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Many Americans May Be Taking Too Much Vitamin D
The vitamin is crucial for good bone health, according to the researchers. In 1999-2000, 0.3 percent of U.S. adults took 1,000 IUs or more of vitam...
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Supreme Court Lets Maines Vaccine Mandate Stand
The health care workers argued Maine was an “extreme outlier” compared to other states because its vaccine mandate lacks a religious exemption whil...
Read moreNew Yorks Largest Health Care Provider Fires 1,400 Unvaccinated Employees
As of last week, 87% of hospital staff were fully vaccinated, and 92% of hospital and retirement home workers had received at least one dose, accor...
Read moreVaccine Mandate Takes Effect for NY Health Care Workers
In New York City, about 5,000 employees at the city’s 11 public acute-care hospitals remain unvaccinated (out of a total of 43,000 employees), Mitc...
Read moreMen More Likely to Die from Stroke
A new study shows that despite the fact that men tend to have strokes at an earlier age than women, they face an 8% higher risk of death and 90% hi...
Read moreIs Prostate Cancer Overtreated?
Doctors began routinely offering anti-hormone treatment to prostate cancer patients after a large study in the 1990s showed that giving a short cou...
Read moreDIY Teeth-Straightening: Don't Try This At Home
The survey found that nearly 13 percent of the orthodontists said they'd had patients -- ranging from the age of 8 to over 60 -- who tried to fix t...
Read moreBabies with Cleft Lip: Normal Adulthood Likely
'These results are relatively good news for parents of children with cleft lip and cleft palate,' said lead researcher Dr. Erik Berg, who's with th...
Read moreCDC: Suicide Rates Rising Across U.S.
Firearms were found to be the most common method of suicide, again used by those both with and without mental health issues. They were the source o...
Read moreAspirin Benefit Differs for Men, Women
Berger, MD, and SUNY- Stony Brook researcher David L. Brown, MD, appears in the Jan. Myerburg, MD, director of cardiology at the University of Miam...
Read moreMercury Low in Wild and Farmed Salmon
Total mercury levels in the wild salmon tested were three times higher than in farmed, but total mercury intake from both types of fish was found t...
Read moreFood for Thought: Rickets on The Rise?
Rickets is a disease typically caused by vitamin D deficiency; the classic symptom is weakened or deformed bones. 'Throughout my pregnancy I read e...
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