Tag: your-feed-health

November 13, 2023

An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy for Men

The life expectancy gap between men and women reached its widest in nearly three decades, driven by more men dying of Covid and drug overdoses.

November 10, 2023

Gonorrhea Is Becoming Drug Resistant. Scientists Just Found a Solution.

A new antibiotic, zoliflodacin, is as effective as the current standard of care. Its creation may hasten the arrival of other needed antibiotics.

October 27, 2023

Few Americans Have Gotten the New Covid Shots, C.D.C. Finds

About 7 percent of adults have rolled up their sleeves for the new vaccines, according to new agency data.

October 25, 2023

Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says.

A major lawsuit against Meta has placed a spotlight on our fraught relationship with online social information.

October 24, 2023

How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral

The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the practice.

October 16, 2023

Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid

In some patients, remnants of the coronavirus in the gut may stifle production of serotonin, an important neurotransmitter, researchers suggest.

October 16, 2023

Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)

Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,” the Stanford biologist and neurologist argues. It might also be liberating.

October 15, 2023

Wearables Track Parkinson’s Better Than Human Observation, Study Finds

Researchers demonstrated that off-the-shelf sensors can measure the subtle changes of disease progression.

October 9, 2023

Teen Depression Rose During Pandemic, With Racial Gaps in Treatment

Approximately 20 percent of teenagers had major depressive disorder in 2021, but less than half who needed treatment received it, a new study found.

September 25, 2023

Online Marijuana Shops Make It Easy for Minors to Buy, Study Finds

Many online marijuana dispensaries do not enforce age limits on purchases and have other lax policies that enable minors to buy cannabis on the internet.