Category: 4. Health

Federal scientists released their annual forecast for Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms on June 26, 2025, and they expect a mild to moderate season. However, anyone who comes in contact with the blooms can face health risks, and it’s worth remembering that 2014, when toxins from algae blooms contaminated the water supply in Toledo, Ohio, was considered a moderate year, too.

We asked Gregory J. Dick, who leads the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, a federally funded…

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is no longer merely a symptom of aging but a physiologic and psychological signal that something more profound in the system is out of sync. And clinicians are sounding the alarm: ED is one of the earliest warning signs of cardiometabolic dysfunction, hormonal imbalance and emotional…

“Eating acid-producing foods like meat, eggs, and dairy can increase the dietary acid load, or the amount of acids consumed, causing inflammation linked to weight gain,” says Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD, director of…

The odds that a patient survives a hospital stay sharply increase if the physician overseeing in-hospital care aced a special test designed to assess doctor knowledge and judgment, according to a new study.

The study found that patients of hospitalists who placed in the top quartile of a…

Most normal people, when told they have kidney cancer, worry about what that means for their long-term health. I’m not normal. When I discovered I had a 1cm tumor growing on my left kidney, I wondered: “How much is this going to cost me?”
My lack of normality results in part from my profession – I’m a physician and behavioral scientist who believes that every experience is an excuse to conduct research. I’m also a famously discerning consumer (my…

In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.

Many of these statements are factually incorrect. For example, in a newscast aired on June 12, 2025, Kennedy told Fox News viewers that 97% of federal vaccine advisers are on the take. In the same…

In the past 20 years, cancer medicine has been revolutionized by an array of new treatments, ranging from monoclonal antibodies to novel immunotherapies like CAR T-cell therapy, and targeted therapies like tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Some have played such a major role in improving survival rates that they have now been added to the WHO Model List…

Yesterday, the Common Health Coalition issued a major report that “analyzes how cuts to public health infrastructure will ripple through the U.S. health care system – leading to sicker patients, higher costs of care,…

Walgreens Boots Alliance Thursday reported a narrower-than-expected…

On June 12th, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced a proposal to roll back federal guidelines to investigate reports of potential workplace dangers in mines.

Mining remains a dangerous occupation for American workers. In 2023, forty people died in mining-related workplace incidents in the United States. Nine of these fatalities were connected to coal…