Category: 4. Health

You might best know chromium as a bright, shiny metal used in bathroom and kitchen fittings. But is it also essential for your health?

In a form known as trivalent chromium, this metal is included in multivitamin pills and sold as a dietary supplement that companies claim can improve athletic performance and help regulate blood sugar.

I’m a biochemistry professor with a long-standing interest in how metals function in biology. Although health agencies in the United States and…

Public health research has identified long commutes, noise, and light pollution from densely populated living environments as factors that impair sleep. While such metropolitan housing offers advantages in…

In the United Kingdom, reports of people resorting to DIY dentistry — pulling teeth at home, gluing broken fillings, or leaving cavities untreated — have become alarmingly common. A British Dental Association survey found 82% of UK dentists have treated patients who attempted self-care since lockdown, a pattern tied to access gaps and the…

In in vitro laboratory studies, researchers at the…

Earlier this month, a report on Forbes.com outlined how confusion about DEI bans are affecting suicide prevention efforts, even prevention efforts that are endorsed by the federal government. Part of this confusion is addressing how certain demographic groups are at higher risk for suicide. Martha Thomas is the Co-founder and Chief Education Officer for The Defensive Line. After losing her daughter, Ella, to suicide, Martha and her…

• A UCLA study has found that “morning sickness” symptoms, including nausea, vomiting and aversions to certain foods and smells, are linked to the body’s natural, but complex, immune response during pregnancy.
• In the early stages of pregnancy, a unique mix of inflammatory responses alongside behavioral mechanisms that researchers believe are adaptive, like nausea, achieves a delicate balance, allowing the mother to tolerate and nourish the half-foreign fetus while also avoiding…

The research appeared September 12 in the journal Blood.

Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable cancer of plasma, a type of white blood cell that normally makes antibodies to fight infection. MM cells build up in the bone marrow, crowding out healthy blood-forming cells, and…

At the recent Bare It All event in Santa Monica, CA, Halle Berry, Academy…

Employer-sponsored plans are projected to rise 6.5% in 2026, more than twice the rate of inflation. That increase may seem high, but it’s modest compared with the 75% jump marketplace enrollees could face if ACA subsidies expire at year’s end. The contrast underscores the leverage employers already hold on behalf of their employees, and the opportunity for them to drive better deals, greater transparency and improved health…