How intermittent fasting affects female hormones: New evidence comes from study of pre- and post-menopausal obese women on the ‘warrior diet’
Intermittent fasting has been shown to be an effective way to lose weight, but critics have worried that the practice may have a negative impact on women’s reproductive hormones. Now, a team of University of Illinois Chicago researchers has published a study in Obesity that brings new evidence to the table. The researchers, led by […]
How One Children’s Hospital Is Confronting a ‘Sick Season’ Surge
Children have been presenting in large numbers and with more severe viral illnesses than typically seen, physicians at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) said. The CHOP healthcare system, which includes two hospitals and more than 600 beds, is still grappling with a high volume of pediatric patients with viral infections, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), […]
Opinion | What My 10-Year-Old Taught Me About Boundaries
My youngest daughter turned 10 on Saturday. I have been in awe of the privilege, joy, and honor I have been given in raising my beautiful, spirited, brilliant, and incredibly loving kids. One of the most unexpected, amusing, and honestly humbling things I experience with my kids comes from my work as a personal and […]
Opinion | FDA Can Make Us Healthier Than ‘Healthy’
There’s been a lot of buzz over FDA’s move to redefine what can be labeled a “healthy” food. In a proposed rulemaking rolled out on the morning of the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health last month, FDA made some hefty claims about this long-awaited initiative. The agency predicted that redefining which […]
Air pollution tips the scale for obesity in women
Obesity has been a major global health issue in recent decades as more people eat unhealthy diets and fail to exercise regularly. A new University of Michigan study suggests there is another factor that tips the scale in women’s weight, body mass index, waist circumference and body fat — air pollution. Women in their late […]
Combining time-restricted eating and HIIT improves health measures in women with obesity
Both time-restricted eating (TRE) and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) have been shown to improve cardiometabolic health in people who are overweight and at risk of serious disease. Now a randomized, controlled trial has tested whether combining these two approaches is more effective than either of them on their own. The results, publishing in the journal […]
Three Adjuvant Immunotherapy Trials Flop in Renal Cell Carcinoma
PARIS — While pembrolizumab (Keytruda) has been approved as an adjuvant treatment for patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma (RCC), three phase III studies presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) annual congress here failed to support the immune checkpoint inhibitor in this setting. In Part A of the CheckMate-914 trial, the median […]
Opinion | Two Years of Excess Deaths: What Can We Learn?
Has anyone noticed that the nation has been going through a 3-month surge in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations that is just now beginning to abate? The CDC community levels on July 28 reported over 80% of counties at medium or high risk levels, an all-time high since the CDC began reporting such information back in […]
Kentucky Nurse Accused of Killing Elderly Patient
A former Kentucky nurse has been indicted for murder in the death of a patient at a Lexington hospital. According to a Lexington Police Department statement, Eyvette Renee Hunter, 52, was indicted and arrested Tuesday for distributing lorazepam (Ativan) on April 30 to James Morris, age 97, against orders from a nurse practitioner and physician […]
Opinion | Can Radical Empathy Fix Our Healthcare System?
The history of medicine has been a long story of increasingly minute specialization. When we celebrate momentous breakthroughs in healing — authorizing the COVID-19 vaccine or performing the first successful heart transplant — what we applaud is the ability of our researchers and physicians to zero in on one condition and deliver increasingly efficient treatments […]