He will also soon launch what he calls a new health service, GHS for over-60s, which will focus on helping people age well and learning from others with similar conditions. “My approach is PDSR – prevent, delay, delay and reverse.” Dr Richard Siow, director of aging research at King’s College London, also sees the value …
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Semaglutide, a drug manufactured by Novo Nordisk under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, is actually the elixir of eternal youth, but with weight loss. Or so its popularity suggests: the diabetes drug, which can lead to a loss of up to 15% of body weight, is in such demand-driven shortage that Novo Nordisk decided …
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COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – A judge has struck down South Carolina’s new law ban on most abortions around six weeks into pregnancy on Friday until the state Supreme Court could review the measure, giving providers a temporary reprieve in a region that has imposed strict restrictions on the procedure. Judge Clifton Newman’s ruling, which rolled …
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Hearing on possible disciplinary action opened Thursday for an Indianapolis doctor who spoke publicly about performing an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio, pointing the finger at how the case has become a political flashpoint in the national abortion debate. Indiana’s Republican attorney general has accused Dr. Caitlin Bernard of …
CLEVELAND — Infertility is a common condition, but not widely discussed. what you should Know According to the World Health Organization, one in six people worldwide is affected by infertility Secondary infertility is the inability to conceive or carry a baby to term after a previous birth Mental health experts say taking practical tasks off …
Scientists funded by the federal government have proposed a definition of prolonged Covid based on the symptoms identified in a large study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The definition is based on 12 symptoms that most distinguish people with long Covid from people who have not had coronavirus. There is still …
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Abortion will soon be severely restricted in one of the last bastions of legal access in the American South. The South Carolina Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would ban most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy — before most people know they’re pregnant — and sent it to the …
BALTIMORE (AP) – Eurico Rosa da Silva was in a dark place. On the track, the jockey in his early 30s was winning races and making money. At home, he struggled with suicidal thoughts every day. “I got to the point where I had no choice but to go get help,” he recalled recently. “I …
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BALTIMORE — Eurico Rosa da Silva was in a dark place. On the track, the jockey in his early 30s was winning races and making money. At home, he struggled with suicidal thoughts every day. “I got to the point where I had no choice but to go get help,” he recalled recently. “I went …
The Associated Press spent a year investigating how racial health disparities have harmed generations of black Americans. From birth to death, black Americans fare worse in terms of health than their white counterparts. They have higher rates of infant and maternal mortality, higher rates of childhood asthma, more difficult to treat mental illnesses as teenagers, …
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