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Heart health
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Meals built from traditional foods cut heart failure hospital visits by more than a quarter
Medically tailored meals usually mean someone else's idea of healthy food. A trial in 206 American Indian patients with heart failure built the meals from foods the community already eats, and counted what happened.
Sep 6, 2026
Heat and wildfire smoke together tracked more heart deaths than either alone
Heat waves and smoke days are studied as separate hazards and increasingly arrive on the same day. Across 5.9 million cardiovascular deaths in six countries, the overlap was worse than adding the two together.
Sep 4, 2026
Saturated fat tracked 24% more deaths after prostate cancer, but not from the cancer
Most men diagnosed with early prostate cancer do not die of it. Following 4,884 of them for over a decade, what they ate afterwards moved every cause of death except the one they were treated for.
Sep 4, 2026
A blood thinner outperformed a standard migraine drug in people with a hole in the heart
Roughly one adult in four has a small flap left open between the heart's upper chambers, and it is more common in people with migraine. Randomizing 984 of them put an anticoagulant well ahead of the usual preventive.
Sep 4, 2026