Health officials are alerting doctors to be on the lookout for certain types of rare, serious meningococcal infections that are on the rise in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new health alert that these infections, which are caused by a certain strain of Neisseria meningitidis bacteria, … Read more
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Halle Berry is getting encouragingly candid about women’s health. On Monday, the Oscar-winning actress joined First Lady Dr. Jill Biden as a speaker at the fourth annual A Day Of Unreasonable Conversation Summit hosted by Propper Daley. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Berry, 57, surprised Dr. Biden as she addressed women aging and the sexual … Read more
Thanks to pollen and the other tiny particles that cause us inflammation, seasonal allergies are here to stay (and there’s reason to believe they’re getting worse). Yes, there’s more daylight and warmer weather, but for many people, the beginning of spring also signifies the time of year when seasonal allergies kick in. Up to 60 million people in the … Read more
More than half of US adults don’t know that heart disease is the leading cause of death, according to the American Heart Association. That’s concerning news because many of those deaths are preventable. Heart disease, or cardiovascular disease, is a wide term for a series of health problems that interferes with the way the heart functions. … Read more
Jamie Dornan found himself hospitalized due to heart attack symptoms caused by toxic caterpillars during a trip to Portugal, according to his friend. Gordon Smart was a guest on BBC’s The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected podcast, and spoke about his and the Fifty Shades of Grey actor’s apparent health scare after a trip … Read more
Right now, all eyes are on the new COVID variant JN.1, a heavily mutated new strain that has swept the United States in recent weeks. JN.1 is now the fastest-growing variant in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It currently accounts for more than one-fifth of all infections in … Read more
As the United States enters respiratory virus season and health officials roll out updated COVID-19 vaccines, a new COVID variant HV.1 has emerged and is currently sweeping the country. The new omicron subvariant has rapidly overtaken other strains, including EG.5 aka Eris, to become the dominant variant in the U.S. As of late October, HV.1 … Read more
In honor of World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness week, Emma Heming Willis, wife of actor Bruce Willis, is stopping by TODAY for her first TV interview since her husband was diagnosed with the condition. On Sept. 25, she is sitting down with TODAY co-anchor Hoda Kotb, along with CEO of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration Susan … Read more
In 2015, JJ Singleton, then 27, felt a throbbing ache in his stomach. He thought he pulled a muscle — till the ache began intensifying. Then he observed blood in his stool, began getting acid reflux disorder and developed fatigue so unhealthy that he went to mattress by 6 p.m. “I nonetheless stored ignoring it. I … Read more
CANBERRA, Australia — A neurosurgeon investigating a girl’s thriller signs in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the affected person’s mind. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy by means of a gap within the 64-year-old affected person’s cranium at Canberra Hospital final 12 months when she used forceps to … Read more