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Beta blockers appear to be useless when prescribed to heart attack survivors who aren’t suffering from heart failure, a new clinical trial indicates. The study calls into question the routine of prescribing beta blockers to all patients following a heart attack, which has been standard care for decades, researchers said. About 50% of heart attack…  read on >  read on >

Health care cost and access are not the only barriers women face in getting lifesaving mammograms, a new government report finds. Food insecurity, lack of transportation, less hours at work and feelings of isolation also can keep women from getting screened for breast cancer, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered.…  read on >  read on >

For people struggling with both diabetes and a common type of heart failure, the weight-loss drug Wegovy may do more for their health than help them shed pounds, new research suggests. In the study, published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers reported that the drug helped people with type 2 diabetes who…  read on >  read on >

Pregnancy transforms women’s bodies in many obvious ways, but new research suggests it may also accelerate aging. Women who had been pregnant appeared to be biologically older than women who had never carried a child, the genetic analysis revealed. Further, more pregnancies meant more aging. “Our findings suggest that pregnancy speeds up biological aging, and…  read on >  read on >

Spring is in the air, and along with it loads of tree, grass and weed pollen. Sneezing, watery and itchy eyes, runny nose and all the other miseries of seasonal allergies can prevent a person from fully enjoying the season of rebirth. Worse, seasonal allergies also can trigger or worsen asthma, or lead to health…  read on >  read on >

Today is your last chance until 2044 to see a total eclipse of the sun in the continental United States. But be sure to protect your eyes if you plan to watch the moon block the sun’s rays, briefly plunging Earth into temporary darkness.  “The eclipse will last a few minutes,” said Dr. David Hinkle,…  read on >  read on >

New research questions the effectiveness of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated drug approval program after finding that many cancer drugs remain unproven five years later. The study, published Sunday in the Journal of the American Medical Association and presented simultaneously at the American Association of Cancer Research’s annual meeting in San Diego, found…  read on >  read on >