In this segment of Cheddar News' be Well, we're diving into the benefits of halotherapy, which uses salt in a medicinal capacity. Sitting in rooms filled with the medicinal salts induce a calming effect and are said to aid with lung complications like asthma, bronchitis, and general coughs.
An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing and medical care — potentially without their consent — kicked off in seven California counties, including San Francisco, on Monday.
U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases.
