Scientists Fear What’s Next for Public Health if RFK Jr. Is Allowed To ‘Go...
By Arthur Allen/Originally Published November 14, 2024
Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well...
Number of Whooping Cough Cases on Rise Nationally
By Jessica Pasley for Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Newswise — Whooping cough is making a comeback, and medical providers say the highly contagious bacterial infection...
Rest as Resistance
By Evette Dionne
In 1835, as legal slavery flourished in the South, abolitionists—who morally opposed the institution and sought to end it—began circulating pamphlets. Abolitionist...
Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress.
By Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam
KINGSTREE, S.C. — One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled...
People with Type 2 Diabetes Who Eat Low-Carb May Be Able to Discontinue Medication
By Endocrine Society
Newswise— WASHINGTON—Adults with type 2 diabetes on a low-carbohydrate diet may see benefits to their beta-cell function allowing them to better manage...
Dentists Are Pulling ‘Healthy’ and Treatable Teeth To Profit From Implants, Experts Warn
By Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, CBS News
Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, and others were stained or crooked. Ashamed, she smiled with...
Feeling Constipated? You May Have a Higher Risk for Heart Disease
By American Physiological Society
Newswise — Rockville, Md. (Oct. 29, 2024)—People with constipation may have a higher risk of having a heart attack or stroke,...
U.S. Infant Mortality Increased 7% in Months Following Dobbs
By Ohio State University
Newswise — U.S. babies died at a higher rate in the months following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...
Millions of Aging Americans Are Facing Dementia by Themselves
By Judith Graham/KFF Health News
Sociologist Elena Portacolone was taken aback. Many of the older adults in San Francisco she visited at home for a...
A 15-year-old designed a smartwatch to detect stroke risk
By Maiysha Kai/Originally published by thegrio
A New Orleans teen is aiming to change health outcomes with a potentially lifesaving invention. As reported by People,...
