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The Live Well News editorial team reports on human-health, physiology and aging research - what the evidence actually says, properly cited. This is science reporting, not medical advice.

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Brisk activity tracked with 32% lower cardiovascular risk in 5,186 Dutch adults wearing thigh accelerometers

Moderate exercise tracked 21% less cataract, more did not

Paracetamol matched anti-inflammatories for arthritis pain

Acupuncture and massage moved insomnia by the same amount in advanced cancer

Added sugar and health: what the evidence shows on weight, heart disease and teeth, and what guidelines say

Adding salt to food linked to higher osteoporosis risk, 32% higher in those who always did

Are ADHD and autism overdiagnosed? What England's independent review and the wider research found

ADHD went with higher odds of every gut symptom studied, across 23 studies of 1.9 million people

ADHD linked to later dementia and mild cognitive impairment in the records and genes of 187,341 US adults

Nearly twice as many autistic children with ADHD waited over a year to start medication

ADHD linked to 70% higher death rates in a review of 19 studies of nearly 16 million people

Weekend breaks from ADHD medication brought no advantage in 43 men, and went with more procrastination

A second AI-guided look at the right colon found precancerous growths in 8.5% more patients

Aging hearts lose their drainage vessels, and in mice that loss helped drive inflammation

A hospital found 28 cases of 'AI psychosis' among 215,712 mental health patients, most in a first episode

Specialists guessing the gene behind an eye disease did far better with an AI looking too

Air pollution tied to worse memory at 'safe' levels

Air pollution and rheumatoid arthritis: fine particles tied to more flares in 1,070 patients

Moderate drinking tracked lower heart risk and higher cancer risk in the same 438,442 people

Cutting alcohol in midlife showed no breast cancer benefit yet

Alcohol tied to cancer risk below one drink a day

Cannabis use disorder rose among US adults from 2021 to 2024 while alcohol use disorder held steady or fell

Heavy drinking and obesity both raised diabetes risk, separately

Carrying one copy of the alpha-1 antitrypsin variant raised liver risk, not just two

Alcohol and sleep: why a nightcap helps people nod off and what it does to the rest of the night

Physical activity tracked 23% less motor neuron disease across 384,836 UK adults

Light-to-moderate drinking tied to more colorectal cancer in Koreans, more so with high blood sugar

Dementia stayed rare in two Indigenous Amazonian groups followed for nearly five years

People with a common cause of brain bleeds had 16 times the odds of possible depression

A two-armed antibody cleared more HER2-positive breast tumors before surgery than standard treatment

Male hormones help keep muscle stem cells in reserve for repair, a study in mice finds

Expressing milk before birth more than doubled exclusive breastfeeding after gestational diabetes

Therapy animals eased depression in older adults across 20 studies, but not loneliness

Anti-inflammatory diet linked to longer life after cancer

Antihistamines helped eczema too little for patients to notice, across 47 trials

Why apoB may be a better cholesterol test than LDL

A gene variant linked to long life kept brain blood vessel support cells healthier in mice and lab cells

Antidepressants in pregnancy linked to a small rise in special educational needs among 167,000 children

Angiotensin receptor blockers tracked 8% less dementia than calcium channel blockers

Artificial sweeteners linked to worse blood-sugar control

Ashwagandha: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Daily aspirin did nothing for healthspan in 19,114 older adults

The hearts of 13 astronauts adjusted to six months in space and coped with simulated Mars gravity

First trial backs blood thinners for atrial fibrillation with one stroke risk factor, on just 17 events

Ablation for atrial fibrillation did not clearly beat a sham on quality of life in a 262-patient trial

Atrial fibrillation sped up muscle loss over 12 years

Starting autism intervention earlier predicted better outcomes across 582 children

Genetic risk fell as autism and ADHD diagnoses rose in Denmark

Autism diagnoses rose only in women and girls after 2020

An antibody blocking B12 from reaching the brain was found in over half of unexplained spinal cord cases

An old antibiotic beat a newer drug at preventing COPD flare-ups, 17% fewer

B vitamins tracked slightly less breast cancer, but not in women drinking more than a glass a day

Modest amounts of exercise eased chronic back pain in 239 trials, with little extra from more

Baduanjin qigong eased anxiety in people with glaucoma, but no eye pressure was measured

Perturbation training topped 19 exercises tested for balance in 423 trials of 33,901 older adults

Benefits of a type 1 diabetes pill faded within a year of patients stopping it

What blocks nutrition security: time, transport and cost

Long-lived bats carry genetic changes that may link their resistance to cancer and to viruses

Bed bugs: what their bites do and do not do, why they came back and what getting rid of them involves

A statin alternative cut serious leg artery events by 36% in people who cannot take statins

First-trimester benzodiazepine prescriptions not linked to more birth defects in 4.2 million US pregnancies

Berberine: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Fusing an arthritic big toe cut walking pain from 5.7 to 1.3 in the first trial to test it

Binaural beats did not calm dental anxiety in a trial

Light weights with a blood flow cuff matched heavy lifting for strength in 45 rehab trials

Falling blood pressure tracked with memory loss in women

Blood mutations that accumulate with age tracked faster progression to advanced heart and kidney disease

Ergothioneine topped 991 blood markers of brain health

Younger generations are aging faster, and cancer tracks it

Each 20-point drop in blood pressure tracked 24% fewer kidney failure deaths

Tighter blood pressure control cut cardiovascular events with or without kidney disease in 27 trials

Blood pressure readings explained: how arm position, cuff size and other errors can shift the numbers

Blood pressure that swings tracked with faster memory loss

A blood test told three dementias apart, not just detected one

Blood sodium in the upper normal range tracked up to 3 times the dementia risk

Do blue-light glasses work? What the research shows

Reading the trend in old blood tests helped spot cancer after unexplained weight loss, for some tests

Blueberries showed no link to heart attacks or strokes in 38,088 women over 28 years