How Exercise Boosts Your Body’s Ability to Prevent Cancer

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 5 (ONLINE): Forty-five minutes of intense exercise three times a week may reduce cancer risk in patients with Lynch syndrome, a genetic condition that can lead to cancer at a young age. That amount of exercise made the immune system more able to […]

Study: Fitness Matters More Than Weight Loss for Kidney Disease Risk

ISLAMABAD, OCT 04 (ONLINE): Higher physical fitness and maintaining body weight lowered the risk of chronic kidney disease in adults with obesity, according to a study published Thursday in Obesity. But losing weight did not lower that risk. “We need to know more about the […]

Can creatine supplements help people with long COVID?

ISLAMABAD, Sep 28 (Online): Among the often-mystifying, extended effects of COVID-19 is post-viral fatigue syndrome, or (PVFS). A small new study finds that dietary creatine may help alleviate its symptoms. The study found that taking dietary creatine for three months substantially improved feelings of fatigue, […]

Caring for Adult Children with Mental Illness: How to Help

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 28 (ONLINE): – George Kaufmann, an 81-year-old retiree from California, has been dealing with his son’s mental illness for close to 30 years. His son, Patrick, 48, had his first psychotic episode at 19, Kaufmann said. He’d previously dealt with depression, suicidal ideation […]

Robots Are Taking Over Your Surgery (and You Should Be Excited)

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 27 (ONLINE): On her flight to Atlanta, Robin Pollack nibbled gummy bears and sipped a cranberry juice cocktail. It had been a week since she’d gotten robotic surgery to remove a cancerous stomach tumor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and she […]

Pneumonia, Not Just Inflammation, May Cause Severe COVID

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 26 (ONLINE): As we continue to live with COVID-19, patients and doctors will learn more about the reasons infections can range from asymptomatic to very serious. Many researchers and doctors believe inflammation is the cause of severe COVID. This is due to the […]