There is a new FDA-approved eye drop on the market called Vizz. This once-daily, prescription eye drop is said to help combat presbyopia, otherwise known as age-related blurry vision. Drugmaker LENZ Therapeutics touts that with just one drop in each eye, a person’s vision will improve for up to 10 hours, so they won’t have…
A New Jersey man is the first person believed to have died from a so-called meat allergy triggered by a tick bite, researchers say. The man died in September 2024, but researchers just recently linked the death to the allergy, known as alpha-gal syndrome, or AGS. According to experts, the bite of a Lone Star tick…
New Delhi – Authorities in India’s capital have urged elementary schools to hold classes online, banned construction and urged people to work from home as the annual plague of air pollution hit the “severe” category in a health warning system for the first time this season. For the first time, the toxic air has drawn…
Extended interview: FDA chief calls warnings on menopause treatments an “American tragedy” – CBS News Watch CBS News FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell in an exclusive interview why the agency decided to drop decades-old “black box” warnings on many hormone therapy drugs used for menopause and perimenopause symptoms. Source link
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will remove the “black box” warning labels on many hormone therapy drugs used for menopause and perimenopause symptoms — a major turnaround that’s likely to encourage more women to seek treatment. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said in an exclusive CBS News interview that the change ends a decades-long…
FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss the agency’s announcement Thursday that boxed warnings will be removed from many estrogen products used for hormone therapy, a treatment that helps alleviate the symptoms of menopause. Source link
In this web exclusive, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about backing research into Alzheimer’s, a disease which affected his own father. Source link
“I just know that my brain’s not right,” said Carrie Richardson, 44. “And so, I hate it. I just want it to be normal.” At 41, Carrie developed early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The condition is caused by rare genetic mutations that essentially guarantee a person will develop the disease. Her mother, Mary Salter, of Montgomery, Alabama,…
When the “Greatest Generation” returned home from World War II, many veterans had suffered psychic wounds that were not diagnosed or understood at the time to be PTSD. For his new book, “The Wounded Generation,” historian David Nasaw researched the experiences of WWII veterans – from suffering survivor’s guilt, to receiving electro-shock therapy treatments –…
MIT Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia” (MIT Press), photographer Joe Wallace has chronicled the stories of families who have lived with Alzheimer’s. Among them: Carrie Richardson, now 44, whose family carries the PSEN1 gene, making…
