Q&A With Ann Partridge, MD, MPH

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By Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, as told to Alexandra Benisek  In the WebMD webinar “Diagnosed Under 40: Breast Cancer’s Unique Impacts on Younger Women,” Ann Partridge, MD, MPH, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, answered viewer questions about breast cancer risk in young people, treatment options, recurrence, and more.  This is … Read more

Rare Disease Families Advocate For Change

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“We know that a rare disease diagnosis is a race against the clock.”  – Patient advocate Kasey Woleben of McKinney, TX  Will Woleben was hitting all his developmental milestones as he entered the toddler years. He was walking, active, social, and curious, says mom Kasey Woleben of McKinney, TX. Then around age 2 – for … Read more

Weight Loss Drug Helps Half of Teens in Study Tackle Obesity

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May 19, 2023 — Nearly half of teens given the weight loss drug semaglutide (Wegovy) managed to lose enough weight to drop below the clinical threshold for obesity, a new study shows.  By comparison, only 12.1% of adolescents with obesity given a placebo in the 68-week trial dropped below the threshold.  Semaglutide belongs to a … Read more

Fat Growing Around Muscles Could Be a Silent Killer

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By Dennis Thompson  HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s well known that it’s unhealthy to have belly fat accumulating around your abdominal organs, but there’s a more insidious form of fat that could be even more hazardous to your health, a new study says. Fat that infiltrates your muscles appears to … Read more

FDA Approves First Pill to Treat Moderate-to-Severe Crohn’s

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By Cara Murez  HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, May 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Patients with Crohn’s disease have a new treatment option, following U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of a pill called Rinvoq (upadacitinib). Rinvoq is meant to treat adults with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease who have not had success with TNF (tumor … Read more

Should You Stretch Before or After Exercise, or Both?

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Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published October 18, 2019. Most would probably agree that stretching is an important part of a well-balanced fitness routine, but exactly when should you stretch? Before or after your workout? Both? Neither? To tease out the pros and cons, let’s take a look at what … Read more

The Impact of Weight Bias – As-Told-To With Joe Nadglowski, President/CEO, Obesity Action Coalition

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By Joe Nadglowski, president/CEO, Obesity Action Coalition, as told to Alexandra Benisek  In the WebMD webinar “The Impact of Weight Bias,” Joe Nadglowski, president and  CEO of the Obesity Action Coalition, answered viewer questions about how discrimination due to body weight can affect your life.  We know there are at least perceptions that weight bias … Read more

What Causes Water to Move Inside Your Body?

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This article was originally published here. One of the fascinating things about science is that while it is an excellent tool for discerning the nature of reality, it will simultaneously refuse to look at data with implications that challenge the existing scientific orthodoxy. So an unfortunate situation is created where science advances knowledge to a … Read more