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A new study finds that omega-3 fatty acids don't help patients with heart disease avoid future heart-related problems.
Colds are no fun for anyone, but for newborns, any assault on their still-developing immune systems can be dangerous. But moms-to-be can reduce the risk that their little ones will get sick by taking fish oil supplements.
Postpartum depression can affect up to 25% of new mothers during the first year after delivery, but researchers say there may be a relatively easy way to lower that risk — starting before women give birth.
There was good reason to believe that fish oil, which has been linked to health benefits for the heart, might also work its medical magic on the brain, particularly with Alzheimer’s disease. Preliminary studies hinted that people with higher levels of fish oil in their blood were less likely to develop Alzheimer’s, while animal experiments [...]
Pregnant women have a lot to worry about when it comes to keeping their bodies and their developing babies healthy. Now researchers in Australia report that fish-oil supplements, a popular nutritional boost that many moms-to-be thought helped boost their mood and their little ones’ brain development, doesn’t do much for either.
For patients at very high risk for developing a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia, taking fish oil supplements may be a way to prevent the onset of psychosis, according to a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Due to the controversial nature of using anti-psychotic drugs as a preventive treatment for at-risk [...]
Mounting evidence supports the healthy-heart benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. You’ve probably heard of them before; they’re the fatty acids found in fish or fish-oil supplements. This month, a group of scientists writing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologyhas gone back to review decades’ worth of past studies on the fatty acids’ [...]
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
