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20 Oct
More teens are quitting HS sports saying they don’t look right for the sports based on what they see in the media and social media, according to a new study.
19 Oct
In a new study, participants recently infected with COVID-19 were six times more likely to develop Guillain-Barré syndrome, where the immune system attacks the nerves.
18 Oct
A new study finds adults with ADHD are nearly 3 times more likely to develop dementia compared to those without the condition.
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter May 1, 2024
In yet another sign that bird flu is spreading widely among mammals, a new report finds more than half of cats at the first Texas dairy farm to have cows test positive for bird flu this spring died after drinking raw milk.
Published Tuesday in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, the report details the early stages of the inv... Full Page
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter May 1, 2024
The Justice Department has recommended that marijuana be reclassified as a less dangerous drug, a move that signals a significant shift in U.S. drug policy.
The proposal, first reported Tuesday by the Associated Press, still has a long way to go before it becomes official policy: First, it has to be reviewed by the White House Off... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 1, 2024
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander people have cancer death rates that are two to three times higher than they are in whites, new data shows.
The first-of-its-kind report, issued by the American Cancer Society (ACS) on May 1, focuses solely on the cancer risk of Americans who’ve descended from regions along the Pacific Rim, the A... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 1, 2024
Feeling angry constricts blood vessels in unhealthy ways and could raise a person's long-term odds for heart disease, new research warns.
“If you’re a person who gets angry all the time, you’re having chronic injuries to your blood vessels,” said study leader Dr. Daichi Shimbo, a cardiologist at Columbia University Irving Medical C... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
All women should start getting mammograms every other year beginning at age 40, the nation’s top panel of preventive health experts announced Tuesday.
About 20% more lives can be saved from breast cancer by moving the regular screening age up to age 40, rather than starting at age 50, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) esti... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
At what age does loneliness strike adults the hardest?
A new review maps it out, finding that people are more lonely as young adults, grow less lonely as they approach middle age, and then fall back into loneliness in old age, researchers reported April 30 in the journal Psychological Science.
“What was striking was how co... Full Page
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
The benefits of physical fitness for kids spill over into their mental health, new research shows.
Getting plenty of exercise may guard against depressive symptoms, anxiety and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new study published April 29 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics found.
And the more exercise, the... Full Page
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
As bird flu continues to spread among dairy cows, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday it is now testing ground beef for any presence of the virus.
The agency said it is sampling ground beef bought in grocery stores in states where dairy cattle have tested positive for the virus, also known as H5N1, CNN reported. Officia... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
Doctors argue that genetics aren’t destiny when it comes to a person’s health, and a study appears to support that notion.
A healthy lifestyle can offset the effects of life-shortening genes by more than 60%, researchers found.
People at high genetic risk of a curtailed lifespan could extend their life expectancy by nearly 5.5 ye... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
Teens who vape frequently are exposing themselves to harmful metals like lead and uranium, a new study finds.
Lead levels in urine are 40% higher among intermittent vapers and 30% higher among frequent vapers, compared to occasional vapers, results show.
And urinary levels of uranium were twice as high among frequent vapers as occasi... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
A middle-aged Seattle man collapsed in his Portland, Ore.-area hotel room, where he was staying during a business trip.
He’d just tried fentanyl for the first time, and it very nearly killed him by literally destroying his brain.
Inhaling fentanyl caused terrible inflammation throughout large sections of white matter in the patient... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
As the battle over abortion continues to rage in the courts and American politics, a new report estimates that one in every four U.S. women will undergo the procedure during their lifetime.
The study was issued by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization focused on sexual and reproductive health that supports acce... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
Kids who don’t like vaccination shots might soon have an alternative in a painless skin patch, researchers say.
More than 90% of 190 Gambian infants were protected from measles and all were protected from rubella after receiving a single vaccine dose through the patch, early trial results show.
The patch contains an array of micro... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
H5N1 avian "bird" flu is making headlines this week, with new reports finding inactive virus detected in 1 in 5 U.S. milk samples.
That means the virus is infecting mammals such as dairy cows, and now researchers report it's turned up in a bottlenose dolphin in Florida.
“We still don’t know where the dolphin got the virus and ... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter April 30, 2024
At major medical centers across the southeast, 1 in every 20 visits to emergency departments involve people who are homeless or face "housing insecurity," a new U.S. study finds.
Concerns of suicide was the leading medical reason bringing these types of patients to the ER and many were uninsured, said a team reporting recently in the jour... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter April 29, 2024
Laboratory tests used by millions of Americans are soon to be classified as medical devices, and as such be regulated by U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency announced Monday.
The new rule does not apply to tests and kits made by big medical device manufacturers -- those already face FDA review.
Instead, the agency is widen... Full Page
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter April 29, 2024
Live bird flu virus has not been found in any of the first batch of retail milk samples tested, federal health officials said Friday.
Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows, the early findings should reassure the public that the milk sold in stores remains safe, officials added.
In the online update, the U.S. Food an... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter April 29, 2024
Britain's King Charles III is back to resuming his royal duties following treatment for cancer, Buckingham Palace announced Friday.
"His Majesty The King will shortly return to public-facing duties after a period of treatment and recuperation following his recent cancer diagnosis," the Palace said in a statement.
On Tuesday, Charle... Full Page
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter April 29, 2024
A long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes has been delayed indefinitely, the Biden administration said Friday.
“This rule has garnered historic attention, and the public comment period has yielded an immense amount of feedback, including from various elements of the civil rights and criminal justice movement,” U.S. Health and Human Serv... Full Page
Lori Saxena HealthDay Reporter April 29, 2024
A blood test could help doctors spot the signs of knee osteoarthritis at least eight years before it shows up on X-rays, a new study claims.
After analyzing the blood of 200 white British women, half diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis and half without, researchers discovered a small number of biomarkers distinguished the women with osteoar... Full Page
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