Carla K. Johnson

FILE – President Joe Biden speaks on the cancer moonshot initiative at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Sept. 12, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden announcing $150 million in research grants as part of his ‘moonshot’ push to fight cancer

August 13, 2024 at 4:12 p.m.

President Joe Biden visited New Orleans on Tuesday to promote his administration’s “moonshot” initiative aiming at dramatically reducing cancer deaths.

FILE - Prescription drugs are seen in a glass flask at a state laboratory in Taylorsville, Utah, on July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Too many pills? How to talk to your doctor about reviewing what’s needed

July 22, 2024 at 4:47 p.m.

If you’re taking multiple meds, it’s smart to be aware of potential problems.

FILE – A man smokes marijuana in lower Manhattan outside the first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. Daily and near-daily marijuana use is now more common than similar levels of high-frequency drinking in the U.S., according to an analysis of survey data over four decades, according to research published Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in the journal Addiction. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

There are now more daily marijuana users in the US than daily alcohol users

May 22, 2024 at 4:01 p.m.

For the first time, the number of Americans who use marijuana just about every day has surpassed the number who drink that often, a shift some 40 years in the...

FILE – A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. An influential U.S. task force now says women should get screened for breast cancer every other year starting at age 40. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced the updated guidance Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Mammograms should start at 40 to address rising breast cancer rates at younger ages, panel says

April 30, 2024 at 5:20 p.m.

Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force.

Joelle Dobrow muestra cómo se pone la máscara para la apnea del sueño en su hogar en Los Ángeles.

Los medios contra la apnea compiten por un espacio en la cama

May 15, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

Cada noche sin falta, Paul Blumstein se coloca una máscara para evitar despertarse constantemente por tener dificultades para respirar. Desde que se le diagnosticó un trastorno del sueño llamado apnea,...

Public health nurse Peggy Cooley of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, seen on the phone screen, uses Skype video to remotely monitor a patient taking antibiotics for tuberculosis at home in Lakewood, Wash.

Selfie medicine: Phone apps push people to take their pills

August 19, 2019 at 8:52 a.m.

Take two tablets and a selfie? Your doctor's orders may one day include a smartphone video to make sure you took your medicine. Smartphone apps that monitor pill-taking are now...

Pad thai is one of the delicious dishes on the menu at David Thompson's Long Chim, which has several outposts.

Hormone birth control linked to small risk of breast cancer

December 17, 2018 at 11:19 p.m.

Modern birth control pills that are lower in estrogen have fewer side effects than past oral contraceptives. But a large Danish study suggests that, like older pills, they still modestly...

Experts: Science behind ‘abortion reversal’ is flawed

May 23, 2019 at 4:07 a.m.

Lawmakers in Indiana and several other states are considering requirements for doctors to inform women seeking medical abortions about an unproven procedure called "abortion reversal."Doctors' groups oppose the bills because...

Marijuana plants are nearly ready for harvest in the "Flower Room" at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill.

Legal marijuana stirs hope in Illinois town

May 23, 2019 at 1:46 a.m.

A skunky aroma fills the room in which hundreds of lush marijuana plants grow, some nearly ready for harvest. Grower Ashley Thompson, a former high school agriculture teacher in this...

Lloyd and Shawn Turner walk last fall near their home in downstate Cisco. They're among about 230,000 Illinoisans who can keep their federal health insurance subsidy because of Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Illinois residents to keep Obamacare tax credits

May 21, 2019 at 10:36 p.m.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul allows thousands of Illinois residents to continue receiving help with their monthly insurance...

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