Bill Belichick's girlfriend Jordon Hudson has been criticized after being filmed at a University of North Carolina practice session while her partner was hard at work
PRO PUBLICA – Frustration with insurers is at an all-time high.
The December fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson allegedly by Luigi Mangione serves as an extreme and tragic example.
Doctors and insurers are locked into a perpetual conflict over health care costs, with patients caught in the middle. Doctors accuse insurance plans of blocking payments for health care treatments that can save the patients’ lives.
Insurance companies insist they shouldn’t pay for procedures that...
CBS News – An estimated 20% of Americans suffer from GERD, a chronic form of acid reflux that goes beyond occasional heartburn.
What causes acid reflux?
"The stomach loves acid, it helps with digestion. The esophagus, the swallowing tube, hates acid," CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook, who is a gastroenterologist at NYU Langone Health, explained.
"Fortunately, there's a valve in between the stomach and the esophagus that stops acid from bubbling up and giving...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants.
Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama.
In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the...
Medical Xpress – Exercise therapy is suggested as a first-line treatment to improve joint pain and loss of function caused by osteoarthritis (OA), a musculoskeletal disorder that affects more than 595 million people worldwide.
Yoga and strengthening exercises are both known to be effective ways of managing knee OA, but is one better than the other?
A study that compared yoga and strengthening exercises head-to-head for knee OA found that despite their distinct mechanisms for relieving...