Category: Health

By Melodie Narain-Blackwell, as told to Michele Jordan I am an educated woman of color with good insurance from a good family who ate healthy food. But it still took more than 30 years for me to be diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. A lot of times, people think a late diagnosis happens for someone without […]

PHOTO CREDIT: FatCamera / Getty Images   SOURCES: Mark Hutchinson, MD, FACSM, professor of orthopedics and sports medicine and head team physician, University of Illinois Chicago; president, ACSM Foundation, Chicago. Gene Shirokobrod, DPT, co-founder, Recharge, Ellicott City, MD. CDC: “How much physical activity do adults need?”  OrthoInfo: “Healthy Bones at Every Age.” ChoosePT: “Physical Therapy […]

Dec. 22, 2022 – Falling asleep later and waking up later this time of year? It could be you need to reset your sleep/wake clock. Going outside to get more daylight exposure – especially during the morning – might help, new evidence suggests.  Yes, the use of electric lights and screens in the evening can […]

It was a hot July day in Nashville. Sekou Writes, a 51-year-old writer based in New York, had just given a speech at a graduation ceremony for a youth summer program he had been leading. He stepped down from the podium when everything froze. “I dropped the [paper] program that I had been holding,” Writes […]

Dec. 21, 2022 – In some relationships, women are the heart, the vision, and the brains. In our marriage, my wife is the nose. “What happened to the milk that was in the fridge?” she’ll ask. “I drank it.” “Didn’t you notice it went bad?” Or …    “You were eating sardines again, weren’t you?” she’ll […]

Dec. 21, 2022 — A year ago in December, mapping specialist Whitney Tyshynski, 35, was working out 5 days a week with a personal trainer near her home in Alberta, Canada, doing 5k trail runs, lifting heavy weights, and feeling good. Then, in January she got COVID-19. The symptoms never went away. Nowadays, Tyshynski needs […]

For Christine “Cat” Parlee, who has stage IV metastatic melanoma, the Roots to Thrive program was a godsend. Not that she expects it to save her life: The probability of surviving advanced melanoma for 5 years is about 15%-20%, according to the American Cancer Society, and Parlee was diagnosed in 2017. But an innovative approach […]

[SYDNEY] A quick, affordable, non-invasive detection tool could help accelerate progress in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ target to eliminate malaria, say researchers who developed it. The WHO’s global technical strategy for malaria 2016–2030 aims to reduce malaria incidence and mortality rates by at least 75 per cent by 2025 and at least 90 per […]

Dec. 20, 2022 — Your local pharmacy is wiped out of over-the-counter children’s pain relievers — again. But before thoughts of runny noses, sleepless nights, and feverish kids threaten your holiday plans, parents, you do have some other options.  While there is no official shortage of Children’s Tylenol in the U.S., according to Johnson & […]

By Steven Reinberg  HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Deaths of teens from drug overdoses soared starting in late 2019, and though they appear to be on the decline, they remain much higher than in 2019, U.S. health officials report. Most of these deaths are due to illegally made fentanyl mixed with […]