Health

Hepatitis C is a viral agent that affects somewhere between 2.5 million to 4.7 million people within the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s no small number, needless to say. According to the…

Psilocybin mushrooms are a fairly common variety of fungi that span across a number of genera, and encapsulates all species of hallucinogenic mushrooms there are. You may be far more familiar with the term “magic mushrooms'', as they’re…

Mental health is a bit of a divisive subject in this country. Sometimes it’s highly advocated for, and other times it’s wholly ignored for the sake of putting tax dollars elsewhere. Well unfortunately, the latter had happened in the state…

If you’ve grown up as an only child, having siblings was no doubt a thought you’ve pondered on and off again. Having someone to play with growing up would have been nice, but you’d also have to deal with petty arguments. Having more…

Novo Nordisk, a leading healthcare company, has joined competitor Eli Lilly in chopping the price of insulin for medicare patients by 75%, with Lilly starting at a 70% reduction and a monthly out-of-pocket cap for insulin. This is a…

Medicare is a Federal health insurance program available for US residents who are aged 65 or to younger people who are disabled or have certain health conditions that make them eligible for Medicare. These conditions include End-stage Renal…

By Jessica Bryan “Bring something special with you next week,” she said. “We are going to do an exercise in ‘Sacred Psychometry.’” The teacher of our mediumship class was referring to the metaphysical practice of holding an inanimate…

I got a call three weeks ago telling me that my father was in the hospital with pneumonia. He is 92 years old, so a bout of pneumonia is no small matter. I changed my vacation plans, got on a plane and flew to Southern California. Dad…

Legend has it Native Americans used it to care for the sick or elderly. In the early 1900s visitors began flocking to Ashland to bathe in it. And almost exactly 100 years later, many locals still describe it as a miracle drink. But does…

Thousands of people die every year from treatable conditions because they are black and the cost to the health care system of allowing this is more than $1 trillion, Dayna Bowen Matthews of the University of Virginia Law School and author…