ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week. This week, we tuned in for the stellar first episode of Only Human, a new podcast from WYNC about how health shapes our lives. Podcast host and journalist Mary Harris chronicled her experience … Read More »
Light to moderate drinking — or about one drink per day — was associated with a 13 percent increase in alcohol-related cancers in women, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal in August. The elevated risk for cancer … Read More »
Just in time for the new school year, head lice have become literal superbugs. Lice have developed a high level of resistance to the most common over-the-counter treatments in 25 states, according to research presented at a meeting of … Read More »
The U.S. Food and Drug Association approved the painkiller OxyContin for children ages 11 to 16 with pain “severe enough to require daily, around-the-clock, long-term opioid treatment,” according to a statement released on Aug. 14. Some experts expressed concern that the … Read More »
Sugar-sweetened beverages are hurting everyone, and just about everyone is drinking too much of them. But the largest meta-analysis of its kind just found that some people are more likely to overindulge than others: Young men in the Caribbean … Read More »
Unequal health care continues to be a serious problem for black Americans. More than a decade after the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report showing that minority patients were less likely to receive the same quality health care as … Read More »
Sean Gallup via Getty Images By Tom Jacobs As we were reminded during California’s recent measles outbreak, a surprising number of well-educated people decide each year not to have their children immunized against an array of communicable diseases. Trying to … Read More »