New medications are brightening the outlook for people with heart failure. But before any drug reaches your pharmacy or medicine cabinet, it gets tested in clinical trials to make sure that it’s safe and it works. If you are Black or Hispanic, you might be surprised to learn that many heart failure drugs were tested …
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The following story contains spoilers for Netflix’s Beef. SOMETIMES, THE smallest things can go the longest way. When we meet Danny (Steven Yeun) at the start of Beef, the dark comedy ride from Netflix and A24, he’s returning a number of Hibachi grills to a hardware store (grills bought with the intent of being used …
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LOOK AROUND ANY gym these days, and you’ll see lots of exposed skin while your fellow exercisers sweat. You’ll also see lots of ink, since many of the people around you are likely to have adorned their most visible body parts with tattoos (32 percent of US adults have at least one tattoo, according to …
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By Samantha Payne Smith, as told to Keri Wiginton I got married in 2014. I remember waking up with numb feet a couple months after we bought our house. But I didn’t think much of it at the time. I could always feel the floor again once I’d finished brushing my teeth. Later on, the …
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By Caroline Craven, as told to Hallie Levine I learned I had MS almost 20 years ago, in 2001. I was only 35, yet I couldn’t walk or see without assistance. Today, I’m thriving. It’s so important for patients with MS to know that their diagnosis is not a death sentence. With the proper treatments, the …
By Ann Marie Johnson, as told to Shishira Sreenivas I was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) on New Year’s Eve in 2002. I was 32. At that time, I had just started embarking on my career in Brooklyn, NY. I just graduated from grad school and had started my new job, and I was …
By Jacqueline Rosenthal, MD, as told to Keri Wiginton Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects everyone in a different way. But let’s talk a little bit about the differences we see between racial and ethnic groups when it comes to diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment. I’ll preface that by saying we need a lot more research in this …
Feb. 21, 2024 – Eyeglasses are ubiquitous. More people wear them than don’t, with some 62% of Americans wearing corrective eyewear in any number of shapes and styles. And that doesn’t even account for the 45 million of us who wear contact lenses. But the same is not true of hearing aids. Only 1 in …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters will decide March 5 whether to pump billions more dollars into combating the nation’s worst homelessness crisis, an investment Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom argues will finally provide the housing and treatment so badly needed by tens of thousands of homeless people. Newsom is spearheading Proposition 1, a $6.4 billion bond …
TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — Andrew McClave Jr. loved to lift weights. The 6-foot-4-inch bartender resembled a bodybuilder and once posed for a photo flexing his muscles with former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan. “He was extremely dedicated to it,” said his father, Andrew McClave Sr., “to the point where it was almost like he missed his …
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