For the first time, some Medicare beneficiaries will be able to access Novo Nordisk's Wegovy without having to shoulder the total monthly price tag.
The recall comes years after surgeons say they first noticed problems with the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3, manufactured by Thoratec Corp., a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories.
A recent study disproves the notion of COVID-19's increased risk of asthma in children. There's no proof that a child's chance of developing asthma is increased by a COVID-19 infection, according to a recent study.
A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA's most serious recall, the agency announced Monday.The recall comes years after surgeons say they first noticed problems with the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3, manufactured by Thoratec Corp., a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories. The devices are not currently being removed from the market. In an emailed response, Abbott said it had communicated the risk to customers this year.The delayed action...
According to the findings, people with a balanced diet demonstrated better mental health and superior cognitive functions.
Across Canada, the burden of premature opioid-related deaths doubled between 2019 and 2021, representing more than one-quarter of deaths among younger adults, a study found.
CDC Study Doesn't 'Debunk' Link Between COVID-19 Vaccines & Sudden-Deaths Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study does not disprove a link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden deaths among young people, contrary to claims. The study, published by the CDC’s quasi-journal on April 11, analyzed death certificates from Oregon for people aged 16 to 30 who died between June 2021 and December 2022. Among...
Cambridge study finds those from poorest areas have 35% higher risk of second non-breast cancerFemale survivors of breast cancer living in the most deprived areas have a 35% higher risk of developing second, unrelated cancers, compared with those from the most affluent areas, research shows.Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK, with about 56,000 people being told they have it each year. Improved diagnosis and treatments mean that five-year survival rates are now 86% in...
The number of pregnancy-related deaths in South Carolina is decreasing, but racial disparities are widening.
Richard Nixon infected the modern Republican party with a sickness that would kill it – Donald Trump has finished the jobLast Sunday, on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asked Chris Sununu, New Hampshire’s Republican governor, about his recent switch from supporting Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, for the Republican presidential nomination to supporting former president Donald Trump.“Your words were very, very clear on January 11, 2021,” Stephanopoulos reminded...
Researchers have discovered a genetic link between depression and heart disease that could help to find new drugs to target both conditions.A team of scientists at Tampere University in Finland identified a "gene module" consisting of 256 functionally related, co-expressed genes that contribute to the development of both diseases. The full findings of the study were published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry.This gene module–a group of genes with similar expression patterns across...
How our life ends isn’t always up to us, but that question too often must be answered by loved ones and health care workers who don’t know what we would want.