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17 Sep
In a new study, college students who vaped scored below the normal range on cognitive function tests that assessed learning, memory, problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
16 Sep
Should you get the latest COVID vaccine? Do you still need to test if you've got cold-like symptoms? If you test positive, how long are you contagious in 2024? Dr. Nicholas Turner, Assistant Professor in the division of Infectious Diseases at Duke University has the answers.
13 Sep
A new study finds teens and adults who take high doses of amphetamines commonly prescribed for ADHD have 5Xs the risk of new-onset psychosis.
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
Deprivation, neglect and abuse during childhood can increase a person’s long-term risk of health problems, a new study warns.
“Stress is implicated in nine of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States today,” said senior researcher Dr. George Slavich, director of the UCLA Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Res... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
Counties and states where jails and prisons are packed are more likely to have higher rates of cancer, new research shows.
“These results aren’t surprising. Incarceration in the U.S. is recognized as a key element of social determinants of health and is linked to a wide range of adverse health outcomes,” said study lead a... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
A few cups of coffee each morning can help protect a person against heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, a new study says.
Drinking three cups of coffee a day -- or about 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine -- lowered the risk of health problems linked to the heart or metabolism, researchers found.
“The findings highlight t... Full Page
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
For the second time this year, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on a law that would create a nationwide right to IVF.
The bill was already blocked by Republicans earlier this year, but Democrats are hoping to use this second vote to pressure Republican congressional candidates on the hot button issue, the Associated Press reported... Full Page
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
That plastic wrap you find around the food you eat is far from benign: A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach into food during the packaging process.
Of that number, 79 chemicals are known to cause cancer, genetic mutations, and endocrine and reproductive issues, a team of international researchers reported Tuesday in ... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
Millions more people will die annually from antibiotic-resistant infections over the next 25 years unless steps are taken to counter this growing health threat, a new study warns.
The number of deaths linked to antibiotic-resistant bacteria is projected to grow to 8.2 million per year by 2050, up 75% from current estimates of 4.7 million a... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
As wildfires continue to burn across parts of California, a new study finds that smoke from these blazes and other air pollution could be harming kids’ mental health.
Repeated exposure to high levels of particle pollution increases kids’ risk of depression, anxiety and other mental health symptoms, researchers reported.
W... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
Brain training aimed at improving memory can ward off symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease for years, a new study claims.
Seniors experienced a slower decline in their memory and thinking abilities after undergoing brain training, compared to others who didn’t get the training, researchers found.
This benefit persisted for fiv... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
Most parents are placing their kids in harms’ way by moving them out of their car booster seat too soon, a new study warns.
Four out of five parents moved their kid out of a booster seat before the child was big enough, according to the report, Booster Seat Use in the USA: Breakthroughs and Barriers, published Sept. 16 by Sa... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter September 17, 2024
A small clinical trial suggests that a duo of drugs can extend survival for people battling advanced kidney cancer.
Researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, N.Y., developed the new regimen, a combination of pazopanib (Votrient) and bevacizumab (Avastin).
Pazopanib is from a class of cancer drugs know ... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
With implications for research around postpartum depression and other health issues, scientists have tracked the changes pregnancy brings to the female brain.
These changes weren't subtle: Big shifts in what's known as the brain's "white matter" versus "gray matter" were observed, according to a team from the University of California, Sant... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
For the first time, scientists have detected microscopic microplastics lodged in the human brain.
Researchers in Germany and Brazil say that 8 out of 15 autopsied adults had microplastics detected within their brain's smell centers, the olfactory bulb.
The particles were likely breathed in over a lifetime, since tiny floating microp... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
Fatty liver disease linked to diabetes and obesity can easily progress to liver cirrhosis, but new research suggests that GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic can help stop that.
In a new decades-long study, veterans with diabetes and what's known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) were 14% less likely to progress ... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
People with rare genetic variants linked to degenerative brain disorders like Parkinson’s disease are at increased risk of developing ALS, a new study finds.
Further, having these genetic variants increases the risk of a person having faster-progressing ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and dying earlier, researchers found.
T... Full Page
Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 (Healthday News) -- In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first time, U.S. health officials have reported that a person who lived with a Missouri resident infected with H5N1 became sick the same day.
That close contact "was also ill at the... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
Vaping may look cool when you're young, but it appears to be dulling the brains of college students, a new study warns.
College students who vape have lower cognitive function scores than those who don't, researchers reported Sunday at the American Neurological Association’s annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
And the more students... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
Many parents worry that their kids aren’t popular enough, or that they aren’t making the right friends, a new survey finds.
About 1 in 5 parents say their child aged 6 to 12 has no friends or not enough friends, according to the results of the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Ch... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
Tiny puffs from asthma inhalers could be causing big climate problems for Mother Earth, a new study warns.
Each inhaler dose contains some of the most potent greenhouse gases known, and they are adding up, researchers reported recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
By the time some inhalers are empty, t... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
Newfangled designs intended to make football helmets more protective have overlooked one key component, a new study suggests.
Nearly a third of concussions in pro football involve impacts to the facemask, a part of the helmet that has remained mostly unchanged during the past decade, researchers say.
Facemask enhancements could help ... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter September 16, 2024
People should prepare for the fall cold and flu season by getting the updated influenza and COVID-19 vaccinations, an infectious diseases expert says.
“When my patients ask me if they should be getting a COVID vaccine this year, yes, essentially anybody over the ages of 6 months, I'm recommending it,” Dr. Nicholas Turner, an as... Full Page