Health
Texas Abortion Law Complicates Care for Risky Pregnancies

The only way to stop the heavy bleeding is to end the pregnancy and contract the uterus, Dr. Moayedi said. Time is of the essence. “Every OB-GYN has cared for someone who has died from a hemorrhage,” she said. “If someone is hemorrhaging while miscarrying, how long do I have to wait?” Even if the […]

Updated: Nov 26, 2021
Why the Retail Industry Is Fighting Vaccine Mandates

The holiday shopping season has arrived, and retailers are ringing it in by doing everything from cutting prices to stocking showrooms to lure back customers who stayed at home last year. What the biggest of them are not doing is the one thing the White House and many public health experts have asked them to: […]

Updated: Nov 25, 2021
How Exercise Affects Your Appetite

Before, during and for three hours afterward, the researchers drew blood to check for changes in hormones related to appetite and asked people how hungry they felt. They also let everyone help themselves to an open buffet lunch of lasagna, salad, rolls, soda and poundcake with strawberries, while unobtrusively monitoring how much food people consumed. […]

Updated: Nov 24, 2021
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Fueled Opioid Crisis, Jury Finds

A federal jury in Cleveland on Tuesday found that three of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains — CVS Health, Walmart and Walgreens — had substantially contributed to the crisis of opioid overdoses and deaths in two Ohio counties, the first time the retail segment of the drug industry has been held accountable in the decades-long […]

Updated: Nov 23, 2021
Covid Cases in Children Are Rising, Pediatricians Say

Coronavirus cases in children in the United States have risen by 32 percent from about two weeks ago, a spike that comes as the country rushes to inoculate children ahead of the winter holiday season, pediatricians said. More than 140,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus between Nov. 11 and Nov. 18, up from 107,000 […]

Updated: Nov 23, 2021
Concerns Grow Over Safety of Aduhelm After Death of Patient Who Got the Drug

Safety data from those trials was published Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology in a study whose authors included eight Biogen employees. The data showed that 425 of 1,029 patients, or 41 percent, who received the high dose of the drug — the dose that the F.D.A. later approved — experienced either brain swelling or […]

Updated: Nov 22, 2021
Coronary Calcium Scan: A Heart Test That Can Help Guide Treatment

In an editorial on “The Potential and Pitfalls of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring,” published in JAMA Cardiology in October, Dr. Khan and her co-author, Dr. Ann Marie Navar, a cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, concluded that for middle-aged and older adults like my friend, the calcium test is one of the […]

Updated: Nov 22, 2021
Disney Pauses Worker Vaccine Mandate After Florida Ban

Disney has put on pause a coronavirus vaccine mandate for employees of its Florida theme park after the State Legislature and the governor made it illegal for employers to require all workers get the shots, a company spokesperson confirmed Saturday. Walt Disney World could have been facing fines under the policy now on hold, illustrating […]

Updated: Nov 21, 2021
C.D.C. Endorses Covid Vaccine Booster Shots for All Adults

Health officials in many of these countries, and now in the United States, see booster shots as a way of shoring up defenses against a tenacious enemy and gaining the upper hand in the pandemic. France, for example, has mandated booster shots for those over age 65 who wish to get a health pass permitting […]

Updated: Nov 20, 2021
When Can We Stop Wearing Masks?

Amid the turmoil of the last two years — a period that included a deadly pandemic, mass layoffs, an ugly presidential election and an attack on the United States Capitol — some of the fiercest political debates in America have been waged over a nearly weightless piece of fabric: the face mask. American officials were […]

Updated: Nov 20, 2021