Dr. Sally Robinson detailed what life expectancy means, how being rich can help it and that it has been getting shorter in the United States, not longer.

Aloe does more than heal sunburns. Dr. Samuel Mathis discussed other medical uses for the plant’s gel. “What I find works best is to keep a small planter with an aloe vera plant at home,” he wrote.

Physicians have joined the conversation about medical gaslighting on TikTok to raise awareness that dismissing a patient's healthcare concerns is not only short-sighted, but it's bad medicine. Shannon Clark, MD, an OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine specialist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, was one. "I want to say something that just might blow your mind," Dr. Clark said. "It is possible for someone to have a medical condition or complaints or symptoms that are not related to any mental health condition they might have. It's true. So automatically attributing any complaint a patient might have to their mental health condition is just plain bad medicine."

Dr. Leila Wood, a researcher and social worker at UTMB’s Center for Sexual Violence Prevention, spoke about healing from sexual trauma on Dan Savage’s podcast.

The likelihood of developing dementia increases with age in the general U.S. population, as well as in people living with HIV in the US. However, a new study suggests that people with HIV who are over 75 may experience a higher prevalence of dementia compared to the general population—with the largest gap seen in women. A study authored by Dr Xiaoying Yu of the University of Texas Medical Branch analyzed data from Medicare.