By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Women who eat a lot of "bad" saturated fat may hurt their overall brain function and memory over time, Harvard University researchers report. In contrast, eating more "good" monounsaturated ...

It appears that in some cases, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, the so-called "good" cholesterol, does not protect against heart disease, and may even be harmful. A new study suggests a subclass of HDL that carries a particular protein is bad for the heart. Previous studies have shown that ...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) According to new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital, one "bad" fat -- saturated fat -- was found to be associated with worse overall cognitive function and memory in women over time. By contrast, a "good" fat -- mono-unsaturated fat was associated with better overall cognitive ...

A Penn research team, led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, reports in Nature Medicine that mice in which an enzyme called histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) was deleted had massively fatty livers, but ...

For many people with gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD, acid reflux drugs are the answer to their woes, curbing the chronic heartburn and regurgitation of food or sour liquid characteristic of the disorder. But when it comes to Barrett's esophagus, a condition commonly found in people with GERD, acid control ...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) For many people with GERD, acid reflux drugs are the answer to their woes, curbing the chronic heartburn characteristic of the disorder. But when it comes to Barrett's esophagus, a condition commonly found in people with GERD, acid control may be less important than beating ...

MONDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- Being ignored feels just as bad when it happens online as when it happens in person. That's the conclusion of a new study that looked at the emotional impact of feeling excluded using social media, such as Facebook, compared to face to face. ...

Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) is the "bad" cholesterol, and despite many drugs including statins available to doctors, patients often have trouble reducing their blood level of LCL-C. Sanofi and Regeneron presented data at The American College of Cardiology Meeting on 26th March 2012, showing an impressive reduction using their new antibody ...

US researchers suggest there is an underlying mechanism that affects both cancer and low LDL (so-called "bad") cholesterol, because they found low LDL cholesterol in people with no history of taking drugs to lower their cholesterol precedes cancer risk by decades. Lead investigator Dr Paul Michael Lavigne, of ...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Many cash-strapped American families are waiting on their tax rebate to file for bankruptcy, and this trend has gained steam as costs related to filing for bankruptcy have gone up. Total bankruptcies increased by about 2 percent after the 2001 rebates, and by ...

A study, conducted by researchers at University College London, reveals that making a difficult decision can result in poor decisions and could be associated with depression. The study is published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology. When presented with making a difficult decision, the human brain subconsciously uses a ...

Yale researchers have discovered how megakaryocytes - giant blood cells that produce wound-healing platelets - manage to grow 10 to 15 times larger than other blood cells. The findings, to be published March 13 in the journal Developmental Cell, also hint at how a malfunction in this process may cause ...