When it comes to flu shots, earlier the better The Columbian Tracking Tucson senior citizens getting flu shots KVOA Tucson News Health officials urge residents to get flu shots, open clinics across the area KMOV.com Full coverage Source link
Credit: CC0 Public Domain At the 2018 Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Brigham and Women’s Hospital investigators from the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group presented diabetes-related findings from CAMELLIA-TIMI 61, a clinical trial of overweight and obese patients designed to test lorcaserin, a weight loss drug manufactured by […]
Good afternoon, readers. This is Sy. The controversial fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court is raging on. It’s a thorny issue that raises plenty of passions. But, politics aside, it’s also brought up important questions about the pervasiveness—and lasting effects—of sexual assault in America at large. And a new study published in […]
‘Diet’ and ‘Zero’ drinks are marketed as a healthy alternative – but the sweetener-laden pop could actually carry serious health risks, researchers warn. In experiments, researchers tested six common sweeteners (legal in the UK) and found that they could be toxic to the bacteria in our guts. That could cause a ‘wide range of health […]
A PBS documentary reveals the identity — and an artist’s digitally created image — or the woman whose well-preserved body was found in a metal coffin in Queens seven years ago. (Impossible Factual/Joe Mullins) On the afternoon of Oct. 4, 2011, a backhoe dug into an excavation pit in Elmhurst, Queens, and struck iron. Construction […]
SALT LAKE CITY — For the first time in seven years, heroin overdose deaths decreased in Utah in 2017, state leaders said Monday. According to the state’s calculations, there were 159 fatal overdoses connected to heroin in 2017, a 14.5 percent decrease from the year before, said Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox. Fatal overdoses stemming […]
People whose BMI, systolic BP, cholesterol and/or blood glucose levels fluctuate may be at greater risk for MI, stroke and all-cause mortality than those with more stable readings, according to a study published in Circulation. “Health care providers should pay attention to the variability in measurements of a patient’s blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels […]
A new drug used to help prevent migraines in adults was just approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, WAFB reports. The new drug is called Emgality and is used specifically to prevent migraines, not to treat the pain caused by them. The list price for the drug is $575 per month. That […]
More than two decades ago Chung To was a young, high-flying Wall Street investment banker with a flat in New York City. He then transferred to Hong Kong, the city of his birth, and worked in senior management at a Swiss bank. But a trip in 2001 to a poor village in central China’s Henan […]
The 2018-2019 flu season has officially arrived, the Food and Drug Administration announced this week. And after last year’s flu killed 80,000 people—the highest U.S. influenza death toll in 40 years—many are questioning how effective the flu shot really is. The short answer: No one really knows. The long answer: This year’s flu shot is […]
