WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- You have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. What are your medication options? That depends on what type of diabetes you have and what risk factors you carry. In type 2 diabetes, the body becomes resistant to the...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- Pregnancy triggers many changes to the body, but there's one that may surprise many women. A hidden change is that the heart has to pump, on average, nearly 50% more blood by the end of pregnancy than it did before...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- Several companies are selling copycat food items that have the potential to trick people, including children, into consuming dangerous quantities of cannabis. On Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- Heather Anderson, a star Australian rules football player who died last November, is the first female professional athlete to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. "She is the first female athlete...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- Dr. Richard Stumacher’s coworker at Northwell Health in New York City used to smoke to curb her severe anxiety, and tried multiple times to stop. “She went through the program and she would quit, and then she...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- For nearly three decades, daily antiretroviral pills have offered patients living with HIV a highly effective way to keep their infection under control. But some patients, particularly those beset by homelessness, drug...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Ed Frauenheim frequently walked the hilly streets around his San Francisco neighborhood. One summer day, he took long strides to his favorite park. As always, he huffed and puffed a bit up...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- Medical marijuana is touted as a pain reliever, but in U.S. states where it's legal, prescriptions for opioid or non-opioid painkillers haven't decreased, a new study finds. According to researchers, this means that...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 – While a little more than half of American adults think they’ve had COVID-19, the reality is about 77.5% have been infected at least once, new government data shows. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 – Despite overall national declines in smoking, Americans who live in the South and Midwest are still much more likely to smoke, and smoke more, than those living in other states, a new report shows. A nonprofit...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- For much of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors have told patients who get a negative result after taking a rapid antigen test at home to test again 48 hours later. A new study confirms that’s the right advice. Whether...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- Youth who are both LGBTQ+ and either Black or Hispanic and live in U.S. states that have discriminatory policies are more likely to have depression than their counterparts in states that are more affirming to gender and...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- Like people, dogs slow down as they age. Researchers wondered whether slowed walking could also signal mental decline. To learn more, they did a series of experiments that included measuring the dogs' speed both on and...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- A severe spinal cord injury is traumatic enough, but new research now shows that trauma can trigger an immune deficiency that puts patients at risk for developing life-threatening infections. A new study from a team of...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- Older American adults who live in warmer regions are more likely to have serious vision impairment than those who live in cooler places, new research finds. Living with average temperatures of 60 degrees Fahrenheit or...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- People are using “browning lotions” to tan quickly, but experts are questioning the safety of this trend driven by social media influencers. Browning lotions work with the sun's UV rays to darken skin...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 -- As you stare down your freshman year of college and contemplate living away from home, you’re probably facing a few “firsts”: First roommate who isn’t a sibling; first time fending for yourself to...