Category: Health and Fitness News

This easy tip will boost fat loss!No matter how long you’ve been working out, there’s one thing we all have in common: We all want results! There will be days where you kick butt, but there are also those days where you ride the struggle bus all the way through. These ups and downs are totally…

Take this butt challenge and get results.This Summer Butt Challenge is designed to tighten, tone, and lift your butt. You might ask: Is this challenge easy? No. Will I be sore? Probably. Will it be worth it? Definitely. How much time will I have to dedicate each day? Just 20 minutes (or less). The Challenge…

Older adults who turn to psychedelic therapies to treat psychiatric conditions like depression and PTSD are uniquely vulnerable to financial abuse, according to a STAT investigation. The substances could make people feel more emotionally connected with care providers who deliver the drugs, making them susceptible to manipulation by bad actors. The story highlights a lawsuit…

Blood tests that screen pregnant people for signs of genetic abnormalities run the risk of giving people false or misleading information, the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday. The agency put out a safety communication stressing that the widely used tests, often called noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs), aren’t cleared or approved by a regulatory body.…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially launched a new center that will forecast infectious disease outbreaks. The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics is “the equivalent of the National Weather Service for infectious diseases,” the agency said in a statement Tuesday. Along with experts in data analytics and disease modeling, the center…

Consumer genetics and genealogy company Ancestry announced a new feature, called SideView, that will give customers information about which bits of their DNA — and which parts of their ethnicity — were inherited from each parent. The tool can do that without having genetic information from the parents, which Ancestry says is a first in…

Apple is planning an expansion to the iPhone health app this year that would include additional sleep tracking and a tool to remind people to take medication, Bloomberg reported. The company could also add body temperature sensing to the Apple Watch this year and is still working on developing a blood pressure monitor. The new…