My Incurable Condition Is A Potential Ozempic Side Effect. Trust Me — Weight Loss Isn’t Worth This.
Boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter on April 17 in Los Angeles. Mario Tama via Getty Images In case you’ve been living under a rock and missed the hype, Ozempic is an injectable diabetes drug that’s become popular as an off-label medication for weight loss. It mimics GLP-1, a naturally […]
More Black Men Are Dying By Suicide. We Need To Address It.
On May 3, Lance Blanks, a retired NBA player who spent the rest of his career as an NBA executive and an analyst for an ESPN affiliate network, died by suicide. He was 56. “But the fact is we will never truly know why. And we don’t need to. All we need to do is […]
Opinion | The Uncomfortable Truth About Comfortable Scrubs
We love joggers. If we had to pick a piece of clothing to wear every day for the rest of our lives, it would be joggers. We wear them constantly — outside the hospital, that is. These days, this choice makes us an anomaly. Like the ubiquitous clogs in the OR, jogger-style scrubs have taken […]
Strict Rest Not Recommended After Sports-Linked Concussion, Experts Say
Latest Neurology News WEDNESDAY, June 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) Strict rest isn’t advised after athletes suffer a concussion because it could slow their recovery, an updated consensus statement from a U.S. expert panel says. Most adult athletes fully recover within two weeks and children within four, according to the statement published June 15 […]
COVID Surges Emerge; FDA Warns About Chantix; Lions, Tigers, Bears Get Vaxxed
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. While the rest of the country celebrated Independence Day, a sudden rise in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations — especially among Black residents — put a damper on the holiday spirit in Los Angeles County. (Los Angeles Times) A hospital in hard-hit Springfield, Missouri ran out of […]