Your heart is a pump. When it contracts, or beats, it sends a surge of blood through the vessels, increasing blood pressure. This is called systolic pressure. When your heart relaxes between beats, your blood pressure decreases. This is called diastolic pressure. For example, if your systolic pressure is …
Living with diabetes is challenging. So is treating it, with a myriad of factors determining or influencing a person’s health. THE PROBLEM In addition, those living with diabetes must take care of themselves by performing daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly tasks to stay ahead of the chronic condition. These include: Checking their feet Reading …
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Niacin, or vitamin B3, is a popular supplement SERSOL/Alamy People with high levels of niacin, also known as vitamin B3, in their blood may be more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those with lower levels. Excessive amounts of the vitamin, which is routinely added to fortified food and can be …
The SAG Awards, which first began in 1995, may have been around for less time than, say, the Oscars or the Golden Globes, but the SAG Awards red carpet is still a must-see fashion event. Some of our favorite sartorial moments in recent years have occurred at said event, from Zendaya’s rosette-covered Valentino gown …
A man wanted on child abuse charges — who was also recently featured on popular crime show “America’s Most Wanted” — was arrested in Florida after his two daughters launched a TikTok campaign in a bid to help hunt him down. The search for Davie Albarran kicked off in late 2022, when the Osceola County …
It’s normal to have concerns about your children playing on your mind. Over time, many dissipate or are superseded, but occasionally they crystallise into a deep-seated fear, and that’s what happened to me on reading your article on young men “looksmaxxing” (From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces, …
The 100 dogs and cats at People’s Animal Welfare Society were no strangers to trauma. Most were at the PAWS shelter because of human failure. They’d been relinquished, returned or simply abandoned by their owners. They’d seen the dark side of humanity. The shelter was their second chance. But on the night of Jan. …
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe began an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio on Tuesday after health authorities detected three cases caused by the rare mutation of the weakened virus used in oral vaccines, including a 10-year-old girl who was paralyzed in January. The health ministry said laboratory tests from …