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Facial exercises, or “face yoga,” won’t help you to lose weight in your face, experts say. In fact, the point of facial exercises is to make your face appear fuller and therefore younger, Murad Alam, MD, vice chair of dermatology at Northwestern University, explained. As you age, the fat in your face, known as fat…

For children and teens living with migraine, there may be a new preventive treatment, according to a preliminary study released February 26, 2025, that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 77th Annual Meeting taking place April 5–9, 2025, in San Diego and online. Researchers found the drug zonisamide, which has been used…

When people have Alzheimer’s disease, their brains slowly accumulate abnormal clumps of two proteins: amyloid and tau. At some point, researchers believe, those protein clumps start wreaking havoc, damaging and killing brain cells and causing symptoms of dementia. Amyloid clumps (often called plaques) start building up early in the Alzheimer’s process. In fact, people can…

A measles outbreak in the U.S. as of Monday had grown to nearly 100 cases — primarily affecting children and teenagers in Texas, with nine cases also in New Mexico. As a Chicago doctor explained, people born after 1957, but vaccinated before 1968, may not have the best immunity from infection — because vaccines at…

Shortly after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for a team to study the use of antidepressants, antipsychotics and obesity medications in children, claiming these medications may cause a “threat” to adolescents. Psychiatrists and obesity experts…