What people dread most about a colonoscopy is the preparation (or "prep") you must do beforehand. These tips help take the angst out of the prep and ensure an effective screening.
TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2019 -- Stressful experiences in middle age are associated with greater memory loss among women later in life, but this link is not found in men, a new study says.
It included more than 900 adults who were assessed twice in the early 1980s; once between 1993 and 1996; and once between 2003 and 2004. Their average age was 47 at their third visit in the '90s.
MONDAY, July 22, 2019 -- No one would argue that antibiotics are an amazing 20th-century innovation, promising a quick cure for bacterial illnesses that might otherwise cause serious harm or death.
But they are not without risk, especially when taken without a doctor's supervision.
WEDNESDAY, July 24, 2019 -- A widening waistline can harm the health of older women, even if they avoid obesity, new research suggests.
It's a condition known as "central obesity" -- a concentration of fat around the abdomen. Central obesity can occur even if it's not enough to shift a person's body mass index (BMI) into the obese range, explained researchers led by Wei Bao, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa.
WEDNESDAY, July 17, 2019 -- Rates of Alzheimer's disease are higher in women than in men, and researchers now think they know why.
A team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tenn., has identified gender differences in how the Alzheimer's-related protein tau spreads in the brain.
THURSDAY, June 27, 2019 -- Stop agonizing over the decades you spent glued to the couch. New research shows that physically active middle-aged and older adults live longer -- even if they were inactive when they were younger.
And that's even if they had previous serious health problems, according to the British study.
WEDNESDAY, June 26, 2019 -- Young women are far less likely now to get an annual pelvic exam than they were in decades past, a new report finds.
In 1988, about 42% of those aged 15 to 20 got the standard gynecologic exam, but by 2017 that number had dropped by half, to just under 22%, according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
