Health

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… […]

June 30, 2023– The CDC gave a green light this week to two new vaccines to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in older adults. On Thursday, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, agreed with and endorsed the recommendations made last week by CDC advisors that people age 60 and over may get one of… […]

June 29, 2023 – What should ulcerative colitis patients know about cholesterol management? It’s estimated that 200 out of every 100,000 Americans have ulcerative colitis, or UC. And that’s a figure that’s doubled over 2 recent decades. UC is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The condition occurs in the innermost lining of the colon and rectum, causing sores inside… […]

June 28, 2023 – A smartwatch can tell you a lot about your health, but for guarding against big threats like diabetes and heart disease, blood tests remain the gold standard – for now. Someday, a wearable patch could give you the same information, minus the poke in the arm and the schlep to the doctor’s… […]

By Carolyn Newberry, MD, as told to Alexandra BenisekIn the WebMD webinar “Eating for a Healthy Weight,”Carolyn Newberry, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, answered viewer questions about how to create a healthy diet for weight management.A lot of this depends on your personal health history. For… […]

Historically, if you were an adult with an average risk for colorectal cancer (colon and rectal cancer), also known as colon cancer, you would need to start getting colonoscopies when you turned 50. But in May 2021, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force updated the guidelines. Now you’ll need a colonoscopy when you turn 45. But you… […]

June 27, 2023 — When she was in her 60s, Carole E., a retired accountant’s assistant in Albuquerque, NM, started having neck pain. She found out that three of her neck vertebrae were compressed and her whole spinal canal was narrow. “The neck problem was addressed with surgery to stabilize the disks and prevent them from… […]