Category: Health & Wellness

This New Smart Ring can Track Your Metabolism

As Wareable reports, Indiana-based startup Ultrahuman is getting into the smart ring game with the promise to help wearers better understand their metabolic health. Having already launched its wearable M1 glucose monitoring patch, the Ultrahuman Ring can work in conjunction with the M1 patch or on its own to help draw links between your lifestyle […]

TikTok has become a Mental Health Resource – Here’s How to Use it Wisely

In 2020 52.9 million Americans lived with mental illness. That’s nearly one in five adults. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, any mental illness (AMI) is defined as a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. It can range from no impairment to mild, moderate, and even severe. Still, as Healthline reports, with such a […]

Do Hangover Cures Really Work? A New Study says “No”

Hungover woman on bed holding out coffee cup for man's hand to fill up from coffee pot

On the worst of mornings, the elusive hangover cure might seem like medicine’s holy grail. And as you grasp your head, you may wonder if a cure exists and you simply haven’t yet stumbled upon it. But take nauseous comfort in this: New research out of the United Kingdom found no convincing evidence that any […]

Biden Administration Delivering 144,000 Additional Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine

The Biden administration announced that it will distribute 144,000 more doses of the Jynneos vaccine across the country to address a recent spike in confirmed cases of monkeypox. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a press release it will begin shipping the vaccines from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) today. This […]

FDA temporarily Suspends Order Banning Juul E-Cigarettes

As The Associated Press (AP) reports, the Food and Drug Administration issued an administrative stay Tuesday on the order it issued last month for vaping company Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the market. The agency said on Twitter that the stay temporarily suspends the marketing denial order while it conducts further review, but […]

COVID-19 Boosters are being Reformulated this Fall to target Omicron – Here’s Why

Hand wearing blue medical gloves holds COVID-19 booster shot

As Healthline reports, after one-and-a-half years and many coronavirus variants, the COVID-19 vaccines are finally getting an update, the FDA announced on June 30. This change is to provide broader immunity against fast-spreading Omicron subvariants while still ensuring the same “base of protection” against severe illness and death offered by the original vaccines. To support […]

President Biden to ask FTC to Protect Consumer Health Data Privacy

President Joe Biden plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to protect consumer data privacy following the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new report from Axios. Biden’s request is expected to come by way of a letter to the FTC, asking the agency to protect the privacy […]

Federal Judge rules in favor of 3 Major U.S. Drug Distributors in Landmark Opiod Lawsuit

A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction, as reported by The Associated Press (AP). The verdict came nearly a […]

Anti-Diet App ‘Way Health’ Wants to Help Strengthen Your Relationship with Food

As we all should know by now, diets don’t work. You may beg to differ, after all, there’s a $150 billion industry promising to “help” us lose weight, and it can feel like everyone from doctors to smartphone apps to well-meaning relatives tries to prescribe weight loss as a cure-all. But as Healthline reports, it […]

Seven People have Died amid ‘one of the worst meningococcal outbreaks’ in US history. The CDC is urging People to get Vaccinated

As Insider reports, a meningococcal disease outbreak in Florida has killed at least seven people and sickened 26 more. The CDC is calling this deadly spread “one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in US history.” Health officials are urging people in Florida who may be at risk to go get vaccinated […]