Health

Olympia Fields, Illinois — Heart patient Jerrilyn Young said it makes a big difference that her cardiologist is Black.  “He talks to me,” said Young. “A lot of Black people won’t go to doctors because they don’t have anybody that talks to them. They tell them what to do without …

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). A growing number of desperate parents are bringing their mentally ill kids to emergency rooms, even as most hospitals’ ERs are not equipped …

Actor Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, “a cruel disease,” his family said in a statement posted on Thursday to the website of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. Willis was originally diagnosed with aphasia last year.  His family said at the time that he was “stepping away” from …

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). A growing number of desperate parents are bringing their mentally ill kids to emergency rooms, even as most hospitals’ ERs are not equipped …

A naloxone nasal spray should be sold over-the-counter, a panel of the Food and Drug Administration’s outside advisers unanimously voted Wednesday, clearing the way for the regulator to broaden access to reversing drug overdoses. The spray works by temporarily reversing the effects of opioids, ranging from prescription painkillers to heroin …

New technology revolutionizes heart transplants New technology revolutionizes heart transplants 02:14 It was moments with his kids that made Jason Banner decide to take a chance on a new method of heart transplantation.  The single father of two discovered in 2005 he had a genetic heart condition. Last year, he …

A Manhattan man’s discussion with his orthopedic surgeon days before his total hip replacement surgery resulted in a stunning discovery about his heart.  David Holland, 57, said his orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Vladimir Shur, PhD and chief of trauma service in the Department of Orthopedics at Mount Sinai-Beth Israel in New …

Oyewale Tomori is a virologist and fellow at the Nigerian Academy of Science. In February, World Health Organization officials confirmed an outbreak in Equatorial Guinea of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and Usifo Omozokpea …

A new form of birth control for men is showing promising results in lab mice, rendering them “temporarily infertile” via a single injectable dose, according to a study published on Tuesday in the peer-reviewed medical journal Nature. “Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended; thus, existing family planning options are …

Hannah Crabtree got active on Twitter in 2016 to find more people like herself: those with Type 1 diabetes who’d hacked their insulin pumps to automatically adjust the amount of insulin delivered. Soon, though, Crabtree found a more critical diabetes-related conversation happening on Twitter: rising insulin prices. Crabtree’s mother, who …