Health

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who heads the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has fired vaccine experts, rolled back key immunization recommendations and axed $500 million in research for promising mRNA vaccine technology. He’s vowed to put “gold …

Visceral fat—belly fat that wraps around your internal organs—isn’t just stubborn; it’s also linked to serious health risks like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and inflammation. It’s not a fat that you can see or feel, but an expanding waistline is one indication it’s there. While it can be challenging to lose–especially if you don’t have a good diet or …

A woman’s supposed pregnancy turned out to be something much stranger. In a recent report from her doctors, they detail how the woman had developed an incredibly rare form of ovarian cancer that mimicked the symptoms of pregnancy, even causing a positive pregnancy test. Doctors in India described the case of mistaken identity earlier this July in the journal Oncoscience. …

If you want to stay safe from mosquito-borne illnesses on one side and harsh chemicals on the other, the ideal solution is a natural predator of mosquito larvae — and Florida’s Brevard County has found one in the form of the mosquitofish. These fish may be tiny, a real small fry, but each one can eat 100 mosquito larvae a …

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas school districts are coming back from summer with a rising number of parents asking for vaccine exemption …

Black men in New York City face a variety of health challenges, including a disproportionately high rate of undiagnosed, life-threatening heart disease. Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan has been working with a nonprofit group called Real Dads Network to do something about it. The two have partnered to provide free heart health screenings, specifically targeting Black men, in hopes of …

Physician Brendan Phibbs, who wrote “The Other Side of Time: A Combat Surgeon in World War II,” said, “It is a merciful God that doesn’t let us see the future.”  But we all have dreams for that future, and so we went into public health knowing it was not a great approach to riches, and we also knew it was …

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New Research Suggests An Alarming Relationship Between COVID, Flu And Breast Cancer  HuffPost Respiratory viruses awaken dormant breast cancer cells and raise relapse risk  News-Medical Respiratory viruses like flu, coronavirus may trigger cancer relapse: Study  Business Standard COVID, the flu and other viral infections can re-awaken dormant breast cancer cells, new study in mice shows  Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Source link

The countdown to the return to school is on for many major Triangle-area traditional school systems, including Wake County and Durham County. Pediatricians say now is a critical time for parents to make plans to bring their children to see their family doctor for vaccinations. The North Carolina Department of Human Services Kindergarten Immunization Dashboard reports 93% of kindergarteners statewide …