Red Cross Announces Emergency Blood Shortage, Fewest Donors In 20 Years

George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images Weight loss drugs exploded into the public eye this year, and 2024 will bring more change to the evolving market.  The drugs skyrocketed in popularity in 2023 as they helped patients shed significant weight, despite hefty price tags, mixed insurance coverage and a handful of unpleasant side effects. …

Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton said she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of pneumonia in which doctors weren’t sure whether she would survive. In an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show, Retton said while wearing a breathing tube pumping oxygen through her nose that she was…

The lip glosses of my youth — typically thick and formulated with sticky waxes — were absolute magnets for crumbs and hair and felt extremely gloopy on. Anyone who has worn a traditional lip gloss has most likely done so because of the high-shine pay off, not because the texture was particularly pleasant to wear. …

Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building on October 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images U.S. patients and drugmakers will get a first glimpse of how much Medicare can negotiate down drug prices in 2024, setting the…

SACRAMENTO — A new bill argues that tackle football should be banned for kids under 12-years-old in California. Football’s biggest test may come in the California Assembly. “It’s not even about concussions. It’s about repetitive hits to the brain,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty. A Boston University study published in August examining 152 athletes who were under 30…

Reckitt are recalling batches of Nutramigen powders after finding bacteria in an “isolated overseas sample”.