Health
Flu Season Raged Over Thanksgiving
The CDC reports that hospitalizations for confirmed flu cases nearly doubled during Thanksgiving week.
Few Americans Understand Alcohol’s Impact on Cancer Risk: Survey
Alcohol increases the risk of cancer, but some Americans think it does the opposite, a new study shows.
How Neuromyelitis Optica Progressed for Me
A woman with NMO and a doctor who treats it talk about what it’s like to live with the rare ...
Loving a Fake Person: Redefining Romance for the Virtual Age
A team of scientists in Japan hope to pioneer a new field exploring how romance with a virtual being could ...
‘Something Good’ After Tragic Loss: Donating Brain Cancer Tissue
Families of children with brain cancer are often unaware of the option of postmortem tissue donation, and many have expressed ...
New Study on Vitamin D Combating COVID
Optimizing your vitamin D level is a foundational element to lower your risk of COVID-19. This simple step will also ...
How Vitamin C Is Effective in Treating Inflammatory Issues
Vitamin C is an essential water-soluble nutrient that’s also known as ascorbic acid. The body uses it as an antioxidant ...
Vitamins C and D Finally Adopted as Coronavirus Treatment
Remember when Washington Post reporters were boldly declaring that vitamins C and D could not (and should not) be used ...
FDA Moves to Ease Restrictions on Gay Men Giving Blood
Currently, FDA policy does not allow blood donation from men who have had sex with other men in the past ...
AI in Health Care: No, the Robots Are Not Taking Over
AI and machine learning remain technologies that add to human know-how. For example, AI can help track a patient over ...
Your (Afro-Textured) Hair Is Beautiful: The Trauma of Texturism
In our new docu-series “Color by WebMD: WebMD’s Exploration of Race and Mental Health,” we’ll be diving into texturism and ...
I Have Type 2 Diabetes – Here’s What I Eat in a Week
“What do you eat?” I hear this question a lot – both from people who have type 2 diabetes and ...
Banking on a Shot in the Dark
In the video above, Del Bigtree with The Highwire reviews how the precautionary principle and long-standing safety guidelines in medicine ...
New Thought Police NewsGuard Is Owned by Big Pharma
The media is using a variety of tactics to restrict your access to the truth from websites like mine, including ...
Emily Oster: Killing Us Softly With a Missionary Mind
This story is about a centuries-old malaise that is still killing us today, increasingly so. I am not talking about ...
Advances in Handling Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD)
An expert in treatment-resistant depression shares successful treatment strategies doctors can try to help with TRD.
Managing Treatment-Resistant Depression: One Person’s Story
Learn how someone with treatment-resistant depression used therapy, community, and self-advocacy to help manage her condition.
Black Patients Fare Worse Than White Patients After Angioplasty, Stents
A new study finds Black adults who undergo a common procedure to open up clogged arteries are readmitted to the ...
Amazon Clinic: What You Need to Know
Amazon is encouraging patients to “skip the waiting room” with the launch of Amazon Clinic, a virtual health care service ...
Move Faster, Live Longer? A Little More Effort Goes a Long Way
Boosting the intensity of your workouts even a little may significantly reduce your risk of heart disease and add years ...
AI ‘Simulants’ Could Save Time and Money on New Medications
Second in a series examining the impact and potential of artificial intelligence in health care.
G20 Signs Declaration for International Vaccine Passport
As noted by former U.S. Rep. Dr. Ron Paul in the video above, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab ...
Is It Time to Start Growing Your Own Food?
There are many reasons more people are buying seeds and planting their own gardens. One of the main reasons is ...
Red Meat Is Not a Health Risk
Scientists from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) published a systematic review of the literature ...
Can AI Drive More Diversity in Drug Development?
A first in a series examining the impact and potential of artificial intelligence in health care.
Heart Disease Deaths Spiked During COVID
Deaths from heart disease and stroke among adults living in the United States have been on the decline since 2010. ...
As Kids’ Obesity Rises, Brain Health Declines: Study
Kids who are overweight or obese often struggle with school work, and now new research provides clues on how excess ...
The TikTok Trend That Triggered a Diabetes Drug Shortage
Ozempic, a weekly injection that helps boost insulin sensitivity in people with type 2 diabetes, also suppresses appetite, which leads ...
U.S. Flu Activity Already at Mid-Season Levels
Outpatient visit and hospitalization rates are the highest in over a decade.
