Spicy food challenges are all the rage these days, but can munching red hot peppers and sizzling hot sauces harm you? One nutrition expert from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Ohio suggests that while it may burn your tongue at the dinner table and trigger some gastrointestinal distress as it travels through your body,...
Miriam E. Tucker, for Medscape July 01, 2022 Researchers published the study covered in this summary on medRxiv.org as a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Estrogen therapy either by itself or in combination with progesterone among women aged 65 and older is beneficial and does not necessarily raise mortality or cancer risk. ...
July 9, 20225:00 AM ETHeard on Weekend Edition Saturday NOAM LEVEY Jeni Rae Peters and daughter embrace at their home in Rapid City, S.D. In 2020, Peters was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. After treatment, Peters estimates that her medical bills exceeded $30,000. Dawnee LeBeau for NPR RAPID CITY, S.D. ― Jeni Rae Peters would...
by UC Davis Microscopic image of melanocyte cells that produce skin and eye pigment. Credit: UC Davis A new UC Davis-led study sheds light on cell type-specific biomarkers, or signs, of melanoma. The research was recently published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Melanoma, the deadliest of the common skin cancers, is curable with early diagnosis and treatment. However,...
By Sandee LaMotte, CNNUpdated 9:56 AM EDT, Fri July 08, 2022 (CNN)In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection. After months of ups and downs, doctors had just told her that her husband, Tom Patterson, was too rackedwith...
Nut consumption is associated with a significantly lower prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and lower all-cause mortality with or without CKD, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of Nephrology. Koushu Wang, from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, and colleagues used data from 6,072 U.S. adults (aged...
by University of California – San Diego Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their pain, but neuroscientists have only recently been able to test if and how this actually works. In the latest of these efforts, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine...
By Ashley Abramson July 4, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. EDT(iStock) Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. Falling and hitting your head can be scary. In the moment, it can be difficult to figure out how serious your injury is, what you should do next and what symptoms might signal...
By Linda Searing July 5, 2022 at 5:43 a.m. EDT People who have chronic tension headaches might be able to reduce the frequency of those headaches by as much as 50 percent with acupuncture, according to research published in the journal Neurology. Tension headaches, which are the most common type, are sometimes described as feeling pressure as...
By Emily Harris July 8, 2022 at 7:18 a.m. EDT In January, Jess Johnson woke in the middle of the night struggling to breathe. While lying in bed, she could not stop coughing or wheezing. “My inhaler would not work, nothing was working,” Johnson recalls. Her first thought was the coronavirus. But then the North...
