From milk to meat to vegetables, food recalls surged in 2024. Food safety experts suggest consumer demand for convenience could be part of the problem. Convenience brings risk. The additional handling steps required to bring those further prepared foods to the dinner table create more opportunities for pathogenic contamination. Increased globalization, too, means more chances …
AT THE BEGINNING of a new year, it’s always natural to assess your routines, setups, and plans. One of those that often gets overlooked is your sleep setup, because if you’re going hard on a new fitness routine but aren’t getting the proper sleep, well kiss those gains goodbye. After months of testing, our editors …
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PUSHING YOUR LIMITS in the gym can be fulfilling as you build muscle and strength and develop even more intangible traits like discipline and toughness. For some guys though, that’s not enough. They feel the need to compare their hard-earned gains against others, and hitting benchmark numbers becomes the main motivator. That leads to the …
I’m Zachary Zane, a sex columnist and author of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto. Over the years, I’ve had my fair share of sexual experiences, dating and sleeping with hundreds of people of all genders and orientations. In doing so, I’ve learned a thing or two about navigating issues in the bedroom (and many other …
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MUCH HAS BEEN made of the “loneliness epidemic.” During the summer of 2023, surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy laid out a framework for Americans to alleviate loneliness and isolation due to the dire health risks it poses. Per a report by the Department of Health & Human Services, these include “a 29 percent increased risk …
THEY CALL IT the Wild West for a good reason. Netflix’s newest limited series is that of American Primeval, a bloody and violent look into the Mormons’ attempts to settle and develop a home in Utah. Along with the Mormons are those of the Shoshone tribe, and a woman (Betty Gilpin) and her son looking …
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TOPLINE: Prostate-specific membrane antigen–positron emission tomography (PSMA-PET) detected metastatic disease in 46% of patients with high-risk prostate cancer previously classified as nonmetastatic by conventional imaging. Results were positive in 84% of patients, with polymetastatic disease found in 24% of cases. METHODOLOGY: Recurrent nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer is characterized by increasing prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels while …
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Family care physicians are seeing steady or gradual improvements in several key aspects of running their practices, according to the “Family Medicine Practice Issues Report 2024” by Medscape Medical News. The report was based on data from several Medscape surveys conducted between January and June 2024. Among the report’s findings: Family medicine physicians (23%) were …
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MRI-invisible prostate lesions. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction and fantasy, a creation from the minds of H.G. Wells, who wrote The Invisible Man, or J.K. Rowling, who authored the Harry Potter series. But MRI-invisible prostate lesions are real. And what these lesions may, or may not, indicate is the subject of intense …
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Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) may reactivate latent herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) in the brain and contribute to neurodegeneration and development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, a new study suggested. Using a three-dimensional (3D) human brain tissue model, researchers observed that quiescent HSV-1 can be reactivated by a mechanical jolt mimicking concussion, leading …
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