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Euronews'Ozempic breasts' to 'Ozempic face': What you need to know about weight loss drug side effects
While many people suffering from obesity have been using Ozempic to help with weight loss, health professionals are warning of potential side effects.
- Good Housekeeping
The COVID "FLiRT" Symptoms You Need to Know About
There are several COVID variants right now which have the same "set of mutations," and are being referred to as FLiRT. Here are symptoms to watch out for.
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram
For most, pancreatic cancer is a deadly diagnosis. How one Fort Worth man beat the odds
A retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force beat the odds when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year.
- CNN
Woman claims Alzheimer’s symptoms were reversed after five years
In “The Last Alzheimer’s Patient,” CNN chief medical correspondent follows Alzheimer’s patient Cici Zerbe who says her symptoms have been reversed after participating in Dr. Dean Ornish’s clinical trial on the effects of intensive lifestyle changes on the progression of mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer’s Disease. That peer-reviewed study will be published in the journal “Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy” in June 2024. Dr. Ornish’s program includes a plant-based diet, regular exercise, group support, yoga or meditation.Watch the full documentary on CNN’s “The Whole Story” premiering on May 19th at 8p et/pt and streaming on MAX on June 18th.
- INSIDER
A professor of exercise and aging shares how she works out and eats to stay healthy as long as possible
Karyn Esser, in her 60s, replaced running with brisk walking and took up strength training — even though she doesn't like it.
- People
Teen Died of Cancer Just 1 Month After School Honored Him with Special Graduation Ceremony
"Now his suffering is over and his kind, sweet soul is all around us,” the family of Brian Ortiz, 17, said in a GoFundMe
- HuffPost UK
The Scientific Reason Why Newborn Babies Smell So Good
There's a reason why we can't get enough!
- BBC
Mum still feels guilt for son's infected blood death
Martin White died at the age of 33 after being given blood products contaminated with HIV.
- USA TODAY
Daycare owner, employees arrested in New Hampshire for secretly feeding children melatonin
A Manchester daycare owner and her employees turned themselves in after an investigators said they were adding melatonin to children's food.
- Reuters
UK's infected blood scandal could and should have been avoided, inquiry finds
LONDON (Reuters) -An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3,000 deaths and thousands more contracting hepatitis or HIV, a public inquiry found on Monday. Inquiry chair Brian Langstaff said more than 30,000 people received infected blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s from Britain's state-funded National Health Service, destroying lives, dreams and families. Langstaff, a former High Court judge, received a standing ovation by campaigners as he delivered his findings.
- The Daily Beast
Truth About the Wild Drug-Taking and Illegal Booze on Ukraine’s Front Lines
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyKHARKIV, Ukraine—Fighting on the front lines has taken a disastrous turn for the worse after Russia broke through Kharkiv’s line of defense on May 10. Throughout Eastern Ukraine, the brutal repercussions of the six-month-long pause in new U.S. aid led to massive losses on the battlefield. Ukrainian soldiers risking their lives for their country are suffering from physical and psychological trauma. With few ways to decompress from the all
- HuffPost Life
The Most Common COVID Symptoms Doctors Are Seeing This Spring
The FLiRT variants are currently the dominant COVID-19 strains in the United States.
- HuffPost Life
The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Can Do With The Food At A Cookout
Danger is lurking in some unexpected places — even your ice.
- Associated Press
Britain slammed in inquiry for infecting thousands with tainted blood and covering up the scandal
British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have died and many others were left with lifelong illnesses after receiving blood or blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis in the 1970s to the early 1990s. The scandal is widely seen as the deadliest disaster in the history of Britain’s state-run National Health Service since its inception in 1948.
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Soap stars raise money for breast cancer charity wearing decorated bras
EastEnders actors Harriet Thorpe and Natalie Cassidy were among the stars who took part in the walking event.
- USA TODAY
At Wisconsin GOP convention, Ron Johnson urges party faithful to unify on abortion
Speaking at the Wisconsin Republican Party convention, Ron Johnson warned that Democrats will make the 2024election a referendum on abortion.
- Charlotte Observer
Abortion opponents rally in Raleigh: ‘I would like to see it totally abolished.’
A year after North Carolina tightened abortion restrictions, abortion opponents rally to call for a complete ban.
- WXYZ-Detroit Videos
Multiple people injured after propane tank explosion in Downtown Rochester
Multiple people were injured after an propane tank exploded in Downtown Rochester, fire department officials confirmed to 7 News Detroit. We're told the explosion happened around 8:45 and video shows multiple fire trucks and ambulances at the scene.
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‘I’m glad my brother isn’t alive to see what happened – he loved Treloar’s’
Some 75 of the boys with haemophilia treated at Treloar’s College are now dead.
- PA Media: UK News
Children used as ‘objects for research’, Infected Blood Inquiry report finds
Clinicians at the Treloar College in the 1970s to 1980s prioritised research over the interests of the children, the report said.