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Mayo Clinic Minute: Sleep and heart health

Mayo Clinic News Network – Does how much you sleep affect your heart? According to health officials, adults who sleep fewer than seven hours each night are more likely to experience health problems. Dr. Juan Cardenas Rosales, an internal medicine physician at Mayo Clinic, stresses that adequate sleep is crucial for your overall well-being, including your heart health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute Getting a good night's sleep can give you the energy to jump-start your day and your...

DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System

At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED.

Foods to Avoid If You Have Anxiety or Depression

Fruit Juice The fiber in whole fruit fills you up and slows down how your blood takes in energy. Without that fiber, you’re just drinking nutritious sugar-water that can quickly hype you up -- and bring you down just as fast. That can leave you hungry and angry -- “hangry.” That won't help anxiety and depression. Eat your fruit whole. When you’re thirsty, drink water. Regular Soda There's no win for you here: It has all of the...

Subway is bringing back discounted footlongs

CNN – Subway is resurrecting its discounted footlong promotion, as stubbornly high inflation has led to a sluggish start to the year across the fast-food industry. Restaurant chains have scrambled over the past year to attract customers who are fed up with high prices. Although some have succeeded with limited-time promotions, others like McDonald’s, Chili’s and Taco Bell have found more success with offering value meals. Americans continue to be willing to spend – if they feel...

Mayo Clinic Minute: Alcohol and cancer risk

Mayo Clinic News Network – The Office of the Surgeon General recently released a new Advisory on Alcohol and Cancer Risk. It outlines a connection between drinking alcohol and increased risk of cancer, specifically cancers of the mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus, breast, liver and colon. The advisory has recommendations to increase awareness, including updating the existing Surgeon General's health warning label on alcohol-containing beverages. According to Dr. Donald Hensrud, a Mayo Clinic physician specializing in preventive medicine and...

Flu vaccine this season may be poorly matched, early CDC data suggests

Against the H3N2 strain of influenza, which this season has made up just over half of the influenza A viruses scrutinized by the agency, only around 50.9% of the samples were "well-recognized" by the antibodies.

We Tasted 13 Frozen Pizzas and This Is the Best

AOL – We all love pizza. We love it so much that we won't be stopped even if we can't get it fresh, and nowhere is that more evident than the shelves of the frozen section of any grocery store. So many different brands and styles line the walls, but which actually has the best bang for your buck? We went straight to the source (the grocery store), and taste-tested a ton of 'em to find...

Good news for tea lovers: That daily brew might be purifying the water, too.

"Our work highlights the unrecognized potential for tea consumption to passively contribute to reduced heavy metal exposure... "

Some Antidepressants Could Speed Decline in Dementia Patients

The team found a clear relationship between this medication and severe dementia.

“ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN COMMISSION”

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre‑COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years. This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population. Six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease, and four...

With RFK Jr. in Charge, Supplement Makers See Chance To Cash In

KFF HEALTH NEWS – Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Trump administration would liberate Americans from the FDA’s “aggressive suppression” of vitamins, dietary supplements, and other substances — ending the federal agency’s “war on public health,” as he put it. In fact, the FDA can’t even require that supplements be effective before they are sold. When Congress, at the agency’s urging, last considered legislation to require...

Dumb Mistakes E.R. Doctors Wish You’d Avoid

THE NEW YORK TIMES – It’s pretty hard to shock an emergency physician. “We see the worst of the worst, and the silliest of the silliest,” Abdullah Pratt, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Chicago Medicine, told me recently. I was chatting with him about the situations he’d witnessed in the E.R., specifically the ones that made him change his own behavior. To start, he told me, he would never wear Crocs when...

5 Exercises to Improve Your Balance and Age Well

Falls are the second-leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide, worldwide, with people over 60 suffering the highest number.

Chicken Caesar wraps sold in vending machines recalled over undeclared fish

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – LPK1, of Renton, WA, is recalling approximately 303 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken Caesar wrap products because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The product’s individually-wrapped Caesar dressing packet contains fish (anchovies), a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label. The problem was discovered by the establishment during a routine quality assurance check of ingredient labels. The...

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