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THURSDAY, March 3, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Eating too much food containing sulfur amino acids – primarily found in proteins such as beef, chicken and dairy – may increase a person's risk of cardiovascular disease and death, according to new preliminary research.Sulfur amino acids are essential for metabolism and overall health, but the average person in the United States consumes far more than needed – as much as two and a half times the estimated average requirement."This may provide part of the reason why people who consume diets that emphasize healthy plant foods have lower rates of cardiovascular disease than those who eat large amounts of meat and dairy foods," said Laila Al-Shaar, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Penn State University College of...

THURSDAY, March 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers already know that repeated hits to the head on the football field are linked to a degenerative brain disease, as seen in a number of retired NFL stars. Now, experts have turned their attention to ice hockey, another high-contact sport.When studying whether the hits, year after year, can also be linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in hockey, the Boston University research team found the link is there: Each additional year of playing ice hockey may increase a person's chance of developing CTE by about 23%, the investigators found.And for each year a person played hockey, there was an associated 15% increased chance for progressing one CTE stage, according to the study."It's an important finding. It's something we can...

THURSDAY, March 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Accelerated research into new vaccines that could be ready within 100 days of the emergence of a new variant is one of the key features of a new COVID response strategy released by the White House on Wednesday.The strategy has four main objectives: protecting against and treating COVID-19; preparing for new variants; avoiding shutdowns; and fighting the virus in other nations.It also includes a new "test to treat" initiative to enable Americans to get tested at a pharmacy and to "receive antiviral pills on the spot at no cost" if they are infected, President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.Another pledge in the plan is to "give schools and businesses guidance, tests and supplies to stay open, including tools to...

THURSDAY, March 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The coronavirus infects the genitals of male monkeys, claims a small study that may shed some light on symptoms such as erectile dysfunction that have been reported by some men with COVID-19.Special whole body scans were used to detect sites of coronavirus infection in three male rhesus macaques and those revealed that the virus had infected the prostate, penis, testicles and surrounding blood vessels, said researchers who were surprised by the discovery."We had no idea we would find it there," study senior author Thomas Hope, a professor of cell and developmental biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, told The New York Times.The study, conducted at the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Louisiana,...