Study connects metal exposure to childhood gut health
Monday, Apr 28, 2025 • Katherine Egan Bennett : contact Yike Shen, an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at UTA A new study led by The University of Texas at Arlington, University of California Los Angeles, University of Sherbrooke, and Harvard...
Finding connections among environmental, animal, and human health leads grad to pursue Ph.D.
Over the past few months, RIT student Hannah DeFelice has looked forward to going to her internship office—a paddock in the center of a Holliston, Mass., farm—and spending quality time with her co-workers, a herd of 11 horses and three donkeys. But this isn’t just...
Beauty Launches And Happenings, Including Women’s Fragrances By Gant
From skincare innovations to must-have makeup launches and collaborations, here’s a string of fresh formulas and standout essentials to upgrade your beauty routine. Gant launches its debut women’s fragrances: Following the success of its men’s fragrance line,...
Beauty through disability: A CT exhibit that challenged our assumptions
One in five Americans lives with a disability. Yet their stories often remain unseen. The Bold Beauty Project aims to change that by presenting powerful visual art exhibitions that showcase portraits of women with a variety of different disabilities. On April 18, The...
Eight tips for healthy eye care and nutrition while aging
One in three seniors have some form of vision-reducing eye disease by age 65. Changes to vision and concerns about eye health can happen rapidly for older adults. Seniors should get a vision test once a year and should always follow a doctor’s recommendations on...
Eye Specialists and Surgeons of Northern Virginia Helps Protect Your Vision
WASHINGTON (7News) — Dr. Sabita Ittoop of Eye Specialists and Surgeons of Northern Virginia joined Good Morning Washington to talk about Glaucoma, one of the leading causes of permanent blindness. Glaucoma is known as the “silent thief of sight” for a reason. That’s...
What your eye color reveals about 7 health risks
The mesmerizing colors of human eyes—from deep browns to vibrant blues, subtle greens, and rare ambers—result from intricate genetic factors that influence melanin production in the iris. This same genetic programming that determines whether you have blue, brown,...
Doctors warn too much exposure to UV radiation can cause serious eye diseases: Why it’s so important to wear sunglasses
Doctors warn too much exposure to UV radiation can cause serious eye diseases: Why it’s so important to wear sunglasses BySanya Panwar Apr 26, 2025 04:02 PM IST Share Via Copy Link Is prolonged sun exposure putting your eye health in danger? Here are some...
Convenience’s Hidden Cost: Dr. Jamie Yee on Why AI Can’t Replace the Human Eye in Eye Care
With each passing day, the world seems to be increasingly driven by algorithms. It’s tempting to believe that artificial intelligence (AI) can do it all, including diagnosing the eyes. Patients can now “test” their vision, renew prescriptions, and receive a retinal...
3 common eye problems may indicate dementia years before a diagnosis
You may want to keep an eye on the blood vessels at the back of your peepers — they could reveal if you’re likely to develop dementia. Dementia — the progressive decline in cognitive abilities, impacting memory, language and reasoning — affects more than 6...
Inadequate or excess fluoride: a major public health concern
Overview Fluoride intake has both beneficial effects – in reducing the incidence of dental caries – and negative effects – in causing tooth enamel and skeletal fluorosis following prolonged exposure to high concentrations. The intake ranges that produce these opposing...
Which Antihistamine Does Not Cause Dry Eye?
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High cholesterol symptom to spot around the eye
Optician Tina Patel highlighted the subtle yet alarming signs of sky-high cholesterol that might be visible on one’s eyelids. Patel from Feel Good Contacts disclosed that “yellowish deposits, known as xanthelasma, can appear around the eyelids”,...
The Global Status Report on Oral Health 2022
Oral health is integral to general health and supports individuals participating in society to achieve their potential. Yet oral diseases are the most widespread noncommunicable diseases affecting almost half of the world’s population (45% or 3.5 billion people...
Advocates fear potential Medicaid cuts could strip coverage from thousands of Kansans, threatening hospitals and health care access
photo by: Screenshot CEO and President of the REACH Healthcare Foundation Brenda Sharpe speaks at a webinar on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. As members of Congress are being asked to find $880 billion in cuts to health spending, Medicaid advocates are warning of tough...
Hartford HealthCare to provide medical care on 7 CT college campuses
Hartford HealthCare will be providing health care services at University of Saint Joseph beginning in fall 2025. The health care network provides services to seven Connecticut colleges under its Campus Care program. Campus Care offers “overall health, sports health,...
Health Care Sector In 2025: Buy Abbott Labs
The health care sector has declined by 0.18% in 2025. This is better than the S&P 500’s drop of 6.06%. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) is graphed below. Looking within the sector is instructive. Market sentiment and breadth in the sector are at lows...
OVHC uncovers mystery behind health care access
HOPE, HEALTH, HEALING — Individuals with the Ohio Valley Health Center celebrated the free clinic’s 19th-annual gala at St. Florian Event Center Sunday. From left are Jeff Oechslein, master of ceremonies; Wilma Ching of the Ching Family Trust, community partner of the...
How changes to Regional Medical Center’s trauma care heavily impacted health services in Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County officially takes over operations of Regional Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) Nearby Valley Medical Center saw a 33% increase in trauma patients from 2023 to 2024. Originally...
Locals voice frustrations over Anthem and MU Health Care negotiations during Saturday town hall
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Locals gathered at the American Legion in Columbia Saturday afternoon to discuss the ongoing contract dispute between Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and MU Health Care. The meeting, organized by LiUNA Local 955, aimed to provide community members...
Home-Based Care Dealmaking Outpaces Other Health Care Sectors
Investors continued to show confidence in the home-based care industry during the first quarter of 2025, with the sector securing more deals than any other health care category, even as broader market hesitation slowed overall investment activity. The home-based care...
‘Writing the new history for health care’: UC nurses set a vision for the future of AI in nursing
For emergency room nurse Maranda Bradshaw, AI helps reduce the stress that she calls ‘stacking cognitive fatigue.’ “Think of it this way: for any given procedure that I perform, there could be 20, 30, 40 steps that I follow, and each step is...
Adventist Health Glendale Achieves 90% Sepsis Compliance with AI
Mednition Mednition is a healthcare AI company empowering emergency nurses to save lives with KATE AI. KATE provides 24/7 clinical risk intelligence while improving operational efficiency, workforce well-being, and financial performance. For nurses, by nurses, KATE AI...
Regents approve successive 3 percent wage increase for UI Health Care, graduate student unions
Union health care workers and graduate students will receive 3% base pay increases in each of the next two years under collective bargaining agreements approved by the Iowa Board of Regents. Both agreements, which were officially approved Thursday, April 23 in Ames,...
Despite Kennedy’s stated support, funding for Women’s Health Initiative remains in limbo
Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. The word came down at 9 a.m. Pacific on April 14 that they were done. Marcia Stefanick of Stanford and three other leaders of regional centers that for...
I Ate High-Protein Products for 3 Weeks. My Body Changed in Ways I Didn’t Expect.
This story is part of a series on navigating the new world of Peak Protein, from the latest packaged products to emerging research. Read the rest of the stories here. IF YOU’VE NEVER experienced the food manufacturing wonder that is a high-protein marshmallow krispies...
The 15 Best High-Protein Packaged Products
Charles Thorp is the Fitness and Commerce Editor at Men’s Health, where he shares the best product recommendations in gym equipment, recovery tools, supplements, and more. Following an early life in athletics, Charles became a NASM-certified trainer and began writing...
Trump administration promises to restore funding to landmark women’s health study after outcry
The Trump administration has promised to restore funding to a landmark study on women’s health days after researchers leading the study announced their funding had been cut — news that prompted outcry from medical experts and scientists. The U.S....
The Real Reason Why Ellie Put Coffee Beans on Joel’s Grave in The Last of Us
The following story contains spoilers for The Last of Us season 2, episode 3, “The Path.” WE’RE RIGHT THERE with you. The Last of Us let us down gently after the brutal happenings of the second season’s second episode, leveling the playing...
I Tested Puma’s New Super Shoes in a Lab, Then Wore Them on the Road
RUNNING SHOES ARE getting faster, and Puma’s latest race day shoe, the Fast-R Nitro 3, is aiming to take the crown as the speediest on the road. The German brand soft-launched the model at the Boston Marathon last week, alongside a study that claimed testing shows the...
I Tested Super Shoes Just Like Sports Scientists to See What Makes Them Work
THE HARDEST THING about running during a lab test: I become a mouth breather. I’m hooked up to a computer via a tube clenched between my teeth. My nose is plugged with a pair of plastic blue pincers, cutting off the ability to inhale through my nostrils. The whole rig...
Women’s Health Initiative to receive NIH funding after all
Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. On Monday, the groundbreaking Women’s Health Initiative announced that the federal contracts funding the study’s 40 regional centers would end with the...
Trump administration says it will restore funding to Women’s Health Initiative
The Trump administration has promised to restore funding to a landmark study on women’s health days after researchers leading the study announced their funding had been cut — news that prompted outcry from medical experts and scientists. The U.S....
Inside the Wild Stunt Work of Tom Hardy’s Brutal New Netflix Thriller ‘Havoc’
As a stunt coordinator, Jude Poyer doesn’t always get asked to do interviews about his films. But that’s the gig: design enormously elaborate sequences that attract and amaze audiences, then watch as the limelight is trained entirely on actors and directors while you...
