Category: Health

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 […]

By Sunir Garg, MD, as told to Hallie Levine Diabetic retinopathy, a type of diabetic eye disease, is one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. Despite this, almost 40% of people with diabetes don’t get an annual eye exam. But these screening tests are key, since they can prevent vision loss […]

Habits are like being on autopilot, and they’re the key to reaching your goals.  Habits are not resolutions: Those are the commitments to change you make on January 1, your birthday, or when you’ve had some sort of wake-up call. Habits aren’t behaviors, either. Instead, habits are impulses that drive you to do certain things […]

Dec. 19, 2022 — Alexander Truong, MD, has been seeing long COVID patients for more than 2 years but thought the numbers would have significantly dwindled by now. Instead, a steady flow of patients still shows up at the Emory Executive Park post-COVID clinic he and a colleague launched in fall 2020 in Atlanta. And […]

By Cara Murez  HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The holiday season is filled with to-do lists, but one should rise to the top: Take care of your heart. Whether from stress, cold weather or falling out of good habits in terms of eating, sleeping and drinking, heart attack rates spike as […]

By Amy Norton  HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Many American women have to travel long distances to reach the nearest mammography center, a new study finds — raising questions about whether that keeps some from receiving breast cancer screening. Researchers found that 8.2 million women had limited access to mammography screening […]

By Rebecca Haberman, MD, as told to Stephanie Watson Psoriatic disease isn’t curable, but it is becoming more treatable. While not everyone can achieve clear skin or pain-free joints, things are improving with each new drug that we have to treat them with. Our stable of drugs is growing exponentially, which is really important where one […]

By Nilanjana Bose, MD, as told to Susan Bernstein I am an adult rheumatologist, so I see patients who are 18 and above, with the whole gamut of rheumatologic conditions. Every patient I see is different. For patients with classic psoriatic disease, skin psoriasis symptoms often occur before their arthritis symptoms happen. These two conditions […]

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