Why Mammograms May Be Good for Your Heart
The study focused on what’s known as breast arterial calcification, calcium deposits within breast tissue that look like white flecks on a mammogram.iStock Source link
Marking 2 Years Since the Start of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Since the pandemic started, most Americans feel like their lives have changed forever.Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Source link
Even Mild COVID-19 May Change the Brain, Study Finds
Brain scans revealed tissue damage mostly in areas of the brain related to smell.Getty Images Source link
Channing Tatum Says His ‘Magic Mike’ Body Isn’t a Healthy One — What Experts Say
“I don’t know how people that work a 9-to-5 actually stay in shape, because it’s my full-time job and I can barely do it,” Channing Tatum said.Getty Images; Alamy; Canva Source link
Young People Are Using TikTok to Diagnose Themselves With Serious Mental Health Disorders. What’s Behind This Trend?
Young people are turning to TikTok to self-diagnose serious mental health conditions such as borderline personality disorder and ADHD.Crispin la Valiente/Getty Images Source link
Raw Veggies Beat Cooked for Heart Health
The people who ate the most raw vegetables in the study did a lot of other things that are associated with better cardiovascular health outcomes and that may have made the impact of veggies on their own seem much smaller.Claudia Totir/Getty Images Source link
FDA Approves Pacritinib for Treatment of Myelofibrosis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for the drug pacritinib (Vonjo) for patients with myelofibrosis (MF), a rare blood cancer that leads to impaired production of normal blood cells. Pacritinib is expected to fill an important treatment gap in that it’s suitable for patients whose severely low platelet count makes them ineligible for the other two drugs — ruxolitinib (Jakafi) and fedratinib (Inrebic) — approved to treat the disease."Limited treatment options have rendered this disease as an area of urgent unmet medical need. I am pleased to see that a new, efficacious, and safe treatment option is now available to these patients," said John Mascarenhas, MD, director of the Center of Excellence for Blood Cancers and Myeloid Disorders at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in New York…
Vuity: A Novel Alternative to Reading Glasses for Some
Some middle-aged people who need reading glasses may be able to use a new type of eye drop instead.Adobe Stock Source link
More Than Half of Women Over Age 50 Have Thinning Hair
The most common type of hair loss in women is called androgenetic alopecia or female pattern hair loss.Sol de Zuasnabar Brebbia/Getty Images Source link
U.S. Maternal Death Rate Rose Significantly in 2020
Black women had the highest maternal mortality rate, with 55.3 deaths for every 100,000 live births, an increase of 26 percent over the previous year.Getty Images Source link