April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month, a time to come together to raise awareness and advance research toward a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Estimates suggest that Parkinson’s affects nearly 1 million people in the United States and more than 6 million people worldwide. What Is Parkinson’s Disease? According to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Parkinson’s disease […]
Timing is everything. And according to a new study by scientists at Mass General Brigham, that includes when you eat your food for optimal heart health, too. As Science Daily reports, on April 8, researchers published their findings in the journal Nature Communications, assessing whether limiting meals to daytime hours could protect heart and blood vessel health, […]
Hope you weren’t enjoying some creamy butter on toast when you read this headline. As Delish reports, uber-popular dairy brand Cabot Creamery issued a recall on almost 2,000 pounds of its Extra Creamy Premium Sea Salted Butter due to contamination with elevated levels of coliform. What is coliform, you may ask? Well, you may regret that question. Coliform […]
An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. In a new study led by Stanford Medicine, researchers analyzing the health records of Welsh older adults discovered that those who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia […]
Stress can be debilitating, and it can cause and/or aggravate health problems. And since stress is a normal part of human existence — nobody is immune to it — it’s important to arm ourselves with knowledge so that we recognize when stress rears its ugly head. (Amazingly, we don’t always notice it’s happening to us.) […]
Many of us try to suppress the urge to blurt out an expletive when something goes wrong. But the instinct may actually be useful: Research has found that using profanity can have beneficial effects on people’s stress, anxiety, and depression. In fact, as Time magazine reports, there are numerous potential physical, psychological, and social perks […]
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the epicenter of Texas’ still-growing measles outbreak on Sunday, the same day a funeral was held for a second young child who was not vaccinated and died from a measles-related illness. As AP News reports, Kennedy said in a social media post that he was working to “control the […]
Fewer than 80 triple organ transplants have been attempted in the United States, and for the first time, the rare procedure was successfully performed on Long Island. As CBS News reports, a beloved husband now has a new heart, liver and kidney. “Miracles exist” Sergio Arias Cestoni, 47, had to stop working at his Long […]
During the first full week of April each year, the American Public Health Association (APHA) brings together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week as a time to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation. For three decades, National Public Health Week has been […]
In 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). This report is a vital component in the process the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and HHS will follow to develop the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), which serve as the foundation for […]