Month: January 2025

Exercise training while wearing a weighted vest is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance. Social media posts and trainers are promoting them as a potential strategy for improving fitness and health…Read More

Over the last 20 years, large floods were associated with up to 24.9% higher death rates from major mortality causes in the U.S. compared to normal conditions. A new study in the journal Nature Medicine demonstrates the sweeping and hidden effects of floods—including floods unrelated to hurricanes…Read More

Winter is flu and cold season. Will taking in more vitamin C keep you healthier and prevent illness…Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented rise in the use of videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Experts have likened the videoconferencing experience to watching oneself in the mirror—the more time spent in front of a mirror or viewing oneself on video may lead to a more heavily scrutinized body […]

Calling alcohol the third-leading preventable cause of cancer, the U.S. surgeon general on Friday recommended that alcoholic beverages come with the same type of warning label currently used on packs of cigarettes…Read More

MedPage Today) — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies…Read More

MedPage Today) — Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Virginia nurse Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman was arrested and charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse in connection to an ongoing investigation involving…Read More

MedPage Today) — “If we start seeing lots of cases outside of agricultural workers, we should be really concerned.” — James Lawler, MD, MPH, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Global Center for Health Security in Omaha, discussing…Read More

MedPage Today) — Liver cells damaged by diet-driven metabolic dysfunction are like a “ticking time bomb” in the evolution of liver cancer, according to a study in Nature. (UC San Diego) Viracta Therapeutics announced the closure of a phase II…Read More

MedPage Today) — People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed. Compared with controls in the general…Read More