Dr. Deena Adimoolam-Gupta, a primary care specialist, joined Cheddar News to talk about how people can prepare themselves or their loved ones for emergency hospital visits. She explained that one of the most important things you can do ahead of time is create a fact sheet with all of your pertinent information like name, date of birth, address, and emergency contacts. Gupta also noted the importance of keeping a list of medications on a small piece of paper that can be inserted into a wallet.
How Foods Can Impact Mental Health
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration are meeting to review a gene therapy technique called CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Over 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year but today's treatments give patients a better chance at beating the disease and living a healthy life. Cheddar News spoke with Dr. Mehran Habibi, director of breast surgery with Staten Island University Hospital; Dr. Holly Marshall, division chief of breast imaging at University Hospitals Cleveland; and Dr. Neil Iyengar, breast medical oncologist with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center about the progress made in treatments.
Cheddar News checks in with your coast-to-coast weather forecast for Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.
Some pumpkin farmers in the West, particularly wholesalers in places like Colorado and New Mexico, are feeling the pinching effects of drought.
Breast cancer treatment advancements.
U.S. health regulators are warning consumers not to use more than two dozen varieties of over-the-counter eyedrops because of the risk of infections that could lead to blindness.
Cheddar News checks in with your coast-to-coast weather forecast for Monday, Oct. 30, 2023.
Resistance band workouts.
Clea Shearer talks breast cancer battle.
