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Added sugar in foods not only adds extra calories, it also can have direct toxic effects, such as tooth decay and even a risk for heart disease. Minimizing the amount of added sugar in your diet is important. However, you may not even realize how much added sugar you consume. That's because some unsuspecting foods you may think are healthy ...Read more

The conversation wasn’t sounding good for Kensington residents on June 20.

The Philadelphia neighborhood is a critical center of the nation’s opioid crisis, and the city had decided to spend $7.5 million in opioid settlement money to improve the quality of life there. But on that day, a Pennsylvania oversight board was about to vote on ...Read more

Bariatric surgery is more than just surgery. It's a lifestyle change that includes a lifelong commitment to eating healthy with your dietitian's guidance and incorporating regular exercise into your routine.

After bariatric surgery, patients who regularly exercise for 60 minutes six days a week lose weight more quickly and dramatically improve ...Read more

GREELEY, Colo. — In early August, farmworkers gathered under a pavilion at a park here for a picnic to celebrate Farmworker Appreciation Day. One sign that this year was different from the others was the menu: Beef fajitas, tortillas, pico de gallo, chips, beans — but no chicken.

Farms in Colorado had culled millions of chickens in recent ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — There was no textbook for the volunteer training held last week on how to care for the severe skin wounds that are increasingly afflicting people in addiction.

Inside the tiny Savage Sisters storefront on Kensington Avenue, surgeon Jamaal Shaban had written his medical guidance by hand on a poster. Since doctors are learning in...Read more

Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet health care professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness and dying in an intensely stressful setting as a routine, ongoing part of their jobs.

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, research was documenting rampant...Read more

The current strain of avian flu, H5N1, is responsible for the culling of millions of domestic birds and has sickened more than a dozen farmworkers in 2024, most recently in Colorado.

The Conversation U.S. asked immunologist and microbiologist Jenna Guthmiller from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to explain the ...Read more

Benjamin Franklin once famously opined that nothing in the world could be certain but death and taxes. But when it comes to estate planning, how can you separate the certainty of the former from the burden of the latter? Permanent life insurance is something to consider.

Despite the fact that few individuals want to contemplate death, life ...Read more

Have you given much thought to the foods that you have access to in the area where you live? Do you have access to an array of healthy food choices? Or are you frustrated by the lack of affordable healthy food choices nearby? Are there supermarkets or farmers markets that offer an array of fresh fruits and vegetables, or are your only options ...Read more

It’s best to try to give your body some time to digest before laying down for the night, and eating too late makes you feel too full when you’re trying to comfortably snooze.

Watch out for these foods, which could keep you up way longer than you’d like.

1. Tomatoes

“For those with acid reflux problems (or women who temporarily have ...Read more

Maybe we should add toothbrushes to the bouquet of flowers we bring to friends and family members in the hospital — and make sure to pack one if we wind up there ourselves.

New Harvard-led research published online in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests seriously ill hospitalized patients are far less likely to develop hospital-acquired pneumonia...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A co-worker recently was diagnosed with oral cancer after a nagging cough led him to the doctor. It got me wondering about the incidence of head and neck cancer and what I should be screened for. I’m in my mid-40s and try to be mindful of getting an annual physical.

ANSWER: There are many types of head and neck cancers, ...Read more

Spring and summer in the U.S. now come with a new normal: days and even weeks where the acrid overhang of wildfire smoke forces us indoors. At its worst, not even shuttered windows can protect us from its effects — the stinging eyes, runny noses and burning lungs.

As the Earth’s climate warms, wildfires tear through a larger swath of land ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My husband noticed a dark mole on my back when we were swimming. Should I be worried about skin cancer? I do my best to apply sunscreen. What other preventive measures can I take?

ANSWER: If you have a concerning spot on your skin, you should have it evaluated by your primary care team or dermatologist.

There are three major...Read more

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have a rare point of agreement in their otherwise bitter and divisive contest: It’s up to the government to cut high U.S. drug prices.

Harris cast the tie-breaking Senate vote in 2022 for legislation that allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices for its more than 60 million ...Read more