#preventive-care

#preventive-care

Dr Lauren Stennis is a New Orleans-born general dentist and the owner of Smile Philosophy Dental Care, a Black-owned practice serving the Bayou St John and Mid-City areas. Her career reflects a steady focus on building trust, improving access, and running a people-first healthcare business. She spent her early childhood in Atlanta before returning to New Orleans, where community and culture played a central role in her upbringing. That background continues to shape how she approaches leadership and patient care.

Just as there have been remarkable advances in weather forecasting with the use of large language models, so will there be for determining an individual's risk of the major age-related diseases (cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative). These diseases share common threads, such as a long incubation phase before any symptoms are manifest, usually two decades or more. They also have the same biologic underpinnings of immunosenescence and inflammaging, terms that characterize an immune system that has lost some of its functionality

Medical experts are questioning the White House's explanation for President Donald Trump's MRI tests as preventive. A Monday memo released by presidential physician Sean Barbabella described the results of a thorough evaluation of cardiovascular and abdominal health as normal. This level of detailed assessment is standard for an executive physical at President Trump's age, Barbabella said. But imaging experts who spoke to Scientific American expressed doubts as to Barbabella's assertion that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening is typical preventive care.

Mental health nowadays is seemingly almost glorified. A ton of people are blaming things on, 'Oh, it's just my OCD, ADHD, dyslexia, etc.' (undiagnosed as well) - when these sudden changes can be huge telltale signs of actual diseases. I saw someone come into our neuro department after experiencing some fasciculations that we assumed were benign. But she explained how they acted with her 'anxiety and OCD,' which she had undiagnosed. She had late-stage MS.

"The asset of health is among the few, if not only, luxuries we enjoy in life. With access to better health and especially effective healthcare, we can manage life well and provide for ourselves, our families and our communities."

"This is very worrying, because if past is prologue, it may suggest that they are preparing to eliminate or emasculate the committee," Peter Lurie, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told The New York Times.

The findings highlight that heart disease and cancer lead to over 1.3 million deaths annually in the U.S., with many being preventable through early intervention.

The number one biggest mistake to avoid when it comes to kitchen drain maintenance is waiting until there's a big clog to tend to it.