FDA Panned at Senate Hearing for Failure to Address Diabetes, Obesity Epidemics
The FDA has not done nearly enough to hold food manufacturers accountable for their part in the increase of obesity ...
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Social Media Unleashes Cruel Responses to UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Murder
In the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, some commenters on social media posted savage replies -- ...
Going From High to Low Disease Activity in Lupus Might Not Be Easy, but Worth Trying
Patients with highly active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) appeared to sustain much less organ damage and fewer disease flares when ...
AI Breath Test IDs Cancers; More Grief for Prior Auth; Imatinib Discoverer Resigns
A breath test supported by artificial intelligence achieved 94% accuracy for detecting four common types of cancer, including 95% accuracy ...
Psilocybin Cut Depression Symptoms in COVID’s Frontline Healthcare Workers
Psilocybin therapy reduced depression symptoms in clinicians who developed these symptoms after frontline clinical work during the COVID-19 pandemic, a ...
Asylum Seekers Enter U.S. With Unexpectedly Large Symptom Load
Over 90% of asylum seekers had symptoms of psychological stress, while roughly half had symptoms of cardiovascular disease and somatic ...
Weight-loss drug Mounjaro ‘changed my life,’ says mother-of-two
HANDOUTAlix Harvey started taking the weight-loss drug in May this yearWeight-loss drug Mounjaro is set to be rolled out on ...
Words Found at Scene of CEO Killing May Link to a Book. Here’s What That Could Mean.
As the New York City Police Department continues to search for a motive in the murder of United Healthcare CEO ...
Muscle Loss May Portend Future Dementia
Older individuals with apparent skeletal muscle mass loss were at greater risk of developing dementia, researchers found. People with low ...
Ophthalmologist Ponders Glasses in ‘Wicked’; What’s ‘Neuro Breath’? Cons of Raw Milk
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Nearly 6 Million Deaths From Five Major Cancer Types Averted Since 1975
An estimated 5.94 million deaths from breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers were averted from 1975 to 2020 due ...
H5N1 bird flu is closer to gaining pandemic potential than we thought
A highly infectious strain of bird flu has been circulating worldwide since 2020ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images The H5N1 bird ...
The Dose Makes the Poison: Clarifying the Record on Fluoride
Wallace is an epidemiologist. Despite water fluoridation being widely regarded as one of the greatest public health achievements of the ...
Board Denies Doc a License for Third Time; Doc Sentenced to 10 Years; Nurse Gets 17
For the third time, the Iowa Board of Medicine has refused to issue a license to Brett Snodgrass, MD. The ...
Empagliflozin Linked to Lower Risk of Diabetic Retinopathy Progression
Use of empagliflozin (Jardiance) was not linked to a lower risk of incident nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy compared with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 ...
Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for COVID
It seems no one is taking COVID-19 seriously anymore, said Mollee Loveland, a nursing home aide who lives outside Pittsburgh. ...
Untangling GLP-1 Risks: Are Side Effects Overblown?
Jeremy Faust is editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and a ...
UnitedHealthcare CEO Kept a Low Profile. Then He Was Shot to Death in New York.
Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the U.S. but was unknown to millions of people his ...
CEO’s Killer Left Messages on Bullets; RFK Jr.’s Nonprofit; Splash Pad Diseases
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The words "deny," "defend," and "depose" were found on shell casings ...
Unusual Causes of Kidney Disease: Searching for ‘Zebras’
An old adage physicians are taught is that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think of “horses,” not “zebras.” Instead ...
