All kinds of natural disasters — hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, dangerous heat waves — pose substantial risks to older adults. Yet, not enough seniors prepare for these events in advance, … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
Especially for Black patients, inaccurate readings have imperiled care and may have contributed to deaths during the pandemic, experts told an advisory panel. View original article Contributor: Christina Jewett
Bipartisan legislation in the House targets not only the online activity of individual users but also the website operators hosting it. View original article Contributor: Gabriel J.X. Dance and Megan Twohey
Could the disease be back? View original article Contributor: Lisa Sanders, M.D.
Dr. David McDermott started treating people with kidney cancer in the 1990s. Back then, he says the prognosis for most of his patients with advanced disease was dispiritingly grim. “We had very few treatment options, and the survival for patients was a year or less,” he recalls. “Radiation and chemotherapy were tried, but they didn’t … Read more
Hebah Arroyo, an Illinois nurse practitioner, began working for the startup Done in the spring of 2020. She was drawn to the San Francisco-based company’s promise: to provide stigma-free online ADHD care, including prescription refills and virtual sessions with clinicians, for as little as $79 a month. “It was my first telehealth role,” she says, … Read more
On top of continued concerns about COVID-19 and the anticipated wave of flu cases this fall and winter, health experts are also confronting another infectious disease: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). RSV typically strikes during the colder months, when people gather indoors and are more likely to spread disease through close contact and respiratory droplets. It’s … Read more
“A hyperactive immune system may have been great” during the 14th-century plague, “but in the environment today it might not be as helpful,” a researcher said. View original article Contributor: Jennifer Hassan
In this episode of Revolution Health Radio, strength and conditioning coach Graham Tuttle, aka the Barefoot Sprinter, joins Chris to discuss how our feet lay the groundwork for our health and athletic performance, why traditional shoes are bad for us, and how we can go barefoot to correct movement dysfunction and relieve our ailments. The … Read more
New data suggests that abortion has declined about 2 percent in the U.S. since the end of Roe, accounting for people who traveled across state lines or ordered pills online. View original article Contributor: Aatish Bhatia, Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz