HealthCentral

HealthCentral is a privately held online health platform based in the United States, established in 1999 by a doctor specializing in emergency medicine. In 2005, the company was acquired by a consortium of venture capitalists, including Polaris Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, The Carlyle Group, and Allen & Company. That same year, Christopher M. Schroeder was appointed as CEO to lead the company. In 2008, InterActiveCorp made a notable minority investment in HealthCentral, encouraging the original group of investors to reinvest in the company during this funding round.

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The Gut Microbiome, Hunger, and Different Types of Obesity

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Marygrace Taylor

It’s easy to think of obesity—a condition defined by a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater—as a single disease. But new research presented at this year’s Digestive Diseases Week suggests that obesity may have multiple subtypes, based on how a person experiences hunger. What’s more, which subtype a person has may have to do with the makeup of bacteria in their microbiome. “Obesity isn’t just one condition—it can show up in different ways.
Why Obesity Reduces the Enjoyment of Eating

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Marygrace Taylor

You probably don’t think too much about your ability to derive pleasure from food or think of it as something that varies from one person to the next. But in fact, the amount of enjoyment you get from eating is variable—and while it might seem counterintuitive, many people with obesity report losing the ability to get pleasure from eating rich food. “You might think that people with obesity are driven to eat more because they find rich foods particularly pleasurable.
What’s the Connection

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Marygrace Taylor

Up to one in eight U.S. women will develop breast cancer, and approximately a third of them have diabetes, data shows. (Nationally, 10% of women have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) Understanding how the two conditions are connected could play a key role in better treatment outcomes for both conditions, researchers say.
Is MS a Connective Tissue Disease? Understanding the Overlap and Differences

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Colleen Travers

Among the many reasons multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complicated disease to diagnose, symptoms can often mimic other conditions, such as connective tissue diseases (CTD)—an umbrella term for more than 200 disorders including lupus, rheumatic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Sjögren’s syndrome, and more. Like MS, some CTDs are also autoimmune diseases, where immune cells mistakenly attack healthy cells in the body.
How to Have a Healthy Pregnancy With Hidradenitis Suppurativa

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Alyssa Sybertz

There’s a lot to think about when you’re trying to conceive, from the best foods to eat (or avoid) to handling the rollercoaster of emotions that can come with pregnancy. If you have a chronic health condition, you’ll also be wondering how that might affect your pregnancy. For women with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS)—a chronic inflammatory skin condition—issues surrounding having a baby can be especially fraught.
High Number of Sick Days? Symptoms Behind Them May Be a Sign of Early Multiple Sclerosis

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Elizabeth Millard

Although multiple sclerosis (MS) can develop and progress rapidly for some individuals, many people can live for years in what clinicians call the “MS prodrome” phase—when unspecified symptoms occur before more classic signs of MS first appear. Given that early diagnosis and treatment of MS can make a notable difference for disease progression, identifying the prodrome phase would be a significant advancement for the condition and those who have it.
Learning to Live With Wet AMD

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Cheyenne Buckingham

For Anna Barnett, M.D., 73, a retired internist in Albuquerque, NM, dealing with eye issues is nothing new. From a young age, she wore glasses and contacts to help her manage severe myopia (near-sightedness). When she was in third grade, she tested 20/400, which an optometrist told her was considered legally blind without prescription eyeglasses. In her 40s and 50s, she developed two premature cataracts, which is when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy.
Dealing With the Emotional Uncertainty of Cancer

3 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Lauren Paige Kennedy

Imagine that you’re in your personal and professional prime. Married with a new baby. And doing a job you worked hard to land in a big city you’d always dreamed of inhabiting back when you were a kid. Life was pretty good for editor Jonathan Gluck, a veteran of New York and Vogue—until the floor fell out. It was 2003, he was then 38, and what he’d dismissed as an injured hip was instead diagnosed as multiple myeloma (MM), a type of blood cancer with a five-year survival rate of 60%.
In Its Second Year, This Summit Caters to People Living With Hidradenitis Suppurativa

3 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Danielle Gamiz

Even though hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is relatively common—up to 2% of Americans have it—one of the hardest things about living with this inflammatory skin condition is how isolated it can make you feel. That’s why the Association of Hidradenitis Suppurativa & Inflammatory Diseases (AHSID) dreamed up the I Reclaim HS Summit, set to kick off its second year this Friday, June 6 through Sunday, June 8 in Detroit, MI.
A Swimmer Finds Her Way With Multiple Sclerosis in the Water

3 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Mary Bolster

Like many women in their thirties, Lorna Scheel had a busy life—raising a family, juggling a career, and pursuing an advanced degree. So, when she began noticing slight changes in her coordination and balance, she shrugged it off. “I was the mother of two children, working full-time, and in graduate school. I put everything down to fatigue,” she says. That was in 2006.