Losing weight is no cake walk and everyone who has ever attempted to lose those extra kilos has realized it at some point or other. Sweating it out in the gym is important, but a healthy diet is even more important than getting your daily workout. There’s never one fixed answer to the question of […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Department for Public Health is recommending all people in several counties get vaccinated against hepatitis A because of an ongoing outbreak. Residents of Jefferson, Bullitt, Hardin, Greenup, Carter and Boyd counties are urged to receive the vaccinations. There have been 214 cases of hepatitis A reported in Jefferson County. The […]
Alzheimer’s disease, affecting some 47 million people worldwide, for now remains an irreversible and fatal brain disorder. Taking a proactive approach, an Israeli brain researcher is developing a vaccine against this devastating disease. Most vaccines work by mounting an immune response toward a weakened pathogen to boost the immune system’s ability to fight the real […]
People who get plenty of exercise are less likely to have heart attacks and strokes than their inactive counterparts, even when they have a genetic predisposition for heart disease, a UK study suggests. Among roughly half a million people in the UK, those with greater grip strength, more physical activity and better cardiovascular fitness had a […]
Four baboons escaped from a primate research facility Saturday. Three of the baboons were caught within 30 minutes, the other is still on the loose but believed to be on the facility’s property, according to WOAI. PRIMATE ON THE RUN: Pictures sent in by a KSAT 12 viewer show what appears to be a primate running […]
(Baltimore) — On a Baltimore street corner, public health workers hand out a life-saving overdose antidote to residents painfully familiar with the ravages of America’s opioid epidemic. But the training wraps up quickly; all the naloxone inhalers are claimed within 20 minutes. “We could’ve easily handed out hundreds of doses today. But we only had […]
Dr. Kenneth Choquette knows the kind of chronic pain his patients endure every day. Without opioid pills, some cannot work, sleep or do simple chores like wash the dishes. “If I take pain medication away from a patient who is properly taking it for the right reasons, it means they hurt more,” said Choquette, a […]
Wednesday’s town hall at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy focused on educating the Rutgers community on the opioid epidemic and how to move toward rehabilitative efforts outside the doctor’s office. A panel of doctors and professionals with expertise in the field of opioid addiction and prescription spoke for approximately 2 hours to inform an […]
Stokkete/Shutterstock Being a night owl comes with a 10% higher risk of death than being a morning person, according to a new study. The study also found that night owls have a higher risk for a variety of physical and mental ailments. But being a night owl or morning person is largely a biological fact, […]
SAN DIEGO — A Lakeside gang member was charged Wednesday in the death of a 25-year-old woman he’s accused of selling fentanyl. The woman was found dead from an overdose in her La Mesa home on January 23. Uriah Odish is the fourth suspected drug dealer since January to face federal charges in Southern California […]
