NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Prior to James Van Der Beek’s death at age 48, the actor revealed the first warning sign of his colon cancer — and it’s one that did not seem alarming at the time. The “Dawson’s Creek” actor’s wife, Kimberly Van Der Beek, confirmed his passing in a…
Study finds link between obesity and vascular dementia Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss an increase of colon cancer in people under 50 despite overall lowering cancer deaths and a new study linking obesity to vascular dementia. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Obesity may be…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After years of backing the legalization of marijuana in the U.S., The New York Times changed course in an editorial published Tuesday. In the piece, entitled “It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem,” the editorial board stated that the U.S. “has recently…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A government-run health trust in the United Kingdom recently advertised a nursing role focused on supporting families involved in “close-relative marriage,” a practice that often involves first cousins and is linked to higher genetic risks for children due to shared inherited genes, according to health officials. The…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A common medication for diabetes may slow down age-related vision loss, according to new research. People with diabetes who were over the age of 55 and taking metformin — a prescription drug most commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes — were 37% less likely to develop…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Following last week’s launch of TrumpRx, a federal government-based prescription drug platform, doctors are speaking about its potential benefits for consumers — and also its limitations. The platform, which can be accessed at TrumpRx.gov, allows patients to access “large discounts on many of the most popular and…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Drinking two to three cups of coffee daily could reduce the risk of dementia, according to new observational research published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. American researchers analyzed four decades of data from more than 130,000 doctors and nurses, finding that moderately caffeinated coffee…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Colorblindness, a condition that mostly affects men, could be linked to a higher mortality risk in bladder cancer cases, a new study suggests. About 8% of men are estimated to have a form of color vision deficiency (CVD), compared to 0.5% of women, according to global statistics….
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! While Brooklyn Beckham’s recent social media post about his bitter family feud thrust the topic of parent-child estrangement into the headlines, surveys suggest that these types of rifts have been on the rise for years. One study from Cornell University found that more than a quarter of…
Watch CBS News Can a pill actually cure an ailment, even if that pill contains no cure? Doctors and medical researchers have discovered unexpected results from giving patients pills that aren’t medicine at all. Susan Spencer reports.