Health

How PBMs Are Driving Up Prescription Drug Costs

When P.B.M.s overcharge, it can increase costs for patients, not just employers and government programs like Medicare.The country’s most popular…

1 saat ago

How Helpful Is Walking for Lower Back Pain?

Doctors and physical therapists have long incorporated aerobic exercise into treatment programs for lower back pain. Movement can simultaneously ease…

1 gün ago

How Heat Affects the Brain

In July 2016, a heat wave hit Boston, with daytime temperatures averaging 92 degrees for five days in a row.…

2 gün ago

More Women in Africa Are Using Long-Acting Contraception, Changing Lives

On a busy day at the Kwapong Health Centre in rural Ghana, Beatrice Nyamekye put contraceptive implants into the arms…

3 gün ago

Surgeon General Calls for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms

The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, announced on Monday that he would push for a warningon social…

4 gün ago

Pregnant, Addicted and Fighting the Pull of Drugs

Kim Short waited in the doctor’s exam room on an icy day in February, exhausted from the first trimester of…

5 gün ago

Medical Experts Alarmed by Out-of-Hospital Cesareans in Florida

A new law in Florida allowing doctors to perform cesarean sections in outpatient birthing centers has raised serious safety concerns…

6 gün ago

What ‘Inside Out 2’ Teaches Us About Anxiety

At the end of “Inside Out,” the 2015 Pixar movie about the emotional life of a girl named Riley, a…

1 hafta ago

Akira Endo, Scholar of Statins That Reduce Heart Disease, Dies at 90

Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped to lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower…

1 hafta ago

Four Astronauts Spent 3 Days in Space. Here’s What It Did to Their Bodies and Minds.

Space changes you, even during short trips off the planet.Four people who spent three days off Earth in September 2021…

1 hafta ago

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