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THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Men with Down syndrome may think and remember better when treated with a brain hormone normally associated with fertility, a new small-scale study suggests.Rhythmic drip doses of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) improved thinking skills in nearly all of a small group of adult males with Down syndrome, improving their memory, attention and reasoning.Six months of GnRH therapy improved cognition “in six out of seven patients by 20% to 30%,” said senior researcher Vincent Prevot, director of the development & plasticity of the neuroendocrine brain team at the University of Lille, in France.If these results are confirmed in larger clinical trials, this would make GnRH therapy the first available treatment to help Down syndrome patients...

THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Let's admit it: Oatmeal is a total nerd. It lacks fashion sense – the color they named after it is somewhere on the drab side of beige. It's often seen with Sesame Street's Bert, who also loves bottle caps, paper clips and pigeons.But when it comes to healthy eating, oatmeal and the oats it comes from can definitely hang with the cool kids at the breakfast table."It has many, many good qualities," said Candida Rebello, director of the nutrition and chronic disease research program at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.Extensive studies have associated oats and oatmeal with plenty of heart-healthy benefits, such as lowering cholesterol (both total and "bad" LDL cholesterol) and...

THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of suffering a stroke at an early age may depend partly on a person's blood type, a large study suggests.When it comes to the risk of ischemic stroke — the kind caused by a blood clot — studies have hinted that blood type plays a role. People with type O blood generally have a somewhat lower risk than those with types A, B or AB.Now the new study suggests that blood type is more strongly tied to the risk of ischemic stroke at a younger age (before age 60) compared to later in life. And type A blood, specifically, stood out as a risk factor.The researchers stressed that blood type is not a strong influence: On average, they found, people with type A blood had a 16% higher risk of having a stroke before age 60, versus people with...

THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Many guys love a breakfast plate piled high with sausages and maybe a sugar-glazed danish on the side. Now, research shows that wolfing down too many ultra-processed foods like these could be bad news for a man's colon.Specifically, men who consumed the highest amount of ultra-processed food had a 29% greater risk for developing colon cancer, when compared to men who consumed smaller amounts. Surprisingly, there was not an increased risk for women who consumed higher amounts of ultra-processed foods.“The study provides evidence of the potential link between ultra-processed foods and colorectal cancer, and supports the public health importance of limiting certain types of ultra-processed foods for promoting better health outcomes in the...