Category: 4. Health

The research, published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, found that exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) is linked to lower scores in key cognitive abilities, particularly language skills.

NO₂ mainly enters the atmosphere through fuel combustion, originating from emissions of vehicles like cars,…

There have been concerns about the side effects of ADHD medications but the new findings, coupled with other studies, suggest that the benefits of taking these medications outweigh the risks, while highlighting the need for careful monitoring.

The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, conducted the largest…

She was crying. I slowly walked into her room startled.

Despite her longstanding condition of diabetes with many complications, she was optimistic and usually had a beaming face. I rushed to her side concerned about her tears. Her toe had been amputated because of an infection causing unbearable pain. I asked her what was wrong.

To my surprise, she said between her sobs, “They… took… my hair tie! First my toe… and now my hair’s… a mess!”

A problem I could somewhat easily…

With hundreds of millions of dollars of federal grants being abruptly…

The Senate Judiciary…

A man in Florida recently visited a Tiffany & Co jewelry store posing as a buyer for a professional US athlete. While viewing the items, together worth well over £1 million, the thief tried to grab them and run from the store.

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Each year, nearly half a million people worldwide die from brain aneurysms. In the U.S., an estimated 6.7 million people have an unruptured brain aneurysm, which means about one in 50 people might have one.

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Johns Hopkins University-led research has found that obesity, particularly severe obesity, is strongly associated with the incidence of 16 common health outcomes. Associations remained consistent across sex and racial groups. Strong associations were observed for obstructive sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.

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There’s a quiet revolution underway in psychiatry—one that doesn’t start and end with a prescription pad. On a recent episode of the Huberman Lab podcast, Harvard psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Chris Palmer made a compelling case that may reshape the current understanding of mental illness. The…

The Trump administration yesterday nixed a Biden-era plan that would have lifted the prohibition on coverage of obesity medicines by Medicare and considerably expanded access to these products in…