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Cola-Cola Interested in Cannabis for Wellness Drinks

The Coca-Cola Company said Monday it is “closely watching” the expanding use of a cannabis element in drinks, another sign cannabis and cannabis-infused products are getting more acceptance in mainstream culture and a harder look from long-established pillars of American business. The statement came after reports the beverage giant was in talks with a Canadian […]

Study Finds Vivid Memories Linger Long after Sexual Assault

Women who experience sexual assault have more vivid memories than women coping with the aftermath of other traumatic, life-altering events, according to a new study. The research finds that women who experience sexual violence, including those never diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, have more intense memories—even decades after the violence occurred—that are difficult, if not […]

Hurricane Florence Will Leave Health Dangers Behind

Although Florence has decreased from a powerful hurricane to a tropical depression, its effects could still spread potentially life-threatening diseases and illnesses. The Department of Health and Human Services declared public health emergencies in the Carolinas as well as Virginia last week. Read More

Doctors Debunk High Cholesterol Risks

DOCTORS have found there is no evidence of a link between high levels of bad cholesterol and heart disease, a study says. And with this claim, a number of leading cardiologists say statins, taken by millions of Brits to tackle cholesterol, don’t have any benefit. Read More

NIH: An Aspirin a Day Won’t Keep You Alive

In a large clinical trial to determine the risks and benefits of daily low-dose aspirin in healthy older adults without previous cardiovascular events, aspirin did not prolong healthy, independent living (life free of dementia or persistent physical disability). Risk of dying from a range of causes, including cancer and heart disease, varied and will require […]

Meharry Medical College Launches Data Science Institute

Meharry Medical College launched a new Data Science Institute last week that will shed insight into health challenges and disparities and fuel innovation in treating minority and underserved populations. Led by Amy M. Andrade, senior advisor to the president for technology and innovation and assistant vice president of research at Meharry, the institute includes more […]

Looming Oligopoly?

If President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions care about affordable health care, they will stop the Department of Justice from approving proposed mergers in the pharmaceutical industry. The Wall Street Journal reports the Justice Department plans to approve mergers of CVS Health with Aetna, and Express Scripts with Cigna. It means two of […]

17 Health Care Systems Launch Project for Underserved

Seventeen health systems, encompassing 280 hospitals—5 percent of the hospitals in the country—have come together to figure out financially sustainable solutions to the problem of how to improve health care for underserved people and their families. Read More

HIV Research Yields Dividends Across Medical Fields

Since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States 37 years ago, the National Institutes of Health has invested more than $69 billion in the understanding, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Beyond the development of life-saving medications and innovative prevention modalities, such research has led to numerous advances outside the HIV field, […]

Food Safety Scares Up in 2018

Matt Arteaga, 51, is one of about 500 people who got sick this summer in an outbreak linked to McDonald’s salads. The cause was a parasite, cyclospora. Arteaga fell ill on a Thursday afternoon in June. He was in his office in Danville, Ill., when he says the symptoms came on quickly. “The chills, and […]

The ‘Mona Lisa’ Allure: Could It Be the Result of Thyroid Disease?

Mona Lisa’s smile is often described as enigmatic, but could the mysterious allure of this iconic painting actually be due to an underlying illness in “Lisa” herself? At least one doctor thinks so. In a Letter to the Editor in the September issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a cardiologist and his colleague take […]

Disparities Among Preemies May Be Wider Than Thought

A new study suggests that black and Hispanic premature babies, compared with white premature babies, had a two- to four-fold increased risk of four severe neonatal health problems. Those health problems included necrotizing enterocolitis, which impacts tissue in the intestine, and intraventricular hemorrhage, which is bleeding in certain areas of the brain, both of which […]

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