A warning about painkillers and antidepressants and how eating high fat foods could affect your brain.
KAMC’s Allison Morrison brings you today’s top health and medical stories.
A new study shows a diet full of saturated high fat foods can impair the brain pathway that controls motivation.
Canadian researchers found eating fats can affect brain activity related to mood disorders, drug addiction and overeating.
Harvard researchers say treating more people with cholesterol-lowering statins could help prevent more than 160 thousand cardiovascular issues.
They say it would be cost-effective to treat as many as 67 percent of adults ages 40 to 75.
Currently about 26 percent of adults over age 40 take statins.
Taking antidepressants and painkillers at the same time can cause increased bleeding inside the skull.
That’s according to a new study in the British Medical Journal.
Researchers say it’s not uncommon for both drugs to be taken together since many people with major depression often have chronic pain.
