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A team of WHO experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 arrives at a market in Wuhan where one of the first reported clusters of infections emerged over a year ago. IMAGES
A new analysis from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows cancer can take years off a person's life--literally. UPI reports the analysis, released Thursday, says surviving cancer 'ages' a person's heart by up to nine years. Based on their overall health, adult male cancer survivors were found to have hearts that appeared 8 1/2 years older than their actual age. As for women, females who survived the disease were found to have hearts that appeared to be 6 1/2 years older. Past research has found that compared to non-cancer survivors, adult cancer survivors are at high risk for heart disease due to greater excess heart age.
Shares of the nutrition supplements company Herbalife were down as much as 3.2% in premarket trading on Monday. The slump came on the news that activist investor Carl Icahn will be selling about $600 million worth of his stake in the company. According to Business Insider, Icahn will also give up his firm's five seats on Herbalife's board. Herbalife will repurchase Icahn's shares for $48.05 per share. The time for activism has passed as the Company has grown, and I don't typically invest billions of dollars in companies where our role as activist is not needed. Carl Icahn
A new study says better heart health in middle age may help reduce a person's risk significantly for dementia later in life. Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute studied 1,449 Finns enrolled in the Finnish Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging, and Dementia study. Adults with 'ideal' results on several cardiovascular health metrics were found to be 86% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with lower scores. According to UPI, the metrics considered included smoking history, engagement in physical activity, body weight, cholesterol levels, and blood pressure. The findings suggest that maintaining lifelong heart health by not smoking, exercising regularly, and staying slim may reduce dementia risk later in life.
A new study reveals older women have a greater risk of heart failure if they spend more time sitting than those who sit less. And according to UPI, that's even if they have a regular fitness routine. As part of the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, researchers analyzed the records of 80,100 postmenopausal women who were roughly 63 years old. Women spending less than 6.5 hours daily sitting or lying down had 15% less risk of heart failure hospitalization than women spending 9.5 sedentary hours daily. The data also showed the less sedentary women had a 42% less risk of heart failure hospitalization than women reporting more than 9.5 hours sedentary hours.
A Seattle doctor says her patient 'came back from the dead' after his heart stopped for 45 minutes and he froze to death. 45-year-old hiker Michael Knapinski was found unconscious after being lost in whiteout conditions on Mount Rainier in Washington state. Knapinski was put on life support after arriving at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, last week. But his team of doctors quickly decided he would be the perfect patient for the life support machine known as ECMO--essentially a 'heart' outside the body. According to CNN, doctors were able to jumpstart his heart. I'm extremely grateful to everybody here at the hospital for not giving up on me. I'm alive and breathing. Michael Knapinski