1 Do an active cooldown. Nicholas Grieves Spending some time cooling down makes your muscles recovery-ready. A 2018 study on active recovery found that runners who spent time at a 50 percent decrease in activity at the end of their workout (instead of resting completely) were able to go three times longer the second time …
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YES, BOOGERS AND mucus are gross. But, they serve a very useful purpose. The thick, sludgy substance—made up of mostly water, salt, and antibodies—is designed to help capture and clear bacteria and other unwanted microorganisms from your nose and throat, says Brett Comer, M.D., an assistant professor in the division of rhinology, sinus surgery, and …
LOOK UP WEIGHT loss tips, and you’ll notice “walk more” almost always cracks the top 10. And it’s true—walking is a digestible way to exercise more. But how much walking do you really need to do to lose weight? It would be great if there were a set number. Then you could just figure out …
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10’000 Hours//Getty Images WITH THE RAVING success of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs over the past several years, you may have heard about a “more natural” alternative: berberine. Berberine may be new social media influencers, but this compound been a part of Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine practices for hundreds of years, used mainly to …
Results of six recent trials of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for patients with large-core ischemic stroke (LCIS) provide strong evidence for the benefit of this intervention compared with medical management (MM), a new Science Advisory from the American Heart Association (AHA) has concluded. “These trials provide new data to suggest that selected patients with ischemic stroke …
Pills can cure infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), but getting the medication to patients who need treatment can be a challenge. Many patients with HCV use drugs such as methamphetamine or heroin and were exposed to the virus by sharing needles. Lack of housing, difficulty getting to appointments, and mistrust of the healthcare …
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Two separate clinical trials of dementia care programs report negative results in terms of patient neuropsychiatric symptoms and caregiver strain or distress, but the news may not be all bad. Experts are pointing to the COVID-19 pandemic and the choice of primary outcomes as potential reasons for the null results. However, while the overall trial …
TOPLINE: In a randomized trial, recurrence was higher after superficial curettage (SC) plus imiquimod cream than surgical excision (SE) in patients with nodular basal cell carcinoma (nBCC). METHODOLOGY: In this secondary analysis of the SCIN trial, researchers evaluated 145 patients (53.1% men; median age, 68 years) with histologically confirmed primary nBCC 4-20 mm in size, …
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved semaglutide (Ozempic, Novo Nordisk) for reducing the risk for worsening kidney disease and cardiovascular death in adults with both type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. The approval is based on the phase 3b results of the international FLOW kidney outcomes trial, which involved more than 3500 …
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