Month: July 2022

First U.S. case of polio in nearly a decade confirmed in unvaccinated 20-year-old in New York state, who traveled abroad this year. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. View original article Contributor: Knvul Sheikh

Q. My 17-year-old daughter would like to do her rhinoplasty. I am reluctant to let her do her nose because of her age and I do not feel she is … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Q. I’m an active 55-year-old man who works out regularly. Recently, I have gotten into cycling and have gradually increased my mileage weekly. This weekend, I rode at an increased … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

As of early June, four times as many Americans aged 75 to 84 were dying each week from the virus, compared with people two decades younger. View original article Contributor: Benjamin Mueller

The Omicron variant is evolving in ways that make it better able to evade the body’s immune defenses. But booster shots still help prevent severe illness. View original article Contributor: Apoorva Mandavilli

As COVID-19 consumed the U.S. in 2020, another health crisis was also raging: the drug overdose epidemic. Nearly 92,000 people died from drug overdoses that year, a 30% increase from 2019. While overdose deaths rose across the population, the increase in deaths was far steeper among Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native people, according to … Read more

If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, know that you’ve got plenty of company. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) reports that in 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, 37.3 million adults in the U.S.—about 11.3% of the population—had the chronic condition, and that number continues to grow. Type 1 diabetes develops when … Read more

U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax—a more traditional kind of vaccine, health officials said Tuesday. Regulators authorized the nation’s first so-called protein vaccine against COVID-19 last week, but the final hurdle was a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “If you have … Read more

Last summer, in the Pacific Northwest, record temperatures melted power cables and buckled roads. Seattle reached a record high of 108 degrees and millions of area residents struggled under the weight of unprecedented heat. Just this year, New York and Boston experienced their earliest heat advisories on record and heat waves are again hitting the … Read more