Wegovy, the blockbuster weight reduction drug, is now permitted for a brand new use: lowering the danger of coronary heart assaults, strokes and cardiovascular-related dying in adults who’ve coronary heart illness and are obese or have weight problems. The new indication, which the Meals and Drug Administration introduced on Friday, will pave the way in…

The demise certificates for Ryan Bagwell, a 19-year-old from Mission, Texas, states that he died from a fentanyl overdose. His mom, Sandra Bagwell, says that’s improper. On an April night time in 2022, he swallowed one capsule from a bottle of Percocet, a prescription painkiller that he and a good friend purchased earlier that day…

When the World Well being Group declared Covid-19 a worldwide pandemic in March 2020, practically every little thing in regards to the novel coronavirus was an open query: How was it spreading so shortly? How sick wouldn’t it make individuals? Would a single bout purchase you safety from future instances? Within the 4 years since,…

This text is a part of our Women and Leadership special report that coincides with international occasions in March celebrating the accomplishments of ladies. This dialog has been edited and condensed. Lynne Hughes, 59, a Detroit-area native, misplaced each of her mother and father by the point she was 12 years outdated. When she was…

One of many few therapies the Meals and Drug Administration has accepted for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has failed a big medical trial, and its producer mentioned Friday that it was contemplating whether or not to withdraw it from the market. The remedy, referred to as Relyvrio, was approved less than two years ago, regardless of…

Multitasking is simply the way in which many people dwell. How usually do you textual content whereas caught in visitors, lose monitor of a podcast whereas doing chores, or flutter between the information and your inbox? “We get caught on this multitasking entice even with out realizing that we’re doing it,” stated Nicole Byers, a…

A number of followers of the Kansas City Chiefs who attended a playoff recreation on a bitterly chilly January day in Missouri suffered frostbite that required amputations, in accordance with the hospital that handled them. Twelve folks — together with some soccer followers who had been at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 13 — needed to…

“This illness is incurable, it’s terminal, and it’ll finally kill you. Inform your kids, inform your loved ones, they should know the reality.” Dr. Phil Stieg’s verdict got here after my mind surgical procedure at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York Metropolis. He’d extracted a lime-size mass from my proper parietal lobe — glioblastoma, a…

Figuring out whether or not somebody has Alzheimer’s illness normally requires an prolonged diagnostic course of. A physician takes a affected person’s medical historical past, discusses signs, administers verbal and visible cognitive exams. The affected person could endure a PET scan, an M.R.I. or a spinal faucet — exams that detect the presence of two…

This column is a part of a collection for the Design special section of The New York Instances. Readers are invited to ship inquiries to [email protected]. After a column I wrote final summer season that touched on Ping-Pong tables, a reader requested if I might suggest firms supplying a pinball machine for his dwelling. In…