Hiking and camping fanatics know all too well the risks of a tick bite. Ticks are tiny but carry mighty illnesses, including Lyme disease. They thrive in heavily wooded areas across the U.S. and although there’s greater risk in the northeast, the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic regions, cases of tick-borne diseases are reported in every […]
A proposal by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy to place warning labels on social media platforms is finding support among doctors and advocates who are concerned that the sites contribute to mental health issues among teens. As CBS News reports, Murthy called for the warnings in an opinion piece in the New York Times last week. The […]
As new variants of the coronavirus continue to gain traction, doctors and researchers are bracing for a potential rise in cases this summer. As the New York Times reports, two of these variants, KP.3 and KP.2, now account for nearly half of all cases, and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) […]
Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. As AP News reports, the nine justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food and […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers and retailers to not “eat, sell or serve” any of Diamond Shruumz-brand’s microdosing chocolate bars, infused cones and micro dose and macro dose gummies after people across eight states were left hospitalized. As CNN reports, twelve people became ill after eating Diamond Shruumz’s products, the FDA […]
An FDA panel has voted to endorse Donanemab, a monoclonal antibody that is designed to slow the development of early symptomatic Alzheimer disease. As Pharmacy Times reports, the FDA’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee voted 11-0 on the effectiveness of drug, which is manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company. If Donanemab is approved […]
A sexually transmitted ringworm caused by a rare fungus has been reported for the first time in the United States. As NBC News reports, the case study, published last week in JAMA Dermatology by doctors at NYU Langone Health in New York City, comes as clinicians worldwide increasingly say they’re having trouble treating fungal infections. “We think […]
Another human case of bird flu has been detected in a dairy farm worker in Michigan—though the cases aren’t connected—and this is the first person in the U.S. to report respiratory symptoms connected to bird flu, though their symptoms are “resolving,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The global outbreak of this H5N1 […]
In 2020, a study was led by Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists, as part of an ongoing effort to re-evaluate the number of calories eaters derive from popular foods. This particular experiment is focused on how the human body digests lentils and chickpeas, but it builds on prior ones conducted on almonds, walnuts, pistachios, and […]
The number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) around the world is increasing and is a “major concern” for health officials, according to a new report published this month from the World Health Organization (WHO). As ABC News reports, the report found four curable STIs — chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis — are responsible for more than 1 million infections […]