Health

Chris Rogers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Just six weeks ago, Greg DeStefano began a new chemotherapy combination. The 50-year-old, from Northbrook, Illinois, had recently been diagnosed with his fourth round of cancer and doctors were hopeful the medication would treat the tumors growing in his neck. DeStefano was responding well, but then, in late May, […]

WLADIMIR BULGAR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Federal regulators are warning about safety concerns amid the rising popularity of drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers that off-brand forms of the medications could be unsafe. The warning comes as many people have reported turning […]

andresr/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A breast cancer drug already on the market has been found to lower the chances of breast cancer recurring, an advancement that could open the drug to a broader range of patients. The pharmaceutical company Novartis announced the findings Friday about its breast cancer treatment Kisqali, a drug already approved […]

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Experts are reminding the public of the dangers of heatstroke after a recent spate of hot car deaths. The latest incident occurred Sunday, when an 11-month-old girl in Palm Bay, Florida, died after she was left in a car while authorities said her parents attended a church service for […]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Teenage birth rates have fallen to their lowest levels ever, new provisional federal data published Thursday found. The report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, showed the birth rate among 15- to 19-year-olds in 2022 was 13.5 per 1,000 females. That’s a […]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While cases of COVID-19 and RSV were decreasing across the United States this spring, infections linked to another lesser-known respiratory virus were increasing. The percent of tests positive for human metapneumovirus (hMPV) surged to 19.6% for antigen tests and 10.9% percent for PCR tests at the beginning of March, […]

Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Digital mental health company BetterHelp is facing multiple potential class action lawsuits over claims from patients that it shared their personal information to advertisers — including Facebook. The lawsuits came soon after BetterHelp agreed in March to pay $7.8 million over charges from the Federal Trade […]

Guido Mieth/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — If you’re a female who loves fitness you may have heard the term “cycle syncing,” the idea that you should change up your workouts based on where you are in your menstrual cycle. The impact of the menstrual cycle in women’s sports has been prominent among professional athletes over […]

Courtesy Mayron Hollis (NEW YORK) — Mayron Hollis said she had just started taking contraceptives when she found out she was pregnant again a few months after giving birth in February 2022. Despite the surprise, Hollis and her husband say they were excited about the pregnancy and eager to add another child to their growing […]

KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Sick workers were behind a plurality of foodborne illness outbreaks and caterers in the U.S., new federal data shows. In a report published Tuesday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at outbreaks across 25 state and local health departments from 2017 to 2019. They found […]