Something small is happening in bathrooms around the world every night, and it has nothing to do with a new skincare routine or an expensive shower head. Women are turning off the lights before stepping into the shower, standing in near darkness under warm water for 15 to 20 minutes, and then reporting that they’re...
What separates someone who changes an industry from someone who simply works hard within one? Ask a dozen business professors and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Resilience. Vision. Risk tolerance. Raw intelligence. But a neuroscientist looking at the habits of some of history’s most accomplished minds keeps arriving at the same unexpected answer, and...
Most people spend more time planning a family vacation than they spend preparing for Medicare. That might not sound alarming until you realize that the choices you make at 65 – or in many cases before you turn 65 – can follow your bank account for the rest of your life. A wrong step here...
Most people living with high blood pressure have heard the same short list of causes: too much salt, too little exercise, weight gain, stress. Those factors are real, and managing them matters. But for a substantial portion of people, even doing everything right – eating well, taking prescribed medications, cutting sodium – the numbers on...
There’s a version of the GLP-1 weight loss story that most patients hear, and then there’s the one orthopedic surgeons are quietly telling each other at conferences. Both are true. Neither one is complete without the other. Millions of Americans are now using semaglutide (sold as Ozempic and Wegovy) or tirzepatide (sold as Mounjaro and...
Three people dead on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. A rodent-borne virus spreading, perhaps, between human beings in close quarters. The World Health Organization is scrambling to contain a cluster of cases spanning multiple continents in a matter of days. For anyone who lived through the early, unnerving months of...
Millions of people are injecting semaglutide or tirzepatide every week, and for most of them, the conversation about side effects starts and ends with nausea. The package insert mentions it. Their doctor warned them about it. They’ve probably experienced it. But there is a second conversation happening, one that takes place not in clinic waiting...
Something has quietly shifted in oncology waiting rooms. For decades, a cancer diagnosis before age 50 was the exception – an anomaly that prompted immediate genetic counseling and a search for hereditary causes. Today, doctors describe a different picture. Patients are arriving younger. The average age at diagnosis for certain cancers has dropped by years...
Millions of people have used Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro to lose significant weight or manage their blood sugar. And for many, the medication has worked remarkably well. But here’s what most people never get told when they start: stopping is a completely different challenge from starting. Whether you’re thinking about coming off because of cost,...
Somewhere in your family tree, there may be a name you’ve never looked up. A grandmother who crossed the border decades ago. A great-grandfather who worked in the mills. A line in a census record that nobody ever followed. For millions of Americans, that overlooked branch of the family could now have very real legal...
Dr. Cedrek McFadden, a board-certified colorectal and general surgeon with over 20 years of clinical experience at Prisma Health in Greenville, South Carolina, recently shared five questions he believes every patient should ask their doctor about lab results. McFadden – who serves as a clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of South Carolina...
Martin Pistorius, age 49, emerged from a mysterious coma with a tale of endurance, resilience, and an eventual triumph.1 His extraordinary journey unravels the intricate challenges Pistorius and his family faced as they navigated the complex landscape of an extended vegetative state. A Mysterious Path to His Coma At the age of 12, Martin’s life...
