Older adults who take up drawing could enhance their memory, according to a new study.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that men with chronic kidney disease are more likely to experience disease progression and death when compared with women suffering from the same condition.

More consumers and health professionals are using wearable technology to monitor their daily health metrics. Not surprisingly, wearable technology is forecast as next year’s most popular trend in health and fitness.

Fasting before getting your blood drawn for cholesterol tests is common practice, but new research from Michigan State University shows it is a contributing factor of low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, in patients who take diabetes medications.

A collaborative study led by a neurologist at Rush University Medical Center and an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that weather patterns that cause dramatic changes in barometric pressure may increase the incidence of a type of stroke known as spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage, that is, the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.

Exposure to emerging contaminants, even at extremely low doses, can cause adverse health effects for humans, including endocrine disruption which can lead to developmental malformations, interference with reproduction, increased cancer risk and disturbances in the immune and nervous system functions.