Over the past two decades, researchers have come to think of skeletal muscle as being more than just machinery. Rather, it’s an endocrine organ that manufactures and releases chemical messengers into your bloodstream. This reframe has important implications for...
The mouth doesn’t get much respect (or attention) within the medical world. Have you ever wondered why that is? Or more specifically, why oral health is mostly cordoned off from other aspects of your health? Does that make sense? It turns out this separation...
While anemia has dominated discussions of COVID-19’s hematologic effects, an emerging and clinically important finding is elevated hematocrit in the post-acute phase of infection. As millions of patients recover—or partially recover—from COVID-19, a subset...
Once upon a time, sex was good. But then menopause happened. And somewhere between the hot flashes, the sleep disruption, the vaginal changes, and the way your body started feeling unfamiliar to you, your sex life quietly faded away. Maybe it’s been months....
Americans are living longer than ever before, thanks in large part to advances in medical technology, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition. On the surface, that sounds like good news. And in some ways, it is. But here’s what doesn’t get nearly enough...
