DALLAS — J.R. Chester got pregnant the summer before her senior year of high school. A bright student with good grades, she gave birth, graduated, and was pregnant again when she arrived at college that fall. She was a teen mom — like her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother. Her school did not teach sexual health education, and preventing […]

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) does not reduce all-cause mortality or heart failure hospitalization in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction and extensive coronary artery disease, according to late breaking research presented in a Hot Line session on 27 August at ESC Congress 2022. Coronary artery disease is the most common cause of heart failure and is associated with poor survival […]

You know drinking alcohol isn't the best thing for your health, but just how bad is it? After all, in the United States, two thirds of adults report some degree of alcohol use. When we do picture health harms from drinking, we're more likely to think of car crashes than cancer. This is largely because the alcohol industry has suppressed […]

Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners have today reported new findings from their Phase 2b trial following the administration of a booster dose of the candidate malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M—which previously demonstrated high-level efficacy of 77% over the following 12 months in young west African children in 2021. In their findings (reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases), they […]

PARIS—What do doctors know about their patients’ sexual health? Not a lot. What about oncologists who treat women with breast cancer? Not much more. Yet sexual dysfunction has a significant impact on the quality of life of patients during and after cancer. To determine the extent of sexual dysfunction among women with breast cancer, Maria Alice Franzoi, MD,an oncologist at […]

Massachusetts has become the latest state to settle with health insurance giant Centene Corp. over allegations that it overbilled the state’s Medicaid program for pharmacy services, KHN has learned. Centene, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed-care insurer, will pay $14.2 million, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. An official announcement is expected later Thursday. “This settlement is a significant result […]

Elixirs of youth or a waste of time? The shaky science surrounding billion pound multi-vitamin industry… and why experts think you might not need them at all Multi-vitamins either help you live longer and healthier, or are huge a waste of money depending on the study Experts have recently claimed they could help ward off dementia, whilst critics call them […]

Today, local, state, and territorial health departments, as well as tribal governments and local non-governmental organizations, can partner together and begin submitting requests to access monkeypox vaccine through the recently announced Monkeypox Vaccine Equity Pilot Program. This new pilot program is intended to reach populations that may face barriers to monkeypox vaccination, which may include differences in language, location of […]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved daxibotulinumtoxinA-lanm  injection (Daxxify) for the temporary improvement in the appearance of moderate to severe glabellar lines (frown lines) in adults. According to a company news release, Daxxify, an acetylcholine release inhibitor and neuromuscular blocking agent, is the first peptide-formulated, long-acting neuromodulator approved for this indication. The approval of Daxxify, manufactured by […]

The FDA has issued a warning against cooking chicken in NyQuil after a social media challenge that encouraged people to try it went viral. Called the “sleepy chicken challenge,” the trend tells people to cook chicken in NyQuil or similar over-the-counter cough and cold medications, which include ingredients such as acetaminophen, dextromethorphan and doxylamine. “The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing […]