How sweet! A daily dose of dark chocolate may cut your risk of …
Dec 5, 2024 · The idea that eating cocoa-rich, dark chocolate may offer health benefits is not new. Cocoa is loaded with compounds called polyphenols that have been shown to help our bodies fend off inflammation, lower blood pressure and maybe even improve our moods.. Now, a new study finds people who have a habit of eating a little dark chocolate — about an ounce per day — have a 21% lower risk of ...
Why this Florida mom had to go out-of-state for abortion care, …
Nov 1, 2024 · Thea Thompson is a nurse who recently had to travel out-of-state to receive abortion care for a fatal fetal abnormality. She tried to get treatment in Florida, but says she faced barriers due legal concerns about how to qualify for an exception to …
A Florida maker of medical devices declares bankruptcy amid …
Oct 30, 2024 · A photo submitted to a federal court with an Exactech vice president’s affidavit shows a view of manufacturing of the Optetrak Logic finned tibial tray at Exactech’s Gainesville headquarters in January 2022.
Analyzing what RFK Jr. said on 'Morning Edition' about his health ...
Nov 7, 2024 · STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President-elect Trump said a lot while campaigning, and in the days ahead, we learn what his administration will do. In the campaign's final days, Trump said he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quote, "go wild" on health.
Nationwide IV fluid shortage changing how hospitals manage …
Nov 22, 2024 · Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid bags to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV fluid hydration altogether.
As RSV levels rise in Florida, vaccine levels remain low
Dec 8, 2024 · RSV was in full swing throughout November, but vaccine levels for it and other respiratory diseases remain low - especially in high-risk populations.
The flu shot is different this year, thanks to COVID
Oct 17, 2024 · This year’s flu shot will be missing a strain of influenza it’s protected against for more than a decade. That’s because there have been no confirmed flu cases caused by the Influenza B/Yamagata lineage since spring 2020. And the Food and Drug Administration decided this year that the strain now poses little to no threat to human health.
Trump makes health picks, including Brevard ex-congressman …
Nov 23, 2024 · President-elect Donald Trump rounded out his health team on Friday night. He chose Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Republican congressman from Brevard County, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a general practitioner, to be surgeon general; and Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, as head of …
It's unclear what will happen with federal HIV programs when …
Dec 3, 2024 · A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: More patients than ever are being successfully treated with medications in a federal HIV/AIDS program. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports from a community center in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. surgeon general wants cancer warnings on alcohol. Here's …
Updated January 03, 2025 at 12:03 PM ET. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling on Congress to require health warning labels that inform consumers about the link between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer.