By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, May 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When Ann Alexander underwent chemotherapy to treat breast cancer a decade ago, she was warned about potential hair loss, nausea and vomiting. The 73-year-old wasn’t, however, told about…
May 8, 2023 — “Think of it as a morning after pill, but for STIs,” was how Aniruddha Hazra, MD, put it. Hazra specializes in infectious disease at University of Chicago Medicine Infectious Disease and Global Health unit. The cause…
May 4, 2023 – In the hospital is a girl of 5 or 6 named Cindi. Dr. Graves enters her room. He’s very busy. Cindi is afraid that she’ll get sicker. Then a clown appears with Winnie the Pooh stickers!…
May 5, 2023 — The on-again, off-again saga of Wegovy supply problems for U.S. patients looking to lose weight is back. Novo Nordisk, the company that manufactures and markets semaglutide for weight loss as Wegovy and for treating type 2…
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre “So did you figure out what your shadow totem is?” This was the first thing out of my husband’s friend’s mouth as I sat down to dinner…
May 5, 2023 — In a first-of-its-kind surgery, doctors have successfully repaired a malformation in the brain of a fetus still in the womb. The team from Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital used ultrasound guidance to repair the vein…
May 5, 2023 — Aryn Thirp, a 35-year-old mother and blogger from South Jordan, UT, knew something had to change last year when she saw the numbers in her lab results: her cholesterol and triglycerides, a type of fat found in…
The classic picture of someone with alcohol use disorder is someone who always drinks too much and whose life is falling apart because of it. But that’s not always the reality. Some people seem to be just fine even though…
The phrase “addictive personality” gets tossed around a lot these days. The basic idea: While most people can have a cocktail, buy a lottery ticket, or even experiment with drugs without getting hooked, those with a specific personality type are wired…
SOURCES: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Incorporating Alcohol Pharmacotherapies Into Medical Practice, Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 49, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009. Drug and Alcohol Dependence: “Alcohol and Opioid…
