Category: Health

Nov. 30, 2022 – If there’s one public health message Americans have heard loud and clear, it’s this one:  Move more. Take more steps.  Spend more time doing physical activity – at least 150 minutes a week, according to the latest guidelines.  But hearing the message doesn’t mean we act on it. A whopping 25% of […]

Nov. 30, 2022 – Artificial intelligence is poised to make clinical trials and drug development faster, cheaper, and more efficient. Part of this strategy is creating “synthetic control arms” that use data to create “simulants,” or computer-generated “patients” in a trial.  This way, researchers can enroll fewer real people and recruit enough participants in half […]

By Alan Mozes  HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Black adults who undergo a common procedure to open up clogged arteries are readmitted to the hospital more often than their white peers. They’re also more likely to die in the years after treatment, a new study finds.  Researchers looked at how patients […]

When Imadé Borha graduated from Columbia University in 2015 with a master’s degree in nonfiction creative writing, she thought the last thing she’d have to worry about was finding a job. It didn’t happen. “That was around the time of the first suicide attempt,” recalls Borha, 34, now a Durham, NC-based communications professional for a […]

By Gonzalo Laje, MD, as told to Kara Mayer Robinson I’m a psychiatrist, board certified in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. After my own personal experience with depression during my 20s, I’ve been on a lifelong quest to both understand and help others. I spent almost a decade at the National Institutes of Health searching […]

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By Cara Murez and Robin Foster  HealthDay Reporters THURSDAY, Dec. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) – U.S. Food & Drug Administration policies that have limited blood donations from men who have sex with men may soon ease. At the moment, FDA policy does not allow blood donation from men who have had sex with other men […]

Dec. 1, 2022 – It’s common for many people to fear the unknown, and exactly how artificial intelligence might transform the health care and medical experience is no exception.  People might be afraid, for example, that AI will remove all human interaction from health care in the future. Not true, say the experts. Doctors and […]

In our third episode in our four-part series, we’ll be diving into texturism and its impact on many Black and Latino individuals. We’ll also look at ways to gain more appreciation for your naturally beautiful coils and curls.  Dec. 1, 2022 – It’s your first day of work at a new job, and you’re a […]

Dec. 2, 2022 – Michael Gustafson was athletic, a state gymnastics champ before being diagnosed with brain cancer when he was 10.  While the diagnosis meant he had to give up gymnastics, Michael went on to play basketball and baseball, run cross-country, and, later, play golf. “Even when he could only walk four or five […]