Bamboo shoot fiber helps prevent obesity: study

The study was published in the Journal of Functional Foods...

Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Long-term Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Exercise Treadmill Testing

Cardiorespiratory fitness is inversely associated with long-term mortality with no observed upper limit of benefit...

U.S. scientists create new drug to sustain oxygen-starved hearts

The biopharmaceutical company has been developing oxygen-delivery therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, trauma and other conditions in which low oxygen levels, or hypoxia, negatively impact disease outcomes...

Implications of low muscle mass across the continuum of care: a narrative review

Abnormalities in body composition can occur at any body weight...

Prolonging healthy aging: Longevity vitamins and proteins

Combined mineral-supplemented diet and exercise increases bone mass and strength after eight weeks and maintains increases after eight weeks detraining in adult mice

These benefits remain after an equally long period of detraining...

Length of ring and index fingers 'linked to sexuality'

Because of the link between hormone levels and difference in finger lengths, looking at someone's hands could provide a clue to their sexuality...

A single missing gene leads to miscarriage

The fact that one single gene of the mother plays such a crucial role for placental development is a very rare, but very important observation...

Prediabetes may pose threat to male fertility

In a cohort of 744 men with primary infertility, around 15% fit the criteria for having undiagnosed prediabetes, reported Andrea Salonia, MD, PhD, of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy, and colleagues...

Scientists find hypertension treatment that mimics effect of exercise

The team's findings were published Tuesday in the Oct. 16 issue of the life sciences journal Cell Reports...