BY MIKE MAGEE Believe it or not, The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced 100 years ago in 1923. But it was only adopted by Congress by a 2/3 majority vote 49 years later in 1972. That was simply…
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BY KIM BELLARD I saw an expression the other day that I quite liked. I’m not sure who first said it, and there are several versions of it, but it goes something like this: let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. Boy…
BY SCOTT MACDIARMID We have a healthcare crisis . . . and the crisis is now. Costs are soaring out of control, threatening the financial health of individuals and our nation. Quality of care is deteriorating, in spite of “world…
By SHUBHRA JAIN & JAY SANTORO Knowledge is power. If this adage is true, then the currency of power in the modern world is data. If you look at the evolution of the consumer economy over the past 100 years,…
May 19, 2023 — Nearly half of teens given the weight loss drug semaglutide (Wegovy) managed to lose enough weight to drop below the clinical threshold for obesity, a new study shows. By comparison, only 12.1% of adolescents with obesity…
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s well known that it’s unhealthy to have belly fat accumulating around your abdominal organs, but there’s a more insidious form of fat that could be even more…
“We know that a rare disease diagnosis is a race against the clock.” – Patient advocate Kasey Woleben of McKinney, TX Will Woleben was hitting all his developmental milestones as he entered the toddler years. He was walking, active, social,…
By Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, as told to Alexandra Benisek In the WebMD webinar “Diagnosed Under 40: Breast Cancer’s Unique Impacts on Younger Women,” Ann Partridge, MD, MPH, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, answered viewer…
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, May 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Patients with Crohn’s disease have a new treatment option, following U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of a pill called Rinvoq (upadacitinib). Rinvoq is meant to treat adults…
By Joe Nadglowski, president/CEO, Obesity Action Coalition, as told to Alexandra Benisek In the WebMD webinar “The Impact of Weight Bias,” Joe Nadglowski, president and CEO of the Obesity Action Coalition, answered viewer questions about how discrimination due to body…