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Hormones and Stroke Risk: Pregnancy, Menopause, and More Women’s HealthJuly 02, 2026 9 Min Read

A new willingness to acknowledge the risk that some people with severe mental illnesses may become violent is welcomed by Prof John F Morgan

The Gut-Brain Axis. Or, if you prefer, the gut-brain axis. The more research progresses, the more we discover that the interactions between the inhabitants of the ‘megacity’ that is our digestive system and the wellbeing of the central nervous system are closely and firmly interlinked. In fact, the gut microbiota could even act as a…

The type of sleep you’re getting each night could be influencing your risk of more than 80 diseases, a new study has found

December 19, 2025 ByLynne Christensen, Staff Writer

Postmenopausal women using hormone therapy were more likely to develop autoimmune diseases compared with nonusers, research presented at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society showed

3. Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Scientists found those who had used hormone replacement therapy were 10% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia

A poor night’s sleep portends a bleary-eyed next day, but it could also hint at diseases that will strike years down the road. A new artificial intelligence model developed by Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues can use physiological recordings from one night’s sleep to predict a person’s risk of developing more than 100 health…

Whether you are an early bird or a night owl, your sleep patterns can tell a lot about a person’s eating habits and subsequently the potential health risks