Medicine

This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here.It’s time to bust some myths about essential oils. These are oils derived from plants that have strong smells and are often marketed as having medical uses. Should they really…

This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here.If you’ve ever been constipated, you know it’s a miserable feeling: all that heaviness and bloat, without any relief in sight. When constipation starts to set in, you may find…

This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here.Warts, especially on the hands, often spring up out of nowhere. You have this strange, crusty lump on your skin—or, more often, your child’s—and now what? They don’t come off…

This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here.Hot packs and cold packs are some of the most useful and convenient tools we have for dealing with pain in specific body parts. But when should you use each…

This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here.Children under 4 years old shouldn’t use over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, the FDA has warned. So what do you do instead? Try home remedies, which “may work better than…

This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here.We’ve covered some of the best and worst home remedies in depth, but now it’s time for a lightning round: Should you feed a cold and starve a fever? Drink…

Photo: Chompoo Suriyo (Shutterstock)The FDA announced that a new regulation will require mammogram facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts. Thirty-eight states (and D.C.) already have some sort of notification requirement, but this will make the messaging consistent nationwide and will bring these notices to states where they are not currently required.…

Last month, 20 Republican attorneys general told Walgreens it could face legal action if it sold abortion pills in some states. Walgreens told Politico it will not sell the pills in those states, which includes some where abortion is legal. California said it will not renew a $54 million contract with the pharmacy as a…

Photo: Microgen (Shutterstock)If you think of CPR as a combination of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions, your first aid knowledge is outdated. In most situations, compression-only CPR is the right move. According to the American Heart Association, “Hands-Only CPR performed by a bystander has been shown to be as effective as CPR with breaths in…

Experts are debating the most effective uses of artificial intelligence as the technology grows. One of the most beneficial use cases so far has been the tech's ability to identify cancer, the NYT reported.  Studies in Hungary and other parts of Europe have found it equally as capable as humans. Loading Something is loading. Thanks…