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Regardless of the outcome of Sunday’s game, the New England Patriots are already making dreams come true.Shelly Sepulveda, a local NICU nurse, has been battling cancer for the…
Read more NICU nurse gifted Patriots playoff, Super Bowl tickets amid cancer battleU.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.The U.S. Food…
Read more FDA approves Wegovy pill for weight lossAn oral version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, failed to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in closely watched trials, Novo Nordisk…
Read more Semaglutide fails to slow progression of Alzheimer’s in highly anticipated trials, Novo Nordisk saysDoctors may soon have a new way to treat high blood pressure, even among people for whom medicines haven’t worked well in the past.Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made…
Read more There may soon be a new approach to treat hard-to-control high blood pressureThe inhalation of cannabis flower containing THC and CBD provides superior migraine relief compared to a placebo, according to clinical trial data presented at the annual meeting of…
Read more Vaporized Cannabis Mitigates Migraine SymptomsUVA Health is launching clinical trials for a new way to manage Type 2 diabetes that doesn’t rely on medications or weight loss. UVA Health is launching clinical…
Read more U. of Virginia researchers explore new ways to manage diabetes – WTOP NewsThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. They call it the Purge. You have experienced, in a modest…
Read more The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed EverythingIn the weeks after she caught COVID, in May 2022, Lauren Shoemaker couldn’t wait to return to her usual routine of skiing, backpacking, and pregaming her family’s eight-mile…
Read more ‘If Exercise Could Cure This, I Would Have Been Cured So Quickly’When it comes to treating disease with food, the quackery stretches back far. Through the centuries, raw garlic has been touted as a home treatment for everything from…
Read more Someday, You Might Be Able to Eat Your Way Out of a ColdThree years into the global fight against SARS-CoV-2, the arsenal to combat long COVID remains depressingly bare. Being vaccinated seems to reduce people’s chances of developing the condition,…
Read more Trying to Stop Long COVID Before It Even StartsDuring this week’s Monday Night Football game, the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed moments after making a routine defensive play. Hamlin seemed to have suffered a…
Read more The Inflated Risk of Vaccine-Induced Cardiac ArrestBy Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Dec. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A relatively new drug is boosting survival rates for women with a specific type of advanced…
Read more Antibody Drug Boosts Survival for Type of Advanced Breast CancerA version of this article was originally published in Undark Magazine. On a late April afternoon, the Ngor Health Center in Dakar, Senegal, is serene. Sunlight spills through…
Read more The Pandemic Forced the World to Pay Attention to Oxygen
