Health

SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s newest drug on the migraine market, Zavzpret (zavegepant) — the first and only migraine treatment of its kind to be offered in nasal spray. The drug has shown in clinical trial data to provide rapid pain relief in as fast […]

Getty Images/Roberto Jimenez Mejias (NEW YORK) — A nationwide shortage of the asthma medication albuterol has been ongoing since last fall and experts fear it’s only expected to get worse. Albuterol can be taken in several forms but it’s the aerosolized solution used in a nebulizer in hospitals that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a major effort to improve breast cancer prevention, the FDA will now require mammogram facilities to inform women if they have dense breast tissue. About half of women have dense breast tissue, and many don’t know it. Doctors say having dense breast tissue does not pose an immediate threat […]

Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Moderna will keep its COVID vaccine on the market at no cost to consumers, even after the federal government stops paying for it, the company announced Wednesday. “Everyone in the United States will have access to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine regardless of their ability to pay,” the company […]

Mustafa Yilmaz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake and hundreds of powerful aftershocks struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria, survivors were still being pulled from the rubble. Rescue efforts continue even as the death toll has surpassed 41,000 as of Wednesday afternoon. Although most rescues happen in the first […]

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A medication that is already on the market may help people who binge drink, new research shows. The medication, naltrexone, is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat alcohol use disorder as well as opioid use disorder, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services […]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Health System and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles claims the hospital shared patient data with third parties. Filed by plaintiff John Doe, the proposed class action lawsuit claims his and other patients’ private information — including data related to their […]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — From “mom brain” to “mommy brain,” “momnesia,” “baby brain” and “pregnancy brain,” the terms used to describe the brain fog many moms say they experience during pregnancy and after are plentiful. One of the terms, “baby brain,” even made it into Prince Harry’s memoir Spare as he described how […]

Texas Children’s Hospital (HOUSTON) — A 4-year-old from eastern Louisiana is on the road to recovery at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston after receiving a bilateral lung transplant nearly three months ago. Now, her family and medical team are raising awareness of organ donation, especially since Feb. 14 is National Donor Day. Ava has a […]

Elva Etienne/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Teenage girls in the United States are experiencing record-high levels of feelings of sadness and acts of violence, according to new federal data. A report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nearly 3 in 5 — or 57% — of girls reported feeling persistently […]