BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters.Louisiana has confirmed nine cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections this year, the state’s health department said last week in a news release. All were hospitalized, and five … Read more
25. “GLP-1s or Ozempic.” —u/VJ_KEVLAR”It’s wild how angrily people are reacting to comments like this. If you think Ozempic or similar drugs are worth it for you, you do you! I do believe that we have not fully evaluated either the short- or long-term consequences of drugs like this when used on a large population.To … Read more
Don’t flush this nutty allergy treatment down the toilet. “Poop pills” aren’t a new treatment for various ailments, with “crapsules” being used to reduce toxic side effects of cancer medications and even potentially increasing the odds of surviving pancreatic cancer. Now, new research has found they could be a life-saving treatment for the millions of … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Strengthening the core improves balance and stability, which supports movement and physical performance, experts say.While traditional abdominal exercises can be effective, one yoga pose may offer added benefits. Boat pose, or Navasana, forms the body into a “V” and challenges multiple muscles involved in core stability.Melissa Leach, … Read more
Dr. Stacy Norton was only 7 years old when her mother died of colon cancer, one of several family members struck by aggressive tumors at unusually young ages. Decades later, Norton rolled up her sleeve to help test if a new kind of vaccine might protect her and her own children from cancer. The Houston … Read more
“They can still get a few minutes of exposure – [but it’s] best to have more skin exposed for a shorter time, and do so more often, than for a longer time less frequently,” she says. This is most effective nearer midday, where there is more UVB relative to the amount of UVA, compared to … Read more
Age is the risk factor everyone assumes is doing most of the work in dementia, the one variable nobody thinks they can do anything about. The 2024 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, the most comprehensive review of the evidence to date, complicates that assumption considerably. Nearly half of all future dementia cases, the commission concluded, … Read more
The story has circulated online for over a decade in roughly the same form. A young man is knocked unconscious. Inside that unconsciousness, an entire life unfolds: he meets someone, marries her, has two children, grows old inside a relationship that feels, in every sensory detail, completely real. Then one day he notices something wrong … Read more
How weight-loss medication is changing relationships with alcohol BBCDurham VA joins national trial testing GLP-1 medications for alcohol use disorder ABC11 NewsSemaglutide: A New Treatment Option for AUD? MedscapeOzempic Could Fight Addiction Too – Scientists Finally Know How scitechdaily.comA New Use for a Familiar Medication? | North Shore Journal | Two Harbors, Silver Bay & … Read more
WICHITA, Kansas — A Goddard mother is fighting for her life after a spider bite at Cheney Lake turned into a life-changing medical emergency.On May 28, Britagne Miller said she and her family were at the lake enjoying a campfire when multiple spiders crawled all over her, leaving bites all over her body. After four … Read more