A nationwide FDA recall targets a three-in-one hypertension tablet that may not dissolve as intended, and patients are being urged not to quit their medicine on their own.
Thousands of patients who rely on a single pill to keep their blood pressure in check may want to take a closer look at their medicine cabinets…
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The popular hydration fix has a time and a place, and medical experts say for most people, every day isn’t it
Walk into any gym, gas station or grocery store checkout lane, and the evidence is hard to miss. Electrolyte drinks, from neon sports beverages to single-serve powder packets, have become a fixture of the…
Two leading stroke specialists reveal the everyday choices that quietly raise stroke risk and why most strokes are preventable
Stroke rarely announces itself in advance. The conditions that set the stage, such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol, tend to hum along quietly for years, causing no pain and few clues until the damage…
A two-month outbreak, a missing federal response and unmonitored workers have experts asking who is really watching for the next pandemic
For two months, a bird flu outbreak has moved quietly through a fur farm about an hour outside Salt Lake City, where thousands of mink are raised for their pelts. The public learned the…
A new White House task force and NIH division promise to close long-standing gaps in women’s medicine, even as the administration’s broader health record raises questions.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating a White House task force and a new division at the National Institutes of Health dedicated to women’s health,…
Energy drinks aren’t automatically dangerous for healthy adults, but they’re far from harmless. Harvard Health and doctors at Northwestern Medicine say one can once in a while is the ceiling, never a daily habit. Anyone with high blood pressure or heart disease, pregnant or breastfeeding women and kids should skip them completely.
That skip list…
The EGOT winner says a rare repeat bout with shingles forced her to rethink what strength really looks like
Viola Davis has built a career playing women who refuse to break. Offscreen, the EGOT winner recently found herself in a fight she never saw coming, and one that she says nearly knocked her flat.
In…
That bottle promising brighter, whiter eyes may be covering up something your optometrist needs to see
For a body part that does so much heavy lifting, the eyes get remarkably little attention. Roughly 4 in 10 Americans are considered at high risk for vision loss, and 40% of that group skipped an eye exam in…
Constant fatigue is more than feeling tired after a long week. It is exhaustion that lingers for weeks, does not improve with rest and makes ordinary tasks feel heavy. The most common causes include poor sleep, sleep apnea, anemia, thyroid problems, diabetes, vitamin deficiencies, depression, heart disease, kidney disease and autoimmune conditions.
Most of these…
Breast cancer does not always announce itself with a lump. Early signs can include dimpling or puckered skin, a nipple that suddenly turns inward, swelling without a lump, unusual discharge, a change in breast size or shape, or skin that takes on an orange peel texture. Any of these, if new or unusual for you,…

