Estimated number of Americans with diabetes, 27% of whom don't know they have the disease. An estimated additional 79 million have prediabetes. Last year, the CDC projected that as many as 1 in 3 U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 if current trends continue. [via CDC]
College students are more stressed out than ever before — at least according to the latest findings of a large, national survey that has been conducted annually for the last 25 years. The survey includes more than 200,000 students attending nearly 300 colleges and asks them to rate how their own mental health stacks up [...]
Worsening vision and dulled reflexes might explain why some older folks have trouble behind the wheel. But researchers from the University of Rochester may have uncovered another possibility: the aging brain may be better at perceiving irrelevant background movement instead of the focusing on the motion of smaller objects — like pedestrians, bicyclists and other [...]
Have other people’s blithe Facebook updates ever made you feel like a total loser? Or have you ever felt that your best friend’s life is perfectly easy and joyful, while yours is nothing but struggle and anxiety? You’re not alone.
Say there’s a doctor who used 16 eggs to create 14 embryos and then transferred a dozen of them to a woman’s womb, where they eventually yielded eight babies. Should he be allowed to continue seeing patients?
Spend time in a busy emergency room and you’ll hear a recurrent theme among the harried staff: patients in the U.S. want their health care like they want their food — served up speedily and made “your way.” It’s a phenomenon known as McDonald’s medicine, and it’s likely exacerbating overcrowding in the country’s ERs and [...]
Central heating feels good on blustery winter nights, but a new study by researchers at University College London suggests that keeping your house too balmy may be making you fat.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating a possible link between saline and silicone breast implants and a very rare type of cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). For now, the FDA is advising doctors and patients to monitor breast implants and report any cases of ALCL.
Amount recovered by federal agents from health care fraud judgments last year — thanks in part to the work of whistleblowers — the largest ever recovery of taxpayer money in the history of Justice Department rulings. [via USA Today]
Film festivals, once an elite institution dominated by cineastes, insiders and glamorous cities like Cannes and Venice, have become a growth industry.
