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Business News > Mint Authors > Betsy Mckay

Betsy Mckay

ARTICLES BY BETSY MCKAY

Such wildfires are increasing in frequency and scope, and release heavy metals and other toxins into the air as they engulf homes and cars. (AFP)

Heart attacks, lung conditions jumped after Los Angeles wildfires

2 min read . 17 Dec 2025

About 243,000 more children under 5 years have died or will die this year than in 2024. (AFP)

For first time in decades, child deaths will rise this year

3 min read . 04 Dec 2025

CRISPR Therapeutics’ lab in Boston. The company is among those working on new therapies to lower cholesterol. CRISPR/WSJ

More drugs to fight high cholesterol are emerging

4 min read . 10 Nov 2025

Antidepressant use in the U.S. grew during the pandemic, especially among young women in their 20s and early 30s

‘Girl, take your crazy pills!’ Antidepressants recast as a hot accessory

8 min read . 19 Oct 2025

The rise of the combat cocktail for PTSD has its roots in the overreliance on a single class of drugs: benzodiazepines. (AP)

‘Combat cocktail’: How America overmedicates veterans

12 min read . 01 Aug 2025

Doctors are only now coming to grips with the harmful effects of drugs like Xanax, known as benzodiazepines.

Generation Xanax: The dark side of America’s wonder drug

13 min read . 14 Mar 2025

Musk called USAID corrupt without providing evidence. (Image: AFP)

What to know about USAID, the agency Elon Musk wants dead

3 min read . 04 Feb 2025

How someone sits and positions their arm, whether they just had a cup of joe or chitchat with their practitioner during the measurement, and other factors can produce readings that are higher or lower than normal blood pressure. (AFP)

Your blood pressure reading is probably wrong

5 min read . 17 Dec 2024

If the science works, it could represent a new approach to medicine: reversing rather than alleviating chronic illnesses.

Science is finding ways to regenerate your heart

6 min read . 30 Oct 2024

Studies show how important a role chronic inflammation plays in the biggest diseases of aging, both triggering and worsened by them. (Image: Pixabay)

Inflammaging is chronic, stealthy and can be a serious threat to your health

4 min read . 07 Oct 2024

After his hospital discharge three years ago, Tristan Mace needed a transport chair to get around.

He got a new heart. Now the 34-year-old is fighting to fix the transplant system

5 min read . 29 Aug 2024

The Russian president has called raising the birthrate a national priority. He declared 2024 “the year of the family” and enacted subsidies for those with three or more children.

Putin’s existential problem: Not enough Russians

8 min read . 06 Jun 2024

Researchers recorded what foods and drinks Aida Diaz chose from this 10,000-calorie smorgasbord, and in what order and portion sizes.

The quest for treatments to keep weight off after Ozempic

7 min read . 08 May 2024

Debi Lucas, a Parkinson’s patient, and her husband Doug Lucas. (Photographs by Asa Featherstone, IV for The Wall Street Journal)

Parkinson’s Disease Can Now Be Detected Through the Skin

4 min read . 20 Mar 2024

Doctors Can Now Edit the Genes Inside Your Body

Doctors Can Now Edit the Genes Inside Your Body

5 min read . 11 Mar 2024

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A new shot at using fish oil

7 min read . 05 Sept 2022

The drug was only 30% effective in reducing the risk of hospitalization and death in a final analysis of a pivotal late-stage trial, lower than the 50% effectiveness seen in a preliminary look

Behind a new pill to treat Covid: A husband-and-wife team and a hunch

9 min read . 21 Dec 2021

Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs said he has disbanded a task force of scientists probing the origins of Covid-19 in favor of wider biosafety research (Photo: Reuters)

Covid-19 panel of scientists investigating origins of virus is disbanded

4 min read . 25 Sept 2021

Since Covid-19 hit, research on viruses has exploded. Is it safe?

9 min read . 25 Sept 2021

Covid-19 could become like the flu if more people get vaccinated

6 min read . 12 Sept 2021