medicine
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Diabetes Drug Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia, Study Finds
New research this week is the latest to suggest that some drugs meant to treat type 2 diabetes might also help prevent dementia in high-risk groups. The study found that older people who used a relatively older class of antidiabetic medication were less likely to develop dementia than those who used other common antidiabetic drugs.…
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More U.S. States Than Ever Have High Obesity Rates, CDC Data Shows
More and more Americans across the country are living with obesity, new data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The number of states and territories with high obesity rates has more than doubled since 2018. There are also wide disparities in obesity prevalence among different groups of Americans.
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America’s Sexually Transmitted Disease Problem Is ‘Out of Control’
Sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. are at a crisis point. On Monday, prominent public health experts and government officials raised an alarm over the ongoing annual rise in STDs. Preliminary data recently released by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention shows that cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia all went up last year.
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U.S. Hits 1 Million Organ Transplants Since First in 1954
Just about a million organ transplants have now been performed in the United States. The milestone was reached Friday, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nonprofit facilitator of these life-saving operations in the U.S. It’s been nearly 70 years since the first donated whole organ was successfully transplanted into a human.