The ‘Deathracers’ key to staying young? Skateboarding into your 60s and beyond
Chad Rivera gingerly makes his way to the edge of what looks like an emptied out swimming pool, a lime-green skateboard in one hand, a white cane in the other. ...
Tag: Health & Wellness
Health clinics that service immigrants are making house calls on patients too afraid to leave home
Across Los Angeles, the Inland Empire and the Coachella Valley, one community health center is extending its services to immigrant patients in their homes after realizing that people were skipping ...
Billy Joel cancels all of his upcoming shows after revealing brain disorder diagnosis
Billy Joel has canceled all upcoming concerts, revealing he has been diagnosed with a brain disorder that causes physical and mental issues. Joel, 76, has normal pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH, ...
6 doctors on Biden’s cancer diagnosis, how it may have arisen and his treatment options
President Biden’s weekend announcement that he has an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bone sparked the usual sympathy from supporters — and sharp suspicions among ...
You need more than Ozempic to fight food addiction. Here’s how
Are cookies and chips the new cigarettes? And soda, breakfast cereals and ice cream the new opioids? In his new book, “Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving ...
Contributor: The emergency in emergency medicine
If you have been to an ER lately — or if you’ve watched the disturbingly accurate TV show “The Pitt” — you’ve seen scenes that resemble field hospitals more than ...
Cancer diagnosis and a new book fuel questions about Biden’s decision to run in 2024
WASHINGTON — The revelation that former President Biden has advanced prostate cancer generated more questions than answers on Monday, prompting debate among experts in the oncology community over the likely progression of ...
Called to the threshold, a death doula learns from the dying
While I traveled from my apartment in Los Angeles to B’s house in the woods of Pennsylvania, I realized I knew nothing about death. I prepared myself to meet a ...
Biden is diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ form of prostate cancer
WASHINGTON — Former President Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, his office said Sunday, a devastating development after having dropped his bid for reelection last summer over ...
Contributor: AmeriCorps volunteers were making America healthy again. Until Trump fired them
A colleague has vanished from my workplace. Her name is Estefanny Casas. We worked together at a clinic in Richmond, in the Bay Area, until a cavalier snip from the ...
