In 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, recognizing the significant challenges that loneliness, social isolation and mental health issues pose to college-age Americans in the post-pandemic world, conducted a listening … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
A University of Miami hospital surgeon is among three doctors named as defendants in the Baylor College of Medicine’s recent $15 million settlement with the Justice Department. The surgeons, along … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
NEW YORK — A state-by-state report released Thursday by a private foundation casts the spotlight on widening disparities in women’s health and reproductive care across the United States. Produced by … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
Women who struggle with endometriosis may be vulnerable to another health danger: New research shows they are about four times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than women who don’t … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
Kids whose families frequently move have a significantly higher risk of depression later in life, a new study warns. Children who move once between the ages of 10 and 15 … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
Hispanic people — particularly those without insurance — are less likely to get the additional care needed to recover from a stroke, a new study finds. Hispanic folks are less … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
Alix Popham played in two rugby World Cups and won a Six Nations Grand Slam before retiring in 2011 as a professional in the rough-and-tumble game. By 2020, he had … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
As patients consider drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro to treat obesity, experts say the choices are not so simple. View original article Contributor: Gina Kolata
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has spent 30 years figuring out why people behave so strangely. His specialty is treating those who have endured traumas so horrific—war, carnage, incredible pain that they couldn’t stop—that their brains have not been able to fully process them, and their bodies have reacted to their brain’s precarious state in … Read more
When researchers began studying Long COVID, after it became clear in 2020 that some people don’t recover from COVID-19 right away, some estimated that roughly a third of people who caught the virus experienced long-term symptoms. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But that was years ago, at a time before vaccines and endless iterations of Omicron, when most … Read more