Category: 4. Health

Linoleic acid, which is found in vegetable oils — especially seed oils like soybean and corn oil — and plant foods, is the primary omega-6 fatty acid consumed in the diet.

“There has been…

You could say it takes balls to do this on television. Zack Wickham in the June 10 episode of the Bravo reality TV series The Valley went to a clinic to get a “Scrotox” injection. Now, “Scrotox” is not short for a scrotum saying something toxic like…

In the study, researchers found that the brains of people diagnosed with Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease (DSAD) had twice as much iron and more signs of oxidative damage in cell membranes compared to the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease alone or those…

Researchers at the Headache Center of the University of Naples “Federico II” gave the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist liraglutide to 26 adults with obesity and chronic migraine (defined as ≥15 headache days per month). Patients reported an average of 11 fewer headache days…

Over the past month or so, the media on both sides of the aisle have been filled with reports of concern about…

The nation’s biggest health insurance companies are poised to ease prior authorization, the process of insurers reviewing hospital admissions and medications.

The policy change, expected to be announced as early as Monday by America’s…

A cigarette lit on screen once symbolized noir, danger and cool detachment — think Bogart or David Lynch. Then came the lawsuits, anti-smoking campaigns, bans and the rise of vaping. For a while, it seemed America had finally kicked the habit. But now, a smoking comeback is underway. Zendaya lights up in “Euphoria”; Jacob Elordi does the same in “Saltburn.” Celebrities like Dua Lipa, Charli XCX,…

For meteorologists like me, summer started on June 1. However, the calendar says the summer solstice is June 20. The atmosphere got the memo as the first major summer heatwave of…