A few years ago, one of the trainers at my local gym approached me during my workout with an enticing offer: Would I like a free personal training session? Why not, I thought. As a marathoner, I’m always looking for advice on how to improve my strength routine. We talkedContinue Reading
A new study adds to mounting evidence showing that drugs like Ozempic don’t just treat diabetes — they can also prevent it. The new paper, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed that the compound in the diabetes drug Mounjaro and the weight loss drug Zepbound slashedContinue Reading
Routine childhood vaccination rates have been dropping across the U.S. and vaccine-preventable childhood diseases have been rising. Rustam Shaimov/Getty Images Rustam Shaimov/Getty Images President-elect Trump says he’s going to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild on health.” That has many pediatricians nervous, because of RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine rhetoric. WhenContinue Reading
A homeless encampment in Los Angeles in July 2024. Qian Weizhon/VCG via Getty Images Qian Weizhon/VCG via Getty Images Donald Trump has promised a law-and-order approach to policy of all kinds — including the question of how to help people struggling with mental illness, substance use disorder and homelessness. InContinue Reading
In high school, Sophie Didier started falling behind. She found it difficult to concentrate on her schoolwork, felt restless in class and often got in trouble for talking too much. “I had a teacher that used to give me suckers so that I would shut up,” she said. At 15,Continue Reading
Tell someone you are diabetic and their first response will be advice to stop consuming sugar. People often assume that eating too much sugar directly leads to diabetes, but the relationship between sugar intake and diabetes is complex. You must know that while sugar consumption is associated with diabetes risk,Continue Reading
The Justice Department and four Democratic state attorneys general on Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against the giant UnitedHealth Group in an attempt to block its $3.3 billion deal to take over Amedisys, a large home health company. “Unless this $3.3 billion transaction is stopped, UnitedHealth Group will further extendContinue Reading
Diwali is just around the corner. Time to clean up your homes, light them up, buy new clothes and be prepared to devour the sweet treats of Diwali. Sweet treats, did we say? But what about those suffering from diabetes? For diabetic patients, enjoying these delights can be impossible asContinue Reading
Practicing yoga from home with online instruction proved beneficial to a group of people with chronic low back pain. AndreyPopov/iStockphoto/Getty Images AndreyPopov/iStockphoto/Getty Images Online yoga classes relieved chronic low back pain and slashed the need for pain-relief medications, a new study shows. Back pain sufferers who took 12 weeks ofContinue Reading
Follow live updates as Trump makes his cabinet picks and Republican senators choose a party leader. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been unflinching in his attacks on the Food and Drug Administration in recent weeks, saying he wants to fire agency experts who have taken action against treatments that haveContinue Reading
