Category: Health & Wellness

A Wake-Up Call for Younger Generations Strokes in young adults are steadily on the rise — and have nearly doubled in the last three decades, according to a new study. For years, stroke has been thought of as a disease of old age, something to…

The Snack That Could Cost You Your Health Picture a small bag of corn chips. A single-serve cup of mini cookies. One modest box of candy. That’s roughly 100 grams — and according to one of the largest nutritional analyses ever conducted, even that modest…

When Cancer Learns to Dodge Treatment One of oncology’s most frustrating realities is that many cancer therapies that work brilliantly at first eventually stop working. As Dr. Weei-Chin Lin, a professor of hematology and oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, explains it, cancer cells can…

The Seasonal Warning Signs Are Already Here As temperatures cool and children settle back into school, health experts say respiratory illnesses are beginning to increase across the Chicago area — and healthcare providers throughout Chicagoland are preparing for what they expect could be a busy…

A Cancer That Hides — Until It’s Too Late Theresia Oreskovic has heard the words “you have cancer” more than once. At 78, the Avon Lake, Ohio, jeweler first received a breast cancer diagnosis in her late 50s. Then, nearly two decades later, cancer came…

What’s Hiding in Your Packaged Food Check the ingredient label on a loaf of bread, a jar of pasta sauce, or a bag of deli meat, and you’ll almost certainly find one of them. Food preservatives are so embedded in the modern diet that avoiding…

A Home Transformed by Technology There are sensors in every room of Jyoti and Bharat Patel’s home. Their movements and habits are monitored constantly. But this doesn’t worry them — in fact, it gives them peace of mind. For this west London couple in their…

More Than Just Hours in Bed Most people think of sleep as a simple on-off switch — you’re either getting enough or you’re not. But a sweeping new study published in the journal PLOS Medicine is rewriting that assumption in a major way. While health…

A simple blood test may be able to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease up to six years before memory loss and other symptoms appear. Scientists believe the biological changes associated with Alzheimer’s begin long before patients notice any problems, potentially even decades earlier, meaning early detection through routine testing could give doctors a significant head start in treatment.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has launched an Ebola vaccination campaign targeting around 50,000 frontline health workers as the outbreak’s death toll continues to climb. The vaccine being administered targets a different Ebola strain than the current outbreak. Additionally, 20,000 people have been enrolled in a one-year clinical trial to further study the response to the disease.