Dr. Michael Bazel

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Intermittent fasting (IF) has gained immense popularity in recent years as a weight-loss strategy, but it’s more than just the latest health trend. Rooted in ancient practices and supported by some scientific studies, intermittent fasting involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting. The method has become a go-to for many looking to shed pounds, improve metabolic health, or simplify their diets.

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NPR Health

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

A committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is critical in setting national vaccine policy. It's also vulnerable to political interference.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Healthy eating sounds deceptively simplejust eat more fruits and vegetables and avoid junk food, right? However, healthy eating really isn't easy.

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NPR Health

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

'/> The website restofworld got entries from 45 countries for a photo contest focusing on technology. Here are their top picks -- from facial scans for migrants to kids in a Mongolian tent transfixed by of a TV.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

If your young child asks "what's the meaning of life?" You might laugh it off (how cute!) or freeze in panic (where do I even begin?).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. Dr. Robert Thompson observed that the effect of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) was to consume precious time at an office visit by prompting patients to request expensive new “me too” therapies that often were not on their drug formularies.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Scientists discovered years ago that the hypothalamuswhich helps to manage body temperature, hunger, sex drive, sleep and moreincludes neurons that express the protein opsin 3 (OPN3). Far less clear, however, was what this light-sensing protein does so deep inside the brain.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Exposure to air pollution is associated with around 7 million premature deaths per year across the world. When we think of urban air pollution, diesel exhaust emissions are often portrayed as a key culpritrightly so, given previous research findings. However, our latest research shows that dust from brake pads could be more harmful to our lungs.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In the first 18 months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, most states with abortion bans saw a rise in infant deaths, new research reveals.

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