Category: 4. Health

MIT researchers have now revealed the dynamics of those interactions in more detail than previously possible, shedding light on when and how new bacterial strains…

Mice given an oral probiotic containing the engineered microbe and fed a diet high in bluefin tuna had much lower methylmercury levels than expected, suggesting that a probiotic might eventually…

Relapsed/refractory (R/R) mature T and natural killer (NK)-cell lymphomas (TNKL) are aggressive blood cancers often resistant to frontline therapies. A team of Mass General Brigham researchers found that patients with these lymphomas had improved survival rates when treated with small molecule inhibitors as second-line therapy, followed by epigenetic modifiers as…

A decade ago, I treated a 16-year-old boy who reported suicidal thoughts. His parents, hunched over his stretcher, could not identify a glaring, inciting event. They assured me their house was overflowing with peace. When I spoke with the boy alone, he confided: “I’m suicidal because my friends never like my Facebook posts.” It was the first time I, an emergency physician, witnessed the emotional toll of cell phone use and…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has attracted a lot of attention for his raspy voice, which results from a neurological voice disorder called spasmodic dysphonia.

Kennedy, 71, says that in his 40s he developed a neurological disease that “robbed him of his strong speaking voice.” Kennedy first publicly spoke of the quiver he had noticed in his voice in a 2004 interview with journalist Diane Rehm, who also had spasmodic dysphonia.

In 2005, Kennedy was…

Heated tobacco products are often marketed by tobacco companies as less harmful than cigarettes, but they can pose health risks to users, according to a new review I co-authored in the journal Tobacco Control. Evidence on their health risks in people who smoke is limited, sometimes contradictory, and hard to make sense of.

Heated tobacco products are electronic devices that heat tobacco so users can inhale nicotine. Common brands include IQOS, available in the U.S., and Ploom and Glo,…

As conversations around nutrition evolve, protein has taken center stage, and with it, a renewed appreciation for one of the most often misunderstood food groups: dairy. Once cast aside in favor of plant-based alternatives, dairy has been making a comeback more recently as a performance-enhancing, gut-supporting functional food.

Non-dairy products still remain popular, but as consumers have begun leaning…

CVS Health plans to exit the individual health insurance business also known as Obamacare next year,…

Avoidable deaths are decreasing in high-income nations while they’re increasing in the United States. It’s a worrisome trend, which is partly responsible for the growing gap in life expectancy between the U.S. and its peers.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. life expectancy took a bigger hit than its peers, as the graph below shows. The figure also depicts how U.S. life expectancy was stagnant between approximately 2010…

Last week, the American Lung Association released its annual “State of…