After PSA testing to check for hidden prostate cancer, many men are offered a prostate biopsy to confirm a diagnosis. Often, biopsies do not find cancer, making the biopsy unnecessary. The PCA3 test can help some men avoid unnecessary repeat biopsies.
Certain fruits and vegetables deliver a significant amount of potassium with comparatively low carbohydrates, making them better food sources for people with diabetes. They include asparagus, tomatoes, green leafy vegetables, strawberries, and nectarines.
Vegetable-rich diets are associated with lower risk for chronic disease. To get the full range of nutrition from plant foods, choose from a variety of colors when you shop and eat, including blue/purple, green, orange/yellow, white/light green, and red.
Exercise isn’t all about weight loss. Researchers studying the effects of exercise find that it affects the body down to the subcellular level.
Surgery for chronic heartburn relieves symptoms better than medication for at least five years.
If you aren’t physically active, chances are it’s more than a coincidence if you have heart disease.
Meat eaters should be careful about taking L-carnitine supplements, new research suggests.
Bypass surgery is considered the best treatment when all three coronary arteries are blocked. It’s usually the best choice when the most important of the three arteries is blocked.
Eat a half cup of blueberries or strawberries three times each week. It’s nutritious-and it may very well lower your risk of heart attack, a study of young and middle-aged women suggests.
Taking two kinds of blood thinners-anticoagulant and antiplatelet drugs-increases your risk of dangerous bleeding. But for some people with atrial fibrillation, the stroke-prevention benefit of this double therapy far outweighs the risk.