A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Tuesday found that pediatric surgery for weight loss is on the rise in the United States. Using data from the Metabolic and...
In an abrupt turn of events, the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) will begin using an AI chatbot for its National Eating Disorder Helpline on June 1, 2023. This turn of events shocked...
While long-COVID has become a widely accepted phenomenon, researchers and healthcare professionals still do not clearly understand the condition, its symptoms, and its mechanisms. However, in a recent...
Last week, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), a global nonprofit organization focused on HIV and AIDS advocacy and treatment, warned about the resurgence of mpox, formerly called monkeypox. Despite...
After investigations of fungal meningitis revealed a link between the condition and traveled to Mexico, the CDC issued a level 2 travel notice, urging United States residents to practice enhanced...
In a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the CDC on May 12, 2023, public health officials identified the first cases of drug-resistant ringworm in the United States. According to...
In a paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Tuesday, experts recommended that inpatient personnel indefinitely use masks to mitigate disease and the seasonal spread of respiratory viruses,...
A press release on May 15, 2023, by the WHO warns patients against using artificial sweeteners, also called non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), when trying to manage body weight or prevent chronic disease. The...
An article published in SLEEP on May 11, 2023, reported a link between obstructive sleep apnea and an increased risk of long COVID. Using data from NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery...
On May 11, 2023, the WHO released a statement announcing the end of the global mpox public health emergency. Just days earlier, the CDC began investigating the potential resurgence of mpox in the...
At the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Eric Adjei Boakye, PhD, shared survey data revealing that most Americans do not comprehensively understand the link between human...
A collaborative study by researchers at the Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark and the investigators at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found a stronger link between...
On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, the HHS issued an advisory regarding social connection, loneliness, and isolation. The advisory included data and statements from the United States Surgeon General, Vivek H....
A CDC report published Tuesday found that drug overdose deaths increased significantly for several substances, including fentanyl which has emerged as the most common cause of overdose in the United...
On May 1, 2023, researchers from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) published a study on a combined therapeutic approach that...
In April 2023, Beyond Plastics, an environmental advocacy group, released a report that linked plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes to adverse human health outcomes. According to the organization,...
As the COVID pandemic has progressed, the CDC has added yet another COVID-19 subvariant to the seemingly never-ending variants of concern. The new variant XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus, is an...
On April 18, 2023, a study published in JAMA Network Open analyzing the link between COVID-19 and incident diabetes found that the condition may be linked to increased disease burden. Based on the...
A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado and the University of Pretoria determined that over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids are as effective as prescription hearing aids for managing...
Although cytomegalovirus (CMV) is not nearly as well-known as other infections, the virus impacts many pediatric patients. The CDC notes that 0.5% of babies are born with congenital CMV. Additionally,...
