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...
For most people, radiation and heart treatment exist in entirely separate mental categories. Radiation is for tumors. The heart is treated with drugs, stents, and surgeons threading catheters through blood vessels. That clean division, however, is quietly beginning to blur – and a study published in April 2026 may represent one of the more significant...
Most of us know Roundup. That bright yellow bottle has lived in the garage for decades, or maybe in the shed at the family farm. You’ve seen it on the shelves of hardware stores, used it on a gravel driveway, or watched crop dusters lay it down over fields of corn and soybeans. For most...
Most people know Damon Wayans Sr. as the man who made generations laugh – from In Living Color to My Wife and Kids, his career has been built on the ability to find comedy in everyday life. But there’s a chapter of his story that isn’t funny at all, and for a while, it looked...
There’s something quietly striking about a person who can sit in the middle of a tense conversation without visibly flinching. Not because they’re cold, or indifferent, or hiding what they feel. They’re doing something far more deliberate: they’re choosing which stimuli deserve a physiological response and which don’t. Researchers studying emotional reactivity reduction in adults...
Most people don’t think of their daily meals as a factor in global mortality statistics. Yet the way billions of people eat, every single day, is quietly driving one of the largest preventable health crises the world has ever seen. We’re not talking about exotic toxins or rare diseases. We’re talking about common patterns, eating...
Most people spend more time picking an outfit for their doctor’s visit than actually preparing for it. You show up, answer the same questions about your family history, and walk out wondering why that one burning question slipped your mind again. Sound familiar? The good news is that a little advance planning — maybe 20...
Most people don’t think much about their eye lens until something starts going wrong. Maybe it’s that oncoming headlights seem unusually harsh at night, or the colors in a favorite painting look duller than they used to. Perhaps you keep updating your glasses prescription, and it still doesn’t feel quite right. These are the kinds...
Most people don’t think much about their body until something feels off. A cough that won’t quit. Fatigue that sleep doesn’t fix. A mole that looks slightly different from what it did six months ago. These moments pass through the mind quickly, then get filed under “probably nothing.” Sometimes that’s true. But sometimes that quiet...
Think about the people in your life who leave you feeling lighter after every interaction. You can’t always explain why. They didn’t solve your problems or say anything extraordinary. They just made you feel a little better for having been in the room with them. Most of us can name one or two of these...
Cruises are one of those vacations that look effortless until they aren’t. You book the trip of a lifetime, pack your bags, and then discover halfway through the voyage that a handful of avoidable decisions quietly drained the experience before it even started. The gap between a cruise that exceeds every expectation and one that...
Most people picture dementia as something that creeps up in old age, something that belongs to a distant future most of us would rather not think about too carefully. But the science is shifting that picture in an uncomfortable direction. A wave of large-scale research is identifying the dementia risk factors that accumulate long before...
