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The two major categories of migraine are migraine with aura and migraine without aura, according to Sandhya Kumar, MD, a neurologist and headache specialist at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Typically, migraine attacks progress through four stages, or phases, which distinguishes them from severe tension or other nonmigraine headaches: prodrome, aura, headache, and postdrome. In other cases, the headache phase doesn’t occur. According to Dr. Kumar, “In an ocular migraine, a person might not have much of a headache or no headache all, but then they have all these visual auras where they see things like flashing lights or visual phenomena....

“The fact that nearly half of all patients with abnormal findings in our study experienced delays in following up is alarming,” said the study’s presenting author, Alwiya Ahmed, MD, MPH, internal medicine resident at the University of Washington School of Medicine and physician-scientist at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in a release. Although skin cancer, breast cancer (in women), and prostate cancer (in men) are more common than lung cancer, lung cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer....

As a great source of whole grains, oats contain a heart-protective starch called beta-glucan that can help lower high cholesterol and potentially help reduce the risk of certain cancers. (1) Their fiber (and rich texture) make them particularly filling for breakfast, helping you avoid the pre-lunch call to snack. What’s more, they’re GI-friendly because their fiber content also can help improve digestion and promote regularity. What Are Oats, and What Should You Know About Their History?...

Top Takeaways About Osteoarthritis People With OA Have a Higher Risk of a Variety of Comorbidities What’s New A study published in April 2022 in the Annals of Family Medicine, presented by lead researcher Anne Kamps, a doctoral candidate at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands, looked at whether patients with OA were more apt to suffer from comorbidities when one or more diseases coexisted with the primary disease. People with knee OA showed positive associations with obesity, fibromyalgia, polymyalgia, drug abuse, and rheumatoid arthritis, among others conditions....

“This is potentially very exciting news,” says William Schaffner, MD, professor of medicine, in the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who was not involved in the vaccine’s development. “RSV is the leading cause of hospitalization in young infants — if we could reduce that by 70 percent, that would an enormous boon,” he says. The rise in RSV, flu, and COVID-19 cases in recent weeks have many experts worried that the United States could soon be dealing with a “tripledemic” of the respiratory viruses....

The stats on the sport speak for themselves: The number of pickleball players across the United States has grown more than 11 percent annually in each of the past five years, according to USA Pickleball, the U.S. national governing body for the sport of competitive pickleball. Approximately 4.8 million Americans play pickleball, with the sport attracting people of all ages, from kids to older adults, per the professional organization. Pickleball is now considered America’s fastest growing sport, according to a 2022 report from the Sports and Fitness Industry Association....

First of all, take heart - you’re unlikely to need a hysterectomy. And good for you for having your Pap smear! Pap smear testing for cancer of the cervix has saved thousands of women’s lives and is one of the great success stories in cancer screening. Deaths from cervical cancer have decreased by 50 to 80 percent in countries where routine Pap tests are available to women. Screening healthy women for cervical cancer does have a small downside, though:Many women will be found to have minor abnormalities on their Pap smears....

You probably have many questions about your diagnosis, including how you caught the virus and what steps you should take next. Here are answers to some common questions about hepatitis C that can help you get proper treatment. 1. How did I get hepatitis C? The virus is spread through contact with an infected person’s blood. People who are part of the baby boomer generation may have been exposed from receiving a blood transfusion before 1992, when widespread screening virtually eliminated the virus from the U....

For most people who have ITP, treatment includes the use of drugs that suppress your immune system’s attack on your platelets — at least initially, until your platelet levels are high enough. But receiving drug treatments is just one part of what it means to actively manage this condition. Depending on the level of severity, having ITP means you may benefit from rethinking how you care for yourself in many different ways, from how you exercise and cook to how you prioritize sleep, how you prepare for and treat minor injuries to what over-the-counter medications you take....

That’s when she came across the ketogenic diet, a popular high-fat, low-carb eating plan sometimes referred to as the “keto diet.” Lofton, 40, says that while she hasn’t lost much weight, her blood sugar is in the mid-100s milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) — the healthiest level she’s reached in years. She had previously recorded her highest blood sugar levels between 600 and 800 after being rushed to the emergency room in 2016....

This helps explain why lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute. (1) Some people mistake early signs of lung cancer as nuisances rather than symptoms of disease. Smokers, for instance, may regard a persistent cough as simply a normal long-term consequence of their habit. Diagnosing and treating lung cancer in its earliest stages may improve your chances of survival, whatever your risk factors, per the American Cancer Society....

This frustration led Thomas, along with cofounder Jasmine Souers, to create For the Breast of Us (FTBOU) in 2019. The organization fills a need that has long been neglected in the breast cancer community: a place for all women of color — Black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and more — who’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer “to find support, connect with other women of color diagnosed with breast cancer, and learn how to advocate for themselves to help eliminate the health disparities that exist for them,” Thomas says....

The man, who went for medical care in England in early 2018, has a female partner in the United Kingdom, but also had sex with a woman in Southeast Asia a month before developing symptoms. “This is a small red flag on the horizon,” says H. Hunter Handsfield, MD, professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD in Seattle, and a consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Sexual Health Association....

Difficulties with the vertical posture come in many colors, shades, and tones for those of us on different places on the MS rainbow. When I was first diagnosed, and trying to keep my jet-set, full-time employment, my boss in Germany told me of a dear friend of his with MS. Your man had apparently had MS for years and the only way you might notice anything is that he couldn’t stand for very long at a cocktail party....

Stelara, in a family of medicines known as monoclonal antibodies, works by reducing certain substances in the body that can cause inflammation. The drug has been on the market since 2009 and was previously approved for the treatment of plaque psoriasis, an itchy skin condition; Crohn’s disease, a chronic digestive disorder; and a variety of rheumatological disorders. The new approved use for Stelara was based on results of a pivotal clinical trial published September 26, 2019, in the New England Journal of Medicine that found Stelara could induce and maintain remission in adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC)....

Additionally, nearly half of study participants treated with psilocybin stopped drinking entirely eight months after receiving their first dose of psilocybin, compared with nearly a quarter of those in the placebo group, per a press release from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. “Today’s study that you’re hearing about is a major breakthrough in the understanding and treatment of alcohol use disorder,” said Charles Marmar, MD, the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Psychiatry and the chair of the department of psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, at a virtual press conference about the findings held on August 24....

But there is a lot to be said for the forces of the disease itself, which can press up against the living part and the quality of that living. Not every day of any life is going to be sunshine and Santa Claus. There are going to be good days and not-so-good days in everyone’s every days. When lassoed into one of those lesser days, I find it important to remember that it’s okay to not be okay....

The study, published in the November 2021 issue of the American Journal of Nursing, used responses from a national survey on well-being, which included questions on burnout and depression. The authors found that 5.5 percent of nurses experienced suicidal ideation (thoughts of killing oneself), approximately 1 percent higher than other workers. After controlling for factors such as age, gender, work hours, relationship status, and burnout, it was estimated that nurses had significantly higher odds — 38 percent — of having suicidal thoughts than other workers....

In the advisory, Dr. Murthy called the challenges that American youths are facing today “unprecedented and uniquely hard to navigate.” The “unfathomable” number of deaths due to COVID-19, high levels of fear, economic instability, and forced physical distancing from loved ones have all played key roles in worsened mental health among youths, Murthy added. But the youth mental health crisis was looming even before the pandemic started, Murthy wrote. RELATED: Pediatricians Declare Kids’ Mental Health a National Emergency...

About 1 in 15,700 infants are born with Dravet syndrome, and up to 80 percent of them have a mutation in their SCN1A gene. (1) For the most part, the disorder is not inherited — about 85 percent of people with Dravet syndrome have a de novo (new) mutation not passed to them from their parents. (2) It’s a rare and severe form of epilepsy, and the hallmark symptoms of Dravet syndrome involve seizures — a surge of electrical activity in the brain that results in physical and mental manifestations....