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bymuratdeniz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For many people, the holiday season is a time of holiday feasting, from dinners to cocktail parties and special desserts. Amid all the celebrating, some people like Julie Kelly, a 41-year-old from North Carolina, are opting to hit pause on the medications they take to help them lose weight, drugs […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A COVID variant known as JN.1 has been listed as a separate “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO). The omicron sub variant was previously classified under its parent strain, BA.2.86, which prompted concern among some scientists earlier this year due to its high number of mutations. There […]

Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The “winter blues” season is upon us. As our exposure to daylight decreases over the winter months, millions of Americans suffer each year from the effects of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a form of depression that for some can surface like clockwork each year. SAD is defined as […]

Matthew Perry attends the GQ Men of the Year Party 2022 at The West Hollywood EDITION on November 17, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for GQ) (NEW YORK) — An autopsy report from the Los Angeles County coroner on Friday named acute effects of ketamine as the cause of death […]

Maskot/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Meagan and her husband Jon considered their wedding day, in April 2022, to be the best day of their lives. A year later, the Wisconsin couple believed they had topped that day when they found out Meagan was pregnant. Their pregnancy journey had been a challenge. Meagan, who has polycystic […]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time, researchers say they’ve found a possible cause of one of the most common, and life-interrupting, symptoms of pregnancy: morning sickness. This possible cause, according to a study published Wednesday in the medical journal Nature, is a hormone called GDF15. The amount of GDF15 that a […]

Courtesy of Keaira Davis/Summer Morrison/Vakoya Miller (NEW YORK) — Summer Morrison, a mom of three from North Carolina, was several weeks into her eight-week stay in a high-risk maternity unit for a rare condition known as monoamniotic twins when she learned another mom with the same condition had just been admitted. “I remember sending my […]

Veena Nair/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The latest trend to take hold on TikTok boasts flaxseed gel as a slimy addition to beauty routines, but medical experts are advising against it, saying it lacks scientific basis. Hundreds of TikTok users have claimed on the video sharing platform that homemade flaxseed gel is “basically nature’s Botox.” […]

nano/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Americans’ prescription drug records are being shared with law enforcement agencies in some cases without the customer’s knowledge and without a judge first signing off on a warrant, according to three U.S. lawmakers. The finding has Democrats worried that the policies by major retail pharmacy chains — which are allowed under federal […]

joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday granted petitions from the Food and Drug Administration and Danco Labs to hear their appeal of a ruling that would reinstate restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone and sharply roll back access nationwide. The court will likely hear oral arguments next spring and […]