A research team led by Dr. Nicholas Koemel, a research fellow and registered dietitian at the University of Sydney, published a large-scale cardiovascular study on March 23, 2026, in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. The paper examined how three specific lifestyle behaviors, taken together, affect the risk of major cardiovascular events – meaning heart attacks, strokes,...
Two economists set out to measure something most people only feel in their gut: the idea that life gets harder somewhere in the middle. David Blanchflower, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and Andrew Oswald, a professor at the University of Warwick in the UK, spent years building one of the...
Questions about antioxidants and cancer rarely stay simple. Antioxidants are usually framed as protective substances that limit cellular damage. This new Nature study forces a more careful view. Researchers at the University of Rochester found a different role for glutathione. Glutathione is a major antioxidant made by the body. In some tumor settings, it can...
Most people don’t expect something as serious as cancer to begin with subtle, everyday changes. That’s part of what makes early bowel cancer symptoms so dangerous. For many, there’s no dramatic warning sign, just small changes that don’t seem urgent at first. The story of Mel Schilling has brought this reality into sharp focus. Known...
Federal health regulators have formally warned ImmunityBio Inc. for making misleading promotional claims about Anktiva, the company’s bladder cancer drug. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the company’s executive chairman, made these claims during a public podcast appearance in January 2026. The FDA determined that the statements were false, misleading, and in clear violation of federal drug marketing...
Valerian has become one of the most recognizable names in natural anxiety remedies. It appears in teas, capsules, tinctures, blended sleep formulas, and late-night internet searches. The herb also carries one of wellness culture’s strongest nicknames: nature’s valium. That phrase is memorable, yet it also invites confusion. NIH says valerian and Valium are “not related...
Mrinali Dhembla was planning a wedding when the back pain started. She was 26, newly engaged, and working as a digital media strategist. For months, she dismissed early warning signs, including rectal bleeding, low-grade fevers, and chronic constipation. When a doctor finally delivered the news, she refused to believe it. “I still remember the doctor...
Millions of adults reach for sleep aids or anti-anxiety medications each year, but a growing number are looking at what has been sitting in apothecary cabinets for centuries. Valerian root, a plant-based supplement derived from Valeriana officinalis, has been used since ancient Greece and Rome to calm the nervous system and encourage sleep. What is new...
Chayote (Sechium edule) has been a dietary staple across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and parts of the Caribbean for centuries, yet most North American grocery shoppers walk right past it. That is starting to change. A growing body of nutritional research points to this pale green, pear-shaped gourd as a meaningful contributor to two of...
The phrase ‘anti-anxiety vaccine’ travels fast because it sounds novel, simple, and futuristic. Yet, what we are going to talk about, an experimental compound called PA-915, would not behave like a true vaccine in the medical sense. The CDC explains that vaccines work by “imitating an infection” and training immune defenses for future protection. PA-915...
Bad news for some cannabis users: both recreational and medical cannabis use seem to be ineffective in reducing the symptoms of various mental health conditions, according to 2 recent studies. The Lancet Psychiatry published a major meta-analysis conducted by the University of Sydney’s Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use. Researchers went...
Pancreatic cancer rarely announces itself early. It often grows in deep tissue, causes vague symptoms, and reaches medical attention after valuable time has passed. That late discovery has brutal consequences. In the United States, about 15% of cases are found while still localized. Another 51% are diagnosed after distant spread. Survival changes very sharply with...
