U.S. consumers who have had their fill of finding protein added to everything from cereal to ice cream are about to meet the next big food fad: fiber. Americans have been boosting their protein intake for years; even Pop-Tarts and Starbucks are selling protein-enhanced products. But the ...
NEW YORK — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried the actions of the panel, whose current members were ...
When inpatient resources are at capacity – whether it’s because of a lack of physical beds or a patient volume exceeds the number of staff available to care for patients in those beds – patients may find themselves waiting in the Emergency Department (ED) long after they’ve been ...
Novo Nordisk is chopping prices again for Wegovy, but doctors say the expense will remain challenging for patients without insurance. The drugmaker said Monday that it has started selling higher doses of the injectable obesity treatment for $349 a month to patients paying the full bill. ...
BROOKLINE, Mass. — For the past several years, 75-year-old Miguel Laboy has smoked a joint with his coffee every morning. He tells himself he won’t start tomorrow the same way, but he usually does. “You know what bothers me? To have cannabis on my mind the first thing in the ...
For most of her career as a physician, Shelly Kortkamp didn’t envision ever shifting into the C-suite. But as she was working as a hospitalist at the Hospital Sisters Health System in Illinois, Kortkamp, said the CEO approached her to see if she would serve as the Chief Medical Officer on an ...