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17 Jul
A new study finds both added sugars and artificial sweeteners are associated with a higher risk of early puberty, especially in children with a genetic predisposition.
16 Jul
Young women who suffer from PMS or PMDD are 10% more likely to develop heart disease later in life, a new study finds.
15 Jul
Calls to U.S. poison control centers involving nicotine pouches and young kids soared 763% from 2020 to 2023.
Folks who grew up near a polluted Missouri creek during the 1940s through 1960s may have higher odds for cancer now, new research shows.
The study focused on Coldwater Creek in St. Louis County. The area was contaminated with radioactive waste from the U.S. government’s atomic bomb program during World War II.
Back then, uraniu...
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed two senior officials who were appointed by President Donald Trump.
Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff, and Hannah Anderson, a top policy adviser, were both let go recently. The decision came as a surprise to several federal health officials.
Both wom...
Want to help maintain your brain health as you age?
Then pick up a guitar, start tickling a piano’s ivories or join a band.
Playing an instrument can promote a youthful pattern of brain activity, researchers reported July 15 in the journal PLOS Biology.
Specifically, older musicians were better able to understand...
Insomniacs have a much higher risk for depression if they have chronic inflammation, a new sleep lab experiment says.
Seniors with insomnia were three times as likely to report symptoms of depression if they’d been dosed with a substance that promotes inflammation, according to results published July 16 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Some newer antiseizure medications appear to be safer for pregnant women to take without risk of birth defects, a new study says.
Second-generation antiseizure drugs like levetiracetam, oxcarbazepine, gabapentin and zonisamide did not show an increased risk for birth defects, researchers reported July 16 in the journal Neurology.<...
Middle-aged women with more belly fat have a higher risk for stress urinary incontinence, a recent study says.
Fat around the waist and visceral organs increases by 33% a woman’s risk of leaking when she sneezes, coughs or exerts herself, researchers reported in the journal Menopause.
“Abdominal obesity may cause...
A new antibody shot that protects babies against RSV infection could be struggling to gain traction, researchers report.
Only about a third (35%) of babies eligible for nirsevimab got the injection during the 2023-24 RSV season, researchers reported today in the journal Pediatrics.
That was the first season that the monoclon...
Kids coping with chronic health problems like asthma also are struggling with the emotional burden of stress, fear and sadness, a new study says.
Almost 94% of comments posted online by chronically ill kids and their caregivers expressed negative feelings like disgust, sadness and fear, according to results published recently in the Jo...
Thousands of health workers lost their jobs this week after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward with major staffing cuts.
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized 10,000 layoffs across federal health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health...
YoCrunch yogurt products are being pulled from store shelves nationwide due to a safety concern, its manufacturer announced Monday.
Danone U.S., the maker of YoCrunch, said small, sharp pieces of plastic may be inside the dome toppers of some products, CNN reported.
The plastic could cause choking or injury if eaten. T...
A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia can limit access to mifepristone, a medication used to end early pregnancies.
The decision is the first of its kind and could affect how other states handle access to drugs that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Mifepristone is part of a two-drug regimen ...
Adult children aren’t likely to fill the void left by the loss of a spouse, a new study says.
Becoming widowed might cause a stronger bond between the remaining parent and their children, but these bonds don’t appear to ease the loneliness left by loss, researchers reported July 14 in Aging & Mental Health.
T...
A new AI-powered retina tracker can help doctors screen for a vision-destroying diabetic eye disease, researchers say.
The Simple Mobile AI Retina Tracker (SMART) program achieved greater than 99% accuracy in screening for diabetic retinopathy, researchers reported Monday at the annual meeting of The Endocrine Society in San Francisco.
...Folks seeking relief from low back pain in an ER aren’t likely to leave with a prescription for opioids.
The rate of ER opioid prescriptions for back pain fell by more than half between 2016 and 2022, researchers reported July 12 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Back in 2016, nearly a third of these visits (32%) re...
Doctors are regularly overlooking a common hormone-driven cause of high blood pressure, a new paper warns.
As many as 30% of high blood pressure patients seen by heart specialists and 14% of those seen in primary care have a condition called primary aldosteronism, researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Meta...
Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1900, TB — which usually attacks the lungs but can affect almost any part of the body — had killed 1 in 7 people who had ever lived, more than any other illness.
Fortunately, sanitoria, offering fresh air and isolation, sign...
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound are so effective it might seem that a person can lose weight without doing anything at all.
But that’s a false notion, experts say. Losing weight properly and keeping it off will require lifestyle changes that extend beyond a weekly GLP-1 injection.
“Many patients lose mus...
About 90% of the ice cream sold in the U.S. will no longer contain artificial dyes by 2028, federal health officials announced.
Roughly 40 ice cream and frozen dessert companies have pledged to remove seven artificial food dyes from their products in less than three years, Michael Dykes, president of the International Dairy Foods Associati...
A natural blue food coloring made from gardenia fruit has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The additive — dubbed gardenia blue — can now be used in foods like sports drinks, flavored waters, fruit drinks, teas, and both hard and soft candies, the FDA announced July 14.
It’s made by takin...
A new study of more than 1.2 million people found no link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and long-term health problems, including autism, asthma or autoimmune diseases.
The research, published July 14 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at 50 chronic conditions.
They included 36 autoimmune diseases, nine...