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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
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
Alcohol and Cancer Feb. 08, 2023
Now that Dry January is over, most participants who were "sober-curious" have resumed their familiar... 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
Good Things Come to Those Who Weight Jan. 04, 2023
OK, it's a new year, so this probably means you're back at the gym reintroducing yourself to staff. ... Read More
TB Effects TBD Dec. 28, 2022
This is one of those silver lining sorts of things: The COVID pandemic appears to have at least temp... 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
Fatherhood Changes Men's Brains Dec. 14, 2022
Various studies have shown that the brains of women who become biological mothers change: Structures... Read More
Amen to Good Heart Health Dec. 07, 2022
A new study suggests that participating in religious activities, from church services to private pra... 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
