Health

The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York rung up its first sales on Thursday, opening up what is expected to be one of the country’s most lucrative markets for cannabis — underscored by the dozens of unauthorized shops that have operated in the open for years. The …

Ian Hamilton is an associate professor of addiction and mental health at the University of York and Sally Marlow is an addictions researcher at King’s College London. It’s a new year and many people are in the mood for making a fresh start. And that often means giving something up …

Measles is spreading among children in Ohio two months after cases were first detected. As of Wednesday morning, there are at least 82 cases of measles in central Ohio, officials said, all of which are children.  Columbus Public Health first announced an investigation into the outbreak on Nov. 9 after …

Some 90,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States each year — which is roughly a 50% increase from previous estimated incidence rates, according to a recent 2022 Parkinson’s Foundation-backed study.  “The soaring numbers of Parkinson’s disease cases will lead to more falls, more hip fractures …

Megan Edgelow is an assistant professor of health sciences at Queen’s University, Ontario. The word “routine” can bring to mind words like mundane or ordinary. During the pandemic’s disruptions to daily life, routines may have felt boring and restrictive. However, as an occupational therapist and researcher of the impact of activity and …

You wouldn’t know it by looking at him, but 4-year-old Jake Schumacher was born with serious heart defects.  After cardiac surgery when he was just 5 months old, he needed another procedure to place a stent to improve blood flow through the heart.  “It was pretty hard, because I just …

In an effort to ease the nation’s organ shortage, scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones. Workers in a suburban Minneapolis lab dissolve pig cells that made the organ function, leaving ghostly semitranslucent scaffolds floating in large jars. To complete the metamorphosis, they infuse those …

Mark Canada is the executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Indiana University Kokomo and Christina Downey is a professor of psychology at Indiana University. If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution, your plot for self-improvement probably kicks into gear sometime on Jan. 1, when the hangover wears off and …

A woman who lost her soulmate to a fentanyl overdose reflected on her struggle with grief during the holidays and offered advice to others who may be suffering from the loss of a loved one.  “Grief becomes heavier during the holidays,” Gwen Dudley, a recovering addict, told Fox News. “Everything …

The spread of influenza, or the Flu, is starting to decrease in several areas across the U.S. after many hospitals reported an irregularly high number of Flu-related admissions this season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the number of flu-related hospital admissions fell for the second week …