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ANCHOR LEAD: HOW OLD IS YOUR HEART? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Heart age is a new method of calculating your risk of a cardiovascular event, just reported in the British Medical Journal. Michael Blaha, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins, says this …
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ANCHOR LEAD: CAN INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGISTS HELP STEM THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Interventional radiologists use cutting edge imaging to help them reach many areas inside the body to do procedures. One such procedure that has proven very promising in …
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ANCHOR LEAD: CAN MORE CALORIES EXTEND LIFE IN PEOPLE WITH ALS? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Higher calorie diets may help people with advanced ALS, or Lou Gerhig’s disease, live longer, a recent study in the Lancet found. Jeffrey Rothstein, an ALS …
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ANCHOR LEAD: CAN A NEW BLOOD TEST DISCERN YOUR RISK FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS A constellation of ten chemicals found in your blood can predict with about 90% accuracy your risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, a recent study purports. …
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Electronic cigarette manufacturers would have us all believe such devices aid smokers to quit, but a recent study provides abundant evidence that among American youth the converse is actually true. Michael Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of …
