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The Other Half Is Crazy Oct. 25, 2023
A Lancet Psychiatry study that analyzed responses from a 21-year-long World Health Organization surv... Read More
Postpartum Depression Drug Oct. 18, 2023
One in eight women experiences symptoms of postpartum depression following childbirth, including fee... Read More
It Might Be a Long Weight Oct. 11, 2023
Weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy are proving extremely effective and popular, but they'r... Read More
Dead on Arrival Aug. 30, 2023
Maternal deaths during pregnancy or in the year after childbirth are on average 10 times higher in t... Read More
Keeping Abreast May. 24, 2023
The story is familiar: a diagnosis of breast cancer, followed by surgery to remove existing, low-ris... Read More
It's Hard To Be a Teen Girl These Days May. 10, 2023
New data suggests teen girls in American are being swept up in a wave of sadness and trauma, reports... Read More
Shady Side of the Heat May. 03, 2023
Climate change has resulted in more extreme weather, including hotter, longer heat waves, which in t... Read More
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
Statins Are Not a Pain Apr. 21, 2021
One of the alleged side effects of statins — a popular class of drugs used to prevent deaths f... Read More
Those Lyin' Eyes Mar. 24, 2021
The Eagles may have been singing about something else, but new research suggests that eyes are not n... Read More
Cancer and the Heart Feb. 17, 2021
For patients who survive cancer, there may be lingering, unsuspected repercussions. New data from th... Read More
Masking an Unfortunate Truth Feb. 03, 2021
President Joe Biden has asked Americans to embrace mask-wearing for at least the first 100 days of h... Read More
Oxygen Bias Jan. 27, 2021
Pulse oximeters are devices clipped painlessly onto fingers to externally measure blood oxygen level... Read More
Surgery and Birthdays Don't Mix Jan. 20, 2021
A recent study found that older patients who underwent surgical procedures on a surgeon's birthday w... Read More
Is That OK? No, It's Not Jan. 13, 2021
Winter season or not, the color of nasal mucus can sometimes tell you a lot about your current state... Read More
Higher the Age, Lower the Cholesterol Dec. 23, 2020
A pair of new studies suggest that patients older than 75 may benefit from cholesterol-lowering medi... Read More
Take It With a Pinch of Salt Dec. 09, 2020
A growing number of commercial and homemade remedies suggest that you can control mosquitoes (OK, no... Read More
Do You Have a Donor Card? Nov. 13, 2020
When I was a young adult driving in California, I rarely gave my donor card a thought. Back then, it... Read More
The Fungus Among Us Nov. 11, 2020
Viruses and bacteria aren't the only microbial pathogens that plague us. Fungal diseases abound, too... Read More
