If you’ve never heard of Juul before, try asking a teenager. The e-cigarette maker said it designed its product to help current smokers switch to something safer and healthier and that its own recent survey shows 64 percent of smokers who switched to the vape device dropped cigarettes completely. But the product is also popular
Read more →Eva Weiler was 20 weeks into pregnancy when doctors diagnosed her unborn daughter Alise with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, commonly called HLHS. “She has half a heart. Her left ventricle really doesn’t exist. The diagnosis is devastating and you look for anything that’s going to give you hope,” Weiler told CBS News. Children with HLHS
Read more →More than one-third of U.S. adults are taking prescription medications that may lead to depression, new research finds. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, warns that depression is a potential side effect of more than 200 commonly prescribed medications, including beta blockers for blood pressure, birth control pills, antacids, and
Read more →If you’re one of the majority of health-care consumers who purchase insurance through your employer, you know that premium increases and rising out-of-pocket costs aren’t confined to the health-care exchanges. Rising medical costs are also alive and well in the employer-sponsored insurance market. According to the Medical Cost Trend report released today from PwC’s Health
Read more →Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston has temporarily closed its world-renowned heart transplant program following an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica that revealed the departure of several top doctors and an unusual number of patient deaths in recent years. “You know, everybody said it was the best, the best place to go,”
Read more →New research suggests kitchen towels are a hotbed for germs that could potentially make you and your family sick. Researchers from the University of Mauritius tested 100 kitchen towels that had been used for a month and found that many carried pathogens that could lead to food poisoning. The study, presented at the annual meeting
Read more →It’s well-known that Americans consume too much sugar. But that affinity for the sweet stuff starts as early as infancy, with some babies consuming added sugar that exceeds maximum levels recommended for adults, U.S. researchers report. Eating foods with added sugar can influence a child’s food choices later in life. And added sugar has been
Read more →Xi’an Famous Foods, a popular Chinese restaurant chain in New York City, had humble beginnings, but the CEO says the family business has flourished thanks to the late Anthony Bourdain. Jason Wang, the son of the founder of Xi’an Famous Foods, wrote a lengthy and moving Facebook post about Bourdain after his death on June
Read more →A multi-state outbreak of Salmonella infections has been linked to pre-cut melon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced late Friday. It said eight states have been affected including Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. Sixty people were infected by the outbreak and 31 people were hospitalized, the CDC
Read more →ATLANTA — In videos posted online, Dr. Windell Davis-Boutte is both a dancing dermatologist and a singing surgeon. She mugs for the camera and raps with an unconscious patient inches away, cutting and cutting up in the same rhythmic moment. At least seven patients have sued her, accusing her of negligence. To prove it, they
Read more →Just days after fashion icon Kate Spade died by suicide, celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain, host of the CNN travel show “Parts Unknown,” was found dead in his hotel room in France at the age of 61. CNN confirmed the death, calling it a suicide. These high-profile deaths come the same week the CDC reported
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