Category: 4. Health

Doctors often start exams with the so-called “eyeball test”—a snap judgment about whether the patient appears older or younger than their age, which can influence key medical decisions.

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Spend too long on social media and you might start to hear the term “cortisol face” used to describe someone with supposedly puffy eyes or cheeks. The phrase describes the physical signs that some believe result from prolonged stress, particularly elevated levels of the hormone cortisol. It’s often used to encourage people to do something about their stress…

Last week, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination of Dr. Jennifer Nesheiwat to be the Surgeon General of the United States. Instead, he nominated Dr. Casey Means, a 37-year-old wellness…

Have you ever felt an unexpected sense of calm while walking barefoot on grass? Or noticed your stress begin to fade as you stood ankle deep in the ocean? If so, you may have unknowingly “grounded” yourself to the Earth.

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Meta recently announced it will be using artificial intelligence to detect teen accounts on Instagram, identify whether they are lying about their age and then switch their accounts from standard to teen accounts. AI will use engagement data as well as signals…

Cancer is typically thought of as a disease of aging. That is changing, unfortunately. Early-onset cancer is surging in people under age 50. Cancer is now a disease young people increasingly need to worry about.

And it’s not just one or two rare malignancies. A new U.S. government study found that the…

Over 70% of patients with ovarian cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage, often presenting with large volumes of ascites. This ascites fluid not only supports…

In a unique legal challenge, the Dutch…

What is the perception of patients regarding their doctors using marijuana? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how patient perceptions regarding their doctors using marijuana outside of work, especially since marijuana continues to be categorized as a Schedule 1 substance per the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. This study has the potential to help…

Published in PNAS Nexus, the study is the first to estimate the scale of global river contamination from human antibiotics use. Researchers calculated that about 8,500 tonnes of antibiotics — nearly one-third of what people consume annually — end up in river systems around the world each year even…