Always Eat This With Turmeric
Turmeric not only adds unique flavor to food, it also has a variety of health benefits. Did you know that spicing your food with turmeric or even taking a supplement may not be enough? Our bodies can’t readily absorb enough curcumin, the main active ingredient in turmeric, to make a difference. However, there is a solution. By eating this...
8 Therapeutic Benefits Of Rosemary
As soon as you pick fresh rosemary, its natural, pine-like aroma floods your nostrils. Once it hits your taste buds, you experience its potent yet delicious flavor. Native to the Mediterranean, rosemary is one of the oldest medicinal herbs and has been used throughout history as a means to enhance memory. Scholars within ancient Greece used to wear wreaths of...
Daily Aspirin After Surgery Halves Colon Cancer Relapse
If you or someone you love has faced colorectal cancer surgery, a familiar pill might help keep the disease from coming back. A large Scandinavian clinical trial reports that a daily low dose of aspirin after tumor removal markedly decreases the chance of recurrence for a common genetic subset of colorectal cancers. Among patients whose tumors carry mutations in...
Smashing Urchins to Save Santa Monica’s Kelp Forests
If you have ever watched the sunset from Santa Monica Pier, you have a stake in what happens below the surface. In recent years, a volunteer-driven campaign coordinated by The Bay Foundation removed approximately 5.8 to 6 million purple sea urchins from nearshore waters in Santa Monica Bay. The goal was simple and bold: clear space for kelp to...
Herbal Remedies and the Hidden Risks of Daily Use
If you have ever sipped a calming tea for digestion or reached for a familiar herb your family swears by, you are not alone. Many of us assume that plant-based means gentle and safe, especially when a remedy is woven into cultural traditions. New evidence is challenging that comfort. A study published in Nutrients, led by Dr. Noura Abou...
From Roots to Remedies: Herbs Meet Modern Science
If you have ever sipped ginger tea for nausea or reached for turmeric when your joints ache, you are part of a very old story. Humans have used roots, leaves, flowers, and seeds for healing since prehistory, and modern labs are now mapping why many of those remedies work. In the United States, more than half of adults take...
Panel Tightens MMRV Rules and Weighs Hep B Birth Dose
Parents trying to keep up with their child’s shots just got new guidance to consider. A newly reconstituted federal vaccine advisory panel, appointed by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted to restrict early use of the combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine. The group advised against using the MMRV shot before age 4, favoring separate doses of MMR and varicella...
What a Fed Rate Cut Means for Your HELOC Now
If you have a home equity line of credit or you are thinking about opening one, the latest move from the Federal Reserve may already be nudging your costs lower. In September 2025 the Fed reduced its benchmark rate by 0.25 percentage points, the first cut of the year and possibly not the last. Variable-rate borrowing tends to feel...
Hidden Falls in Nursing Homes Skew Public Ratings
If you have a loved one in a nursing home, you probably check public ratings and safety measures to choose a facility and to sleep a little easier at night. A new federal watchdog review says that comfort may be misplaced. The Office of Inspector General found that many U.S. nursing homes are not reporting residents’ serious fall-related injuries...
Uber Eats taps Flytrex for drone delivery reboot
If you have ever watched your fries cool while a driver crawls through traffic, relief may be on the way. Uber Eats is restarting its pursuit of aerial meal delivery through a new collaboration with Flytrex, aiming to launch U.S. pilot markets before the end of the year. The plan is simple to describe and ambitious to execute: integrate...
