Austrian health authorities are the latest to warn the public to stay away from unreliable sources of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, following recent reports of side effects serious problems linked to counterfeit products. Residents have reportedly been hospitalized with dangerously low blood sugar and seizures after taking …
Picture: SB Media Arts (Shutterstock) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will seek to add child psychologists to its staff to advise its efforts on regulate the Internet. Democratic Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said the FTC plans to add a psychologist to its staff by next fall, if not sooner, and expressed embarrassment that it had not …
The era of over-the-counter cold medications is coming to an end. Major retail chain CVS announced this month that it would remove certain cold and cough products containing oral phenylephrine from its shelves. The Food and Drug Administration may soon push for the ingredient to be removed en masse from these over-the-counter products, following a …
New research could complicate our understanding of ketamine as a potential treatment for depression. The study found that people with depression who were given saline or ketamine before undergoing anesthesia for surgery experienced similar improvement in their symptoms afterward. The results suggest that at least some of the therapeutic benefits seen with ketamine may be …
A new Gallup survey found that more than half of teenagers in the United States spend an average of 4.8 hours on social media every day. Responses came from 1,591 people ages 13 to 19, and the survey results show that as teens get older, they stay on social media even longer. Nobody really watches …
Further research could complicate the story by using exercise to help fight depression and other mental health problems. A study compared depressed and/or anxious people who joined a running program to those who I took a course of antidepressants, and found that both groups experienced a similar level of improvement in their mental health after …