Here’s what causes stiff muscles
The same chemistry that turns bread into toast is also at work inside aging muscle. Sugar molecules in the bloodstream latch onto collagen and form what…
Category: Health & Fitness
Last year’s flu virus showed up late
Last season’s flu shot was not badly made. It was made too early. Every winter, experts pick the strains for shots that will not go into anyone’s arm…
This year’s Medicare handbook came without the prices
The Medicare & You handbook for 2027 is arriving in mailboxes now, and the numbers most people turn to first are not in it. According to the handbook…
GLP-1: When the weight comes back, so does everything else
Most of what gets written about stopping GLP-1 drug therapy is about the weight. The trial data suggests the weight is the least of it. Semaglutide won…
Health advice that sold America on red wine has been withdrawn
On a Sunday night in November 1991, the CBS program 60 Minutes told a national audience that the French ate rich food, smoked more and exercised less than…
Originally approved in 2010 First personalized cancer treatment is here
In April 2010, the Food and Drug Administration approved a cancer vaccine built individually for each patient out of his own immune cells. It is called…
Mammogram report tells something new
Since September 2024, every woman who gets a mammogram in the United States receives the same piece of information she may not have gotten before. Federal…
Sudden cardiac arrest is often not sudden
“Sudden cardiac arrest” implies no warning, but the research says otherwise. A study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, published in The…
New Bridge plan for Medicare covers weight-loss drugs
Medicare has never been allowed to pay for a drug used for weight loss, but a temporary program that opened July 1 changes that. Patients who qualify pay…
Candy season is 90 days long, not one night
Halloween is not really the problem. The problem is the stretch that follows — the bowl by the door, the bag on the counter, the leftovers that migrate…