Health

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 …

People who have diabetes along with elevated blood sugar levels face a significantly higher risk of being hospitalized with severe illness from COVID-19, according to a review by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), which is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Each year, the federation publishes its IDF Diabetes Atlas, which summarizes …

Theirs is the most improbable of love stories — but the heart works in mysterious ways.  Taylor Givens, 29, and Collin Kobelja, 34, received heart transplants on the same day at Virginia’s Inova Fairfax hospital in 2011 and were recovering in neighboring rooms. It was Givens’ first transplant after she …

While COVID-19 may be here to stay, the panic-inducing early days of the pandemic finally appear to be in the rearview mirror.  Cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to trend downward, per the latest CDC data, and the public health emergency for COVID is set to expire on May 11 of …

The train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 was filled with several hazardous chemical compounds, documents from the railway company show — including the residue of one that is known for its link to genetic mutations.  During the accident, 38 rail cars derailed and an additional 12 …

The stance by the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) on face masks has taken many twists and turns throughout the COVID pandemic. After initially claiming face coverings weren’t necessary, the CDC changed course in April 2020, calling on all Americans — even children as young as 2 years …

When Dr. Sandra Nichols had a massive heart attack, she didn’t tell anyone outside her immediate family.  At the time, she was working too much, not sleeping enough and says she felt the burden of being everything to everyone.  “I was embarrassed,” she said.  Despite her medical training, she didn’t …