The Keto/Paleo diet is "better than the rest" and not good for the planet.

Published Date: 08 Mar 2023

Plant-based vegetarian and vegan diets may have the lowest carbon footprint in the United States, but new data analysis shows fish-based pescatarian diets are the best.

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Evidence supports replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat and improving cardiorespiratory fitness, but neither trend has evidence for the categorical claims made online.

Among patients with acute dengue infection, those already on dual antiplatelet or oral anticoagulant therapies experience major bleeding more often than those not on antithrombotic therapy.

The extent of late gadolinium enhancement and tissue damage on cardiac imaging may help predict risk for sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction.

A new study highlights the need to expand emergency response efforts for sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes.

In spontaneous spinal cord infarction, standard antiplatelet therapy was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality compared with thrombolytic treatment.

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