Trump Picks Vaccine Mandate Critic Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to Head National Institutes of Health

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford health economist and critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the nation's largest medical research agency, the National Institutes of Health.

In a statement late Tuesday, Trump said Bhattacharya will work under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., potential head ...

Irregular Sleep Might Raise Odds for Heart Attack, Stroke

Folks with irregular sleep patterns might have an increased risk of a heart attack or stroke, a new study says.

People who doze off and wake up at extremely varied times day by day have a 26% increased risk of a potentially fatal heart-related health emergency, results show.

This elevated risk occurred whether or not these folks got ...

Scientists Find Way to Deliver Medicines Across Brain's Protective Barrier

The blood-brain barrier is a natural membrane that protects your brain from toxins and germs.

Unfortunately, this barrier also hampers the delivery of important medicines and therapies into the brain.

But researchers now think they’ve figured out a way to get drugs past the blood-brain barrier.

A Mount Sinai research team...

Soccer 'Headers' Could Pose Danger to Brains

Bouncing a soccer ball off the head during play could be doing real damage to the brain, a new study suggests.

MRI brain scans of male and female soccer athletes suggests that lots of "heading" could damage areas of the brain already known to be linked to debilitating concussion-linked conditions, such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (...

Zepbound Slashes Diabetes Risk in Obese Users

The cutting-edge weight-loss drug Zepbound can protect obese people from developing type 2 diabetes, a new clinical trial has found.

Zepbound reduced the risk of diabetes in obese prediabetic patients by more than 90% during a three-year period compared to placebo, trial results show.

“These results show that type 2 diabetes ma...

Heart Trouble Harms Men's Brains Far Sooner Than Women's

Men with heart risk factors tend to lose their brain health more quickly than women with similar heart risks, a new study finds.

These men face brain decline as early as their mid-50s, while women are most susceptible from their mid-60s onward, researchers report in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

“These r...