimally invasive and has a shorter recovery than traditional brain surgery. Laser therapy isn’t as effective as brain surgery but it’s an option that could work and is a lot easier on the body.
There are far more people who need organ transplants than organs available. But living donors can donate many different organs or parts of organs to help alleviate the shortage. Recent studies show there may be a psychological benefit to being a living donor.
Thousands of eye injuries result from playing sports activities, especially boxing, tennis, and basketball. But simply wearing eye protection can reduce the risk and severity of those injuries.
Health disparities — long-term inequities in access to medical care and treatments — contribute to higher death and disease rates in Black people and other minorities.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has many of the same risk factors as heart attacks and strokes but it’s a much more “silent” condition. It can cause debilitating scarring of the liver without any symptoms.
Researchers are trying to find ways to help the people who continue to have debilitating symptoms long after a bout of COVID-19. Vaccination can reduce the risk of long COVID, but it’s not foolproof.
Word games and tough puzzles can help keep the brain strong because of the way the brain works to solve them. Research shows the brain builds new neural pathways to help find the answers to the puzzles.
