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The Unexpected Skin Change That’s Linked to Heart Disease  AOL.com Source link

There’s a wide divide in finances between Major League Baseball’s big-market and small-market teams. As for the win column? Not so much. The 2025 season has produced a surprising show of parity through the first five months of the regular season. While most of the league’s big spenders — teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and New …

Let’s be real: When it comes to detecting heart disease risk, you probably aren’t checking your skin first. And why would you? Skin health and heart health are unrelated, right?  Not quite, doctors say. “Your skin is the largest organ in the body, which is a reflection of your systemic wellness,” explains Dr. Karuppiah “Kar” Arunachalam, MD, a board-certified cardiovascular …

When most people think of zinc, they picture a vitamin supplement that helps fight off colds. But researchers in Europe have uncovered a surprising new role for this essential mineral — one that could transform farming as we know it. A team of scientists from Denmark’s Aarhus University, the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility discovered …

The Great Salt Lake once reached depths of up to 1,000 feet and spanned roughly 20,000 square miles, but today, it mostly resembles a parched wasteland. So, when signs of life suddenly began popping up across the drying playa, scientists were perplexed. In the last several years, reed-covered mounds have appeared off the lake’s southeast shore. These densely vegetated oases …

Wwe/Getty Images Dominik Mysterio walked out of “WWE Raw” with his Intercontinental Championship reign intact thanks to the help of El Grande Americano.  Mysterio and AJ Styles met in a rematch of their SummerSlam title bout, which ended with the champion retaining after striking the challenger over the head with his pulled-off …

A doctor has revealed the top three ‘unexpected’ things that she tries to avoid – and some of them may shock you. The crucial information was shared in a new video posted to TikTok this week by Los Angeles-based doctor Nicole Van Groningen. Dr. Van Groningen is an internal medicine doctor, and often takes to the social media platform to debunk medical …

Baboons walking in progression on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula. Credit: Vittoria Roatti Baboons have long puzzled scientists with their habit of walking in neat lines across the African landscape. Were they protecting the vulnerable, following leaders, or competing for food? A Swansea University team used high-resolution GPS to track wild chacma baboons and tested these theories. Why Baboons Walk in …

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