Health

July 12, 2023 — Can a seemingly healthy person develop high blood pressure? The answer is yes: You can develop primary hypertension, or high blood pressure, even if you exercise regularly, eat healthy foods, and don’t smoke. Primary hypertension is high blood pressure from an unknown cause — though it commonly stems from family history and… […]

Editor’s note: Damian McNamara is a staff writer for WebMD and Medscape, our sister site for health care professionals. July 10, 2023 – Apparently, you can write about medical studies for years and still not know what it’s really like to participate in one. Until the day you do.I always figured I would stay a safe… […]

July 11, 2023 – Kathy Blackwell is not going to allow a couple of aching joints stop her from living her best life.The 73-year-old resident of Simi Valley, a bedroom community about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, organizes regular activities for her group of seniors. The 20- to 30-member-strong band of seasoned citizens, mostly… […]

July 11, 2023 – In the seesaw world of trying to maintain a healthy diet, researchers have good news for dairy lovers: Whole-fat foods, particularly dairy, can and should be included in a nutritious diet.The finding flies in the face of U.S. and other dietary guidelines that recommend restricting whole-fat foods in favor of low-fat… […]

July  7, 2023 – Experts in the Alzheimer’s disease field are throwing around works like ”breakthrough”, ”celebrate” and ”thrilled,” a day after the FDA granted full approval to a new drug to treat early stages of the disease. With no cure in sight, any new approval ushers in hope, including with an agent like Leqembi that… […]

July 10, 2023 – Eileen Brewer is the mother of an 11-year-old who often gets severe headaches.“She started showing signs of headache when she was a baby,” said Brewer, of Columbia, MD, where she is the president of Clusterbusters, an organization that supports research into treatments for cluster headaches and advocacy for people struggling with… […]

Kathleen Schmidt doesn’t remember how to walk. Her ability to speak is almost gone. And she’s forgotten that, almost 50 years ago, she married the man who spends virtually every afternoon with her. “But whoever she thinks I am, she likes me,” her husband, Jim Mangi, says. “And she does light up when I walk in… […]

June 30, 2023 – Treatment of hard-to-manage type 1 diabetes with transplanted pancreatic cells is moving forward on two fronts, with one product newly approved and the other making headway in a clinical trial. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells (often called just “islets,” because they reside in the islets… […]

June 30, 2023 — Ryan Katz, MD, a hand surgeon at the Curtis Hand Center at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, has a patient who got a serious injury from fireworks.“My patient — I’ll call him ‘John’ because he doesn’t want his real name to be used — is a 23-year-old man based in… […]

Written by Anndee HochmanThe child, a 4-year-old with autism, kept munching the dog food. Even when her parents began feeding the dog at night, the child persistently found her way to the animal’s bowl to grab the crunchy pellets.A dietitian figured out the problem: The girl, a “selective eater” like many children on the autism… […]