While the government recommendation that we drink eight glasses of water a day has been around for 78 years, more recent studies say that most of us get a good deal of water from means other than guzzling bottles of H20. And good news, even coffee and tea count, some studies show. Photo: Flickr Editor B/Bart Keep the Water Flowing for Health (and Coffee Counts) Seventy-eight years ago, the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board said that as a rule you should drink 8 glasses of water a day.... News 19 May 2023 | 12:43
New FDA guidelines have been released for the Covid vaccines. Photo: Flickr. ( Sebastian Rothwyn / Sgt. Sebastian Rothwyn) New FDA Guidelines: As COVID Continues to Evolve, So Should You Two weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration issued new rules for COVID vaccines, eliminating the earliest versions and... News 28 Apr 2023 | 04:49
A handful of raw mixed nuts can go a long way to cut heart disease. Photo: Wikimedia commons Nuts: Rising Stars in the Battle Against Heart Disease “Nuts to you!” That’s the surprisingly cheery message from a group of Scandinavian researchers at six universities in Finland,... News 21 Apr 2023 | 07:42
Sandra Lindsay, a Jamaican-born nurse at Northwell Health/Queens was the first person in the US to be given a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 14, 2020. Photo: Northwell Health Experts are still trying to figure out “Long Covid” even as worst of Epidemic Passes In the beginning, on February 10, 2020 to be exact, then President Donald Trump boldly predicted that COVID-19 would be “miraculously... News 26 Mar 2023 | 09:55
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins may have sung that a “spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,” but soon in this town a new bill introduced by Keith Powers may make chain stores carry warning labels that too much sugar is very bad for your health. Photo: Walt Disney Records Councilman Powers Takes on Sugar with Sweet Truth Act Pop Quiz: What do you and some fast-moving bacteria have in common? Surprise answer: A taste for sweets. Sugar isn’t just... News 10 Feb 2023 | 01:40
Cold and Flu Season is here, and there’s a few things to do to make it less miserable. Photo: Master1035 Freepik How to Beat the Common Cold Achoo! Got a cold? You’re not alone. Your eyes may be the window to your soul but your nose is a door to the rest of your... News 06 Jan 2023 | 02:39
Telemedicine has become everyday normal for patients since COVID. Happy New (Medical) Year Track the history of medicine from leeches to MRNA vaccines, and you will find yourself on a steadily inventive path that... News 29 Dec 2022 | 10:33
Radha Metro-Midkiff, executive director of the Manhattan headquarters of Integral Yoga. Photo courtesy of Integral Yoga Institute Caring for the Spirit as Well as the Body In the words of Sri Swami Satchidananda, a spiritual teacher from India and founder of Integral Yoga, the perfect or divine... News 23 Dec 2022 | 10:30
Alan Alda as Hawkeye and Jamie Farr as Klinger in “M.A.S.H.” Photo: CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Pleasing Prescriptions Are you a serious M*A*S*H fan? If so, you’re likely to remember either the live or repeatedly re-run Season 6 Episode 25... News 16 Dec 2022 | 03:02
Image by prostooleh on Freepik Faithful Friends When is Fido more than a friend? According to the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), when he’s working to “perform... News 02 Dec 2022 | 03:16
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine administered at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, December 14, 2020. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The COVID Scoreboard What a difference three years make. On January 21, 2019, when the first U.S. case of COVID 19 was confirmed, we knew literally... News 18 Nov 2022 | 10:37
A post-Paxlovid positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes COVID Times Two Here’s the story: You catch COVID, or, more accurately, COVID catches you. Luckily, it’s happening now rather than two years... News 26 Aug 2022 | 08:56
Men at the protest at Foley Square on May 3. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Men and Abortion When it comes to choice, where are the men? If you believe what you’re likely to read, they’re over there on the other side,... News 20 May 2022 | 10:09
A prescription for yogurt. Meet Your Microbiome Remember the last time your doctor prescribed an antibiotic? Chances are a prescription for yogurt came right along with... News 22 Apr 2022 | 02:08
Dr. Gunda Georg of the Department of Medical Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Photo via University of Minnesota website The Male Pill In the 62 years since The Pill appeared, it has been a resounding success at giving women a way to control fertility. By... News 25 Mar 2022 | 02:25
