Arie Luyendyk Jr. is happy with three kids, thank you very much. While c-hosting the new episode of The Ben and Ashley I. Almost Famous Podcast, the Bachelor alum admitted that he’s “definitely” planning on having a vasectomy. Luyendyk and his wife Lauren Burnham made the decision after their family of five struggled to go food shopping after learning that the […]

SACRAMENTO — With access to abortion at stake across America, California is preparing to become the nation’s abortion provider. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders have asked a group of reproductive health experts to propose policies to bolster the state’s abortion infrastructure and ready it for more patients. Lawmakers plan to begin debating the ideas when they reconvene in […]

It was October 28 when the two big North American cardiology societies issued a joint practice guideline on evaluating and managing chest pain that was endorsed by five other subspecialty groups. The next day, another group that had taken part in the document’s genesis explained why it wasn’t one of those five. Although the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) […]

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(HealthDay)—Epidural analgesia during labor is not associated with immediate or longer-term adverse outcomes in offspring, according to a study published online Oct. 28 in JAMA Network Open. Rachel J. Kearns, M.D., from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, and colleagues used Scottish National Health Service hospital administrative data to identify 435,281 singleton live births in Scotland (2007 through […]

(HealthDay)—Race-based gaps in health care and health outcomes persist in every region of the United States, a new state-by-state report card shows. Racial and ethnic disparities woven throughout America and its system of health care mean that people of color are more likely to die younger from preventable illnesses than white people, according to a racial equity scorecard developed by […]

Rituximab didn’t perform any worse or better at inducing remission after a year in patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) than did conventional treatment with cyclophosphamide in the phase 3 REOVAS trial conducted in France. Dr Benjamin Terrier The B-cell–depleting agent also had a safety profile similar to cyclophosphamide during that window of time, Benjamin Terrier, MD, PhD, said in […]

Valsartan, an angiotensin II receptor blocker drug, delayed disease progression and improved cardiac structure and function in patients with early-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, according to results from a recent clinical trial published in Nature Medicine. “This is the first time we have identified a treatment that may actually impact the underlying disease process, as opposed to just treating symptoms. In addition, […]

BUENOS AIRES — Pretreatment with pharmacologic doses of oral L-arginine enhances the effect of radiation therapy in patients with unresectable brain metastases related to solid tumors, according to a study published in Science Advances. This allows greater local control of the disease and could provide an affordable way to optimize the effect of radiation, or even other treatments, on primary […]

Data consistently shows that exercise is key to well-being in nearly every facet of life; its positive impact is unquestioned. But what about when people, perhaps not by choice, need to sit on the sidelines for a while? A group of researchers from Brigham Young University have found new details about mitigating negative effects of inactivity by using passive heat […]