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Browsing the News Apr. 26, 2023
No doubt you've asked yourself (perhaps while looking in a mirror) — why do I have eyebrows? S... Read More
Watch This Ad, Buy This Drug Apr. 19, 2023
Drug ads on TV are almost always annoying, and frightening, too, if you listen to the mandatory disc... Read More
Read This Now; Don't Wait Apr. 12, 2023
No one thinks procrastinating is a good thing. Well, almost no one. But a new study shows how it rea... Read More
The Fall Season, Year-round Apr. 05, 2023
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is 81 years old. His recent fall, resulting in a concussion a... Read More
Vaping and Oral Health Mar. 29, 2023
There's a growing body of evidence that vaping (e-cigarettes) is associated with poorer health, incl... Read More
Life Is a Marathon Mar. 22, 2023
But extending it might just involve short bursts of activity. A recent study found that brief bouts ... Read More
A Different Kind of Twindemic Mar. 15, 2023
Twin births have been in decline in the U.S. for the last decade, falling roughly 3% per year, after... Read More
Medicaid Update Mar. 08, 2023
The Affordable Care Act, originally passed in 2010 and sometimes called Obamacare, created access to... Read More
At-home Flu Tests Mar. 01, 2023
By now, many (perhaps most) Americans have used and become comfortable with the idea of at-home test... Read More
Losing Sleep Over Glaucoma Feb. 22, 2023
When glaucoma is undetected and untreated, it can lead to blindness from the progressive loss of ret... Read More
Drug Price Cap, but Not Hospital or Doctor Bills Feb. 01, 2023
More than 63 million Americans are covered by Medicare. Here's the good news: By 2025, they'll pay n... Read More
The 'M' in MD Doesn't Mean 'Man' Jan. 25, 2023
A recent study found that women physicians were more than twice as likely as their male colleagues t... Read More
The Scoop on Scoping Jan. 18, 2023
The first randomized trial of colonoscopy screening is out and, well, it's a complicated picture. Th... Read More
Windows to the Heart Jan. 11, 2023
Using artificial intelligence tools, researchers studied retinal scans of 88,000 participants in a s... Read More
Noncommunicable Diseases Communicated Dec. 21, 2022
We tend to pay more attention to contagious diseases like COVID, tuberculosis and AIDS, which infect... Read More
C as in Checkup Nov. 30, 2022
Hepatitis C can be a devastating disease, leading to liver failure, cancer and death, if untreated. ... Read More
Lowered Expectations Nov. 23, 2022
Compared to people in other middle- and high-income countries, Americans die young — and somet... Read More
We All Speak Baby Talk Oct. 26, 2022
After analyzing 1,600 samples of speech and song from 21 societies on six continents, researchers ha... Read More
Violent Crime and Heart Disease Oct. 19, 2022
It's more correlation than causation, but a new study found that deaths from heart disease dropped i... Read More
