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Credit: https://kaboompics.com/ from Pexels New research shows how colon cancer survivors can overcome mental hurdles to stick with long-term exercise—a shift in mindset that could lower their risk of the disease coming back and improve their chances of survival. In a study tracking patients in a three-year structured exercise program, the results showed that because of the support they received, participants experienced a boost in confidence, enjoyment and motivation to make exercise part of their regular routine. The paper is published in the JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease, so it’s important to keep it in check. It’s possible to lower blood pressure without medication by losing weight, exercising and eating a healthier diet. One vegetable in particular stands out, says Dr. Annapoorna Kini, a cardiologist at the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital in New York. Heart Health Tip of the Day: Add Beets to Your Diet“If you really want to know what decreases blood pressure, it is beet — beet root,” Kini tells TODAY.com. Beets contain nitrates, which get converted to nitric oxide in the body, and “plays an essential role in cardiovascular health,” researchers note. It’s a natural vasodilator, meaning it opens blood vessels, allowing greater blood flow. “It works on the (blood) vessel wall — dilates the smooth muscle of the vessel wall. That way, your vessel remains pliable,” Kini adds. Why It MattersBlood vessels become more rigid as people get older and start building up plaque in their arteries, Kini notes; and when the arteries get stiff, that’s how you develop high blood pressure.

While autumn in Montreal is a whimsical season characterized by crisp mornings, colourful foliage and pumpkins galore, for some it can also come with an underlying feeling of dread. Another brutal winter is around the corner — a time when daylight is limited and people naturally gravitate indoors, resulting in lower energy and a change in moods.

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An esteemed neuroscientist grapples with a life-altering illness KARIM NADER SIPPED from a Coke can as he strode across the front of the lecture hall in a long coat, one ear pierced, tossing out questions and calling on students at random to answer them. “What do you think it would be like if you couldn’t forget anything—if you remembered every single detail of your life?” It was around 2007: I was in my second or third year of undergrad at McGill University, and Nader was teaching a class on his work in memory research.

Image of the plate showing different rates of cell growth. New research has revealed an unexpected new mechanism through which the killer fungus Candida auris is resisting antifungal drug treatment. A team led by the University of Exeter and City St George's, University of London, discovered that the fungus creates multiple versions of its entire genome, including mutating a gene that plays a role in cell wall integrity, called "Crazy-one" (CRZ1). The study is set to appear in Nature Communications and is currently available on the bioRxiv preprint server.

MainThe hippocampus plays a crucial role in the registration of our experiences as episodic memories and includes the dentate gyrus (DG) subregion that contributes to memory formation by decreasing memory interference1. Furthermore, dysfunction in DG is considered to be a primary driver of aging-associated cognitive decline and a hallmark of mild cognitive impairment (MCI)2. Healthy cognitive aging depends on a balance of resilience and vulnerability factors that dictate the tempo of pathophysiological alterations, such as synapse loss3,4, lipid dysregulation5,6,7,8,9, emergence of maladaptive ‘inflammatory’ microglia6,10,11 and reactive astrogliosis12,13, oxidative stress14,15, loss of hippocampal neurogenesis16, and excitation–inhibition imbalance2,17,18. Disruption of this balance leads to a trajectory of cognitive decline and increased risk for MCI and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A complementary perspective, first offered within the framework of cognitive reserve theory, posits that pathological cognitive decline reflects a failure to compensate for the progressive increase in pathophysiological alterations over time19 (Fig. 1a).

One Albertan has already died from influenza as the province records more than 400 cases before flu vaccines become widely available, raising concerns about an early start to the season. According to provincial data, Alberta has recorded 411 flu cases so far this season, along with nearly 50 hospitalizations and one death. The Calgary zone has been hit hardest, recording the highest number of cases in the province so far this season.

High levels of potassium in the blood, common in people on certain medications or with kidney disease, often come with no symptoms, but can be deadly in severe cases. Because people with hyperkalemia, or high potassium, often "feel normal," their treating physicians must determine whether their condition can be safely managed outside the hospital or requires more urgent treatment in the emergency department.

As part of a series examining the work of life insurers for affluent and HNW clients in Singapore, we talk to a senior executive at Manulife about its recent research and the implications. here, this news service is looking at the life insurance