What does weight-inclusive health care mean? A dietitian explains what providers do to end weight stigma
Weight-inclusive health care means a focus on better health with no weight loss required.
Dec 7, 2023
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Weight-inclusive health care means a focus on better health with no weight loss required.
Dec 7, 2023
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Anti-abortion organizations are pushing state lawmakers to promote a controversial and unproven "abortion reversal" treatment—flouting the objections of medical professionals who point out it is not supported by science.
Dec 6, 2023
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A study of more than 20,000 middle-aged U.S. adults found that lower-income status was associated with an increased risk for hypertension compared to other middle-aged adults with higher incomes. Those with higher incomes ...
Nov 21, 2023
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A new research article from Thomas Stewart, an associate professor of data science at the University of Virginia, examining the COVID-19 treatment fluvoxamine has been published in JAMA.
Nov 20, 2023
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When Vernon Langford sees patients, he typically wears a white lab coat with his title—"Dr."—and his credentials as a nurse practitioner stitched on the front.
Nov 20, 2023
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Opioid prescribing by physicians and other health professionals has decreased for the 13th consecutive year, down nearly 50% since 2012, while overdoses and deaths related to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, xylazine, and ...
Nov 16, 2023
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An updated position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine supports the replacement of daylight saving time with permanent standard time.
Oct 31, 2023
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In the United States, "conversion therapy" for LGBTQ people has been widely condemned by major medical associations. Not only that, nearly half of the country has now banned the practice for minors.
Oct 5, 2023
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The way Sheldon Haleck's parents see it, the 38-year-old's only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, shocked him with a Taser, ...
Oct 4, 2023
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Growing up on the South Side of Chicago as the child of Mexican immigrants who primarily spoke Spanish, Dr. Daniel Meza was often asked to translate for his parents during medical appointments.
Sep 21, 2023
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