Putting a Hole in Our World
May 10, 2024 – When we’re young, we take our macula for granted. At the center of our retina – the deepest layer of the eye that’s chock-full of photoreceptors and that confers color to our world – the macula is like a high-resolution camera. As light hits our eyes, the retina’s macula recasts our world in a bloom of color with astoundingly More...
Federal Experts Talk Bird Flu ‘What Ifs’ in WebMD Live Event
May 16, 2024 – Multiple U.S. agencies are working to contain the recent bird flu outbreak among cattle to prevent further spread to humans (beyond one case reported in early April) and use what we learned More...
A Savvy Black Entrepreneur Guides You to Eczema-Friendly Clothes, Creams, Cosmetics, and More
Orleatha Smith is the consummate go-getter. This Los Angeles-based dynamo holds a biology teaching credential and a master’s degree in education, and she is a published author More...
Behind the Spike in Colorectal Cancer Among Young Americans
May 15, 2024 – Despite encouraging drops in overall colorectal cancer rates in the past 2 decades, one group stands out as an exception: Americans younger than 45. Colorectal cancer cases increased a whopping More...
Is Your Doctor ‘Blue Zones’ Certified?
Blue Zones, an organization that studies regions around the world where people live longer, happier lives, has partnered with The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) to help train and certify health More...
Alzheimer’s Risk and the APOE4 Gene
Studies have long shown that if you carry two copies of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) 4 gene, your chances of developingAlzheimer’s disease are much higher. Now, researchers say in a new study that gene pair More...
Experts Watching Bird Flu Carefully in Case It Takes Off
May 14, 2024 – So far, the unexpected jump of bird flu to cattle has not emerged as a new human flu pandemic. Yes, a dairy worker got pink eye this year after being infected, but a larger threat to all of More...
3 Women With Eczema Describe the Ways They Combat Nighttime Flare-Ups
If you have eczema, you know what it’s like – that frustrating struggle to catch some ZZZ’s. The problem is at once physical and emotional. “When my eczema is flared, nighttime often fills me with anxiety,” More...
The Challenges of Parenting a Child With Eczema
A loving mother wants, above all else, good health for her child. Imagine, then, the emotional impact of discovering that your baby has eczema, of wishing more than anything to take away the itching and irritation. More...
How to Minimize Eczema Flare-ups at the Gym and on the Job
Morning exercise offers many benefits, but for people with eczema, hitting the gym and then going to work presents a complex set of challenges. Getting hot and sweaty can lead More...
