Health

Every November, Bladder Health Awareness Month brings a national focus to bladder problems like incontinence, which becomes a major health issue as people age – especially among women.

Diabetes has exploded worldwide, from 108 million people with the disease in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. Just ahead of this year’s observance, a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health has found that a new type of treatment improves control of type 1 diabetes while freeing patients from the burden of constant monitoring.

Most pregnant women in the U.S. don’t get both the flu and whooping cough vaccines in spite of the fact that together, these two immunizations can protect them and their newborns from illnesses that can be especially serious for them.

For the second consecutive year, St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield has been named one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery™ by the independent rating organization Healthgrades.

Moms-to-be are generally advised to reduce or eliminate alcohol even before they start trying to conceive in order to protect their infants against birth defects, particularly heart abnormalities. However, new research shows that this advice should apply to both parents.

The Food and Drug Administration [FDA] has announced recalls of a number of a growing number of medications used to treat high blood pressure over the past several months, due to the discovery of possible cancer-causing impurities in them.

As National Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close on Oct. 31, new research published this month shines a spotlight on a form of the disease not often discussed: male breast cancer [MBC].

A recent study conducted at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., shows that this labor-intensive and costly step may not be necessary. After testing several different scenarios thought to pose a high risk of gluten transfer, researchers there found that no significant amount of transfer occurred during common food preparation tasks.

At a time when vaping has been directly linked to more than 1,000 serious lung illnesses and several deaths across the country, results of the most recent Monitoring the Future survey of high school students are also extremely troubling. Data from the national survey of students in the eighth, 10th and 12th grades shows that the number of teens who use e-cigarettes has doubled over just the last two years.

According to the most recently available Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System [BRFSS] data, the percentage of Americans who are obese has risen to 39.6% of U.S. adults over age 20. Along with this increase, new diagnoses of a dozen types of cancer linked to obesity are also shifting to younger Americans, according to a recent report.