Health and Fitness

The FDA will require manufacturers of opioid drugs that are dispensed in outpatient settings to provide prepaid mail-back envelopes to outpatient pharmacies and other dispensers, the agency announced Monday. The move is part of the FDA’s comprehensive approach to addressing the overdose crisis, according to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD. “We believe these efforts will …

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Female sex, early age at menopause, and hormone therapy use each were associated with higher regional tau in cognitively normal people with elevated beta-amyloid, cross-sectional PET data showed. The highest levels of tau were seen in hormone therapy users who had a delay of more than 5 years between menopause onset and the start of …

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Muscle pain from moderate physical activity wasn’t any worse for statin users than nonusers, even for those who reported preexisting statin-associated muscle symptoms (SAMS), a prospective study showed. Individuals who entered a program of walking 30 to 50 km (about 19 to 31 miles) daily for 4 days started and ended up with the same …

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Third-party tracking is used on almost all U.S. hospital websites, endangering patient privacy, a cross-sectional observational study found. Of 3,747 hospitals included in the 2019 American Hospital Association (AHA) annual survey, 98.6% of their website home pages had at least one third-party data transfer, and 94.3% had at least one third-party cookie. “In the U.S., …

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Jon Bernthal is getting ready to reprise the role of Frank Castle, better known as The Punisher, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—and the bad guys better watch out because the actor isn’t pulling any punches. In a recent gym video shared to Instagram by Slink Proper, Bernthal shows off his fighting form while performing boxing …

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All steakhouses should be sent to jail. Because charging customers an arm and a shank for a meal that they could otherwise prepare at home for a fraction of the time and pomp (would you like black truffle shavings on that, sir?)—that’s highway robbery. At their collective trial, I guess that these thieving steakhouses could …

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Fans of the hugely popular Super Mario Bros. video games were baffled and a little irked last year when it was announced that Chris Pratt would be voicing the world’s most famous Italian plumber in a new animated film. But he is confident that The Super Mario Bros. Movie is good enough to prove the …

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SALMON ALWAYS SEEMS like a good idea. You know it’s a strong source of protein. You know that it contains massive amounts of all those heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids everyone is always talking about. And you know that there are a few times that you’ve ordered salmon at a restaurant and it tasted pretty delicious. So …

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Rumors have been swirling in the Yellowstone universe, and the drama reached a new level when all of the show’s major stars pulled out of PaleyFest, seemingly at the last minute. PaleyFest is an annual fan event hosted by the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles. It bills itself as the “nation’s premiere television …

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Less than a year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it’s already clear how severe abortion restrictions or bans in about two dozen states are influencing how medical professionals consider their futures. The limitations around the country are causing consternation throughout teaching hospitals and academic medicine, even where abortion is legal. Healthcare leaders …

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