Health News

What The Colour Of Your Period Is Trying To Tell You

Apart from stomach cramps, moods and an insatiable hunger, your period may actually be trying to tell you a little bit more about your health then the fact you need chocolate STAT! The colour of your monthly flow can actually tell you if everything is functioning smoothly down there or if you’ve got a serious […]

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Midlife Fitness Linked to Lower Risk of Depression, CVD Death

THURSDAY, June 28, 2018 — Midlife fitness is associated with reduced risk of depression in later life and with reductions in the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and CVD mortality after later-life depression, according to a study published online June 27 in JAMA Psychiatry. Benjamin L. Willis, M.D., M.P.H., from The Cooper Institute in […]

Health Problems

Complexity of NMDA receptor drug discovery target revealed

Know your target. Especially if your target is coming into focus for treating diseases such as schizophrenia and treatment-resistant depression. NMDA receptors, critical for learning and memory, are sensors in the brain. Studying them in molecular detail is challenging, because they usually come in four parts, and the parts aren’t all the same. Researchers at […]