Tai Chi may help people with chronic illnesses reduce their pain, improve their walking, and build strength. It can help to improve posture, balance and concentration, the researchers note.
Opdivo has been approved for use against an additional form of advanced lung cancer. The drug had already been approved for use against melanoma and for advanced cases of a slightly different form of lung cancer.
A diagnostic test has been developed that can help predict the future risk of cardiovascular disease for a teen. It can be adapted by physicians to assess teens’ future risk and to encourage healthy behaviors that could prevent heart disease.
Women who have had some ovarian tissue removed, frozen, and then transplanted back into them in an experimental procedure have gone on to have children.
Mass shootings have become common. There is growing evidence that mass shootings may act like a contagion, because some perpetrators appear to study past shootings so as to emulate them.
Health officials are reporting that more hospitals are encouraging new mothers to breastfeed their babies. Hospital practices that promote breastfeeding make the difference in whether and how long babies are breastfed
