Published October 31, 2017

Researchers wanted to find out if hatha yoga could relieve depression. They found that it helped every single one of the participants get better. In addition, the researchers found that the yoga participants were more likely to lose their depression altogether.

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Published October 27, 2017

Researchers followed 6,693 women with early stage breast cancer. These patients were randomly divided into two groups. One group received chemotherapy, and the other didn’t. After five years, only a handful of the patients who received chemotherapy had experienced a breast cancer relapse. The overwhelming majority were disease-free. The non-chemo group didn’t fare quite as well, leading the researchers to conclude that approximately one in four patients with small tumors are at risk of metastases.

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Published October 25, 2017

Researchers recently conducted a study with 444 patients suffering from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. They divided the patients into three groups, with each receiving a different pain-relieving drug. The groups that received ibuprofen and naproxen, both NSAIDs, saw average systolic blood pressure increases of 3.7 and 1.6 mmHg, respectively. Moreover, among the patients who had normal baseline blood pressure to begin with, 23.2% of those receiving ibuprofen and 19% of those receiving naproxen developed hypertension by the end of the study.

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