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A Doctor Claimed He Knew Why I Got Cancer. When He Told Me, I Was Horrified And Embarrassed.
As a cancer survivor, watching Netflix’s show “Apple Cider Vinegar” felt like a gut punch. The show captures the exhaustion and desperation many cancer patients feel, and the seductive allure of ditching traditional medicine for the promise of a “natural” cure. It also exposes the dark underbelly of the alternative health industry — a world where quacks and influencers prey…
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What Pregnancy Revealed About One Mother’s Heart Health & Why It Matters for Life
At 35, Brooklyn resident Luyba Caloras was healthy, with no history of heart problems and no reason to think she was at risk of them. But pregnancy can act as a stress test on the heart—and soon after delivering her son at NYU Langone Health on February 3, 2024, she was diagnosed with a complication she never expected. “I thought…
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TENS therapy reduces movement pain and fatigue in fibromyalgia patients
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Adding TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) to outpatient physical therapy reduced movement-based pain and fatigue in patients with fibromyalgia, and the effects lasted for at least six months, according to a new study led by researchers at University of Iowa Health Care. The study, led by Kathleen Sluka, PT, PhD, is the first real-world trial of TENS…
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Why drug shortages persist in Tanzania despite major health reforms
Dar es Salaam. Each time a patient is told that medicines are out of stock at a public health facility, the same questions arise: who is responsible and why does the problem persist despite increased government spending on healthcare? This concern continues to trouble many citizens, particularly at a time when the government has pledged to improve access to medicines…
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FDA’s proposed food label not as effective as warning-style designs
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Clearer warning-style labels may help shoppers make healthier choices faster, but certain designs can still create false impressions of health and mislead shoppers into thinking unhealthy foods are better than they are. Study: Efficacy of front-of-package…
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Why do so many young men suddenly have erectile dysfunction?
Harlan Randell was a late bloomer in the bedroom. The 24-year-old Brit didn’t lose his virginity until 21 — and when he finally took the leap, he ran into an unexpected obstacle that would haunt him for years: erectile dysfunction. “I was absolutely mortified,” Randell, a sports distribution customer service and logistics specialist, told The Post. He’s hardly alone. Doctors…
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Study links higher enteric disease risk to E. coli in high-risk water supplies
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: A nationwide New Zealand study suggests that while most treated public water systems were not linked to higher overall disease risk, E. coli in vulnerable supplies and during heavy rainfall was tied to greater risk of…
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Can India become the pharmacy for weight-loss drugs?
In today’s Finshots, we tell you whether India can truly become the world’s largest exporter of affordable GLP-1 medicines, better known as weight-loss drugs. But here’s a quick disclaimer before we begin. This story is about affordable weight-loss drugs, and there’s a lot of excitement around them. But don’t let the online buzz influence you to take any medication on…
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AC Transit plans healthcare switch — and unions push back
Waves of bus drivers went up to the podium at the AC Transit Board of Directors meeting last night in Oakland to pour out their feelings about a threatened change to their health insurance. The agency had announced plans to switch from directly offering Kaiser Permanente and Health Net medical plans to a health insurance marketplace run by CalPERS, a…
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Forced to sell medications at a loss, rural Texas pharmacies seek new survival tactics
Crystal McEntire lives two lives. Every morning, she wakes up to tend to her family’s ranch near the top of the Texas Panhandle that houses a herd of Red Angus cattle. But after mornings of farm work, she exchanges her ranch jeans for pharmacy jeans, she said, and drives 26 miles to Hyland’s Pharmacy in Wheeler County — one of…
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