Category: Health & Wellbeing

A new study builds on research suggesting that regular workouts might protect against longer-term health consequences. It’s a perennial dilemma when the alarm blares after a late night: Do you sacrifice an hour of rest to drag your body through a bleary workout? Or are you better off skipping the jog and sleeping in? In […]

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A new analysis examined deaths in Britain, where the company’s product was restricted in 2021 because of safety concerns. Young women who received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine made by AstraZeneca may have been more likely to die of a heart problem in the 12 weeks after their vaccination, according to an […]

By The New York Times •March 29, 2023 Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray, is now approved for over-the-counter sales and should be widely available by late summer. Experts say that these sprays can swiftly reverse an opioid overdose and are easy to use. Here’s how.

Most runners know that in order to get better, they need to train the major muscle groups that are activated during a run — the quads, the glutes, the hamstrings, the calves. But few think about training the muscles that allow them to breathe — specifically the diaphragm, said Kristen Konkol, an associate teaching professor […]

The F.D.A.’s decision to allow the overdose-reversing nasal spray to be sold over the counter means it will become much more widely available. Narcan, a nasal spray that can quickly reverse an opioid overdose, has now received federal approval to be sold over the counter. By late summer, it should be widely available — not […]

An email from her husband’s visiting boss about a higher-than-expected charge from dinner rattled a reader enough to send a check. Was it an overreaction? My husband’s boss, an executive at a multinational firm, came to our city on vacation and invited us to dinner. We made reservations at our favorite restaurant. When the bill […]

The nasal spray reverses opioid overdoses and public health officials hope that making it more widely available could save lives and reduce the nation’s high rates of drug fatalities. Narcan, a prescription nasal spray that reverses opioid overdoses, can now be sold over the counter, the Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday, authorizing a […]

Listen to This Article Audio Recording by Audm The roads surrounding the Jerusalén-San Luis Alto Picudito Indigenous reservation in Putumayo, Colombia, are treacherous on a good day. Made mostly of gravel and mud, they narrow to barely the width of a small truck in some places, and in others, especially after a storm, they yield […]

Los casos de este tipo de cáncer en los menores de 50 años están aumentando tanto en cantidad como en agresividad. Los científicos siguen buscando la razón de esta tendencia. En un estudio publicado por la Sociedad Estadounidense contra el Cáncer en marzo, los investigadores estimaron que, en 2023, 153.000 personas serán diagnosticadas con cáncer […]