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28 Oct
A new study finds children exposed to cannabis in the womb have more problems with thinking, paying attention and impulse control.
25 Oct
A new study finds type 2 diabetes patients taking semaglutide have much lower odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease, regardless of weight, gender or age.
24 Oct
Researchers say vigorous exercise suppresses a hormone called ghrelin, which stimulates your appetite and tells your brain it’s time to eat.
Weed use among U.S. teenagers fell dramatically over the past decade, a new study shows.
By 2021, only about 16% of teens said they were currently using marijuana, down from 23% in 2011, researchers found.
All grades experienced a notable decline in current weed use, particularly among ninth graders, researchers said.
Further, ...
Researchers looking at the sweltering European summer of 2022 estimated that more than half of the heat-linked deaths occurring on the continent would not have happened if human-led climate change wasn't in place.
"Without strong action, record temperatures and heat-related mortality will continue to rise in the coming years,” said s...
Here's another good reason to help your child reach and maintain a healthy weight: A new study warns that kids who are either too skinny or too fat are at risk for impaired lung function.
However, if their weight can be normalized before they reach adulthood, this impairment can be offset, results showed.
“This highlights how i...
The health problems of preemie babies cause untold heartache for new parents.
But these families also face a strained financial future, a new study finds.
About 30% of parents with a very low birth weight baby, under 3.3 pounds, have had to make serious decisions about their employment and career based on their child’s health, ...
Smoking marijuana during pregnancy may quell your morning sickness, but it could also harm your child’s development, a new study warns.
Cannabis exposure in the womb is associated in early childhood with poorer thinking skills, researchers reported Oct. 28 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
These kids also have behaviora...
McDonald's Quarter Pounder beef patties have tested negative for E. coli contamination as an outbreak that has sickened 75 people in 13 states continues, the company announced Sunday.
Federal health officials had already identified slivered onions that had been used on the burgers as the likely culprit in the outbreak, which has landed 2...
The weight-loss drug Ozempic can guard against kidney disease in obese people, a new study shows.
Patients taking semaglutide -- the active agent in Ozempic and Wegovy -- had as much as a 52% reduction in kidney damage, as measured by urine testing, researchers reported Oct. 25 in the journal Nature Medicine. The results will also...
More than 20% of people in the continental United States might have drinking water contaminated with “forever chemicals,” a new study suggests.
Between 75 and 95 million Americans rely on groundwater that contains detectible concentrations of these chemicals, known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), the U.S. Geolo...
Most thyroid cancers are slow-moving and, if caught early, curable.
But some patients can present with what's known as an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) -- a rare and very aggressive tumor with a very poor prognosis.
Now, a clinical trial offers new hope to patients with a certain subtype of this tumor.
Combining can...
An experimental electric bandage might help doctors stop bacterial infections without using any drugs, a new study suggests.
Imperceptible low-level electric current applied through a skin patch caused a nearly 10 times reduction in amounts of Staphylococcus epidermidis, a common bacterium found on human skin, researchers reported...
Every minute spent waiting for a first shock from a defibrillator cuts the odds of surviving cardiac arrest by 6%, a new Dutch study finds.
"Our research shows that every minute of delay in giving the first shock has a major impact," said study first author says Remy Stieglis, a researcher at Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC).
...Hospice care is a compassionate and heartfelt enterprise, involving a medical team dedicated to maintaining a person’s comfort and dignity as they face the final curtain.
Now, new research shows hospice is also incredibly cost-effective as a health care service, a new report says.
For-profit hospice providers generate substanti...
Halloween is meant to be a spooky season, but it can be downright terrifying to someone suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
“Halloween is full of scary sights and frightful sounds that create additional challenges for someone living with dementia, which is why being a proactive caregiver is so important,” said...
Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the at-home use of the flu vaccine spray FluMist, how do you know that it's the right choice for you and your family?
One expert offers advice on the spray's efficacy and how to figure out if FluMist is your best bet against flu germs. Importantly, the spray will not be available ...
An outbreak of E. coli illness linked to onions used in McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded to now include 75 cases across 13 states, U.S. health officials announced Friday.
That's up from 49 cases in 10 states reported on Monday. The three new states with illnesses are Michigan, New Mexico and Washington.
"Of 61 people with inf...
As the popularity of GLP-1 meds like Wegovy and Zepbound grows, fewer Americans are turning to weight-loss surgeries to trim their waistlines, a new report finds.
Prescriptions of this GLP-1 class of diabetes and weight-loss medications more than doubled between 2022 and 2023, a new tally finds.
"In contrast, there was a 25.6% decrea...
With onions from one supplier implicated as the source of E. coli illness linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders, other fast food chains are now pulling the onions from their menus.
Representatives for Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut all told NBC News that some of their restaurants will remove the onions from their m...
A second person in Missouri who wasn't exposed to either poultry or dairy cows has been infected with bird flu, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.
This person shared a home with a patient who was first hospitalized with bird flu in August, but antibody tests have since shown that symptomatic health care workers who cared for the pat...
Some Americans should get more than one shot of the updated COVID vaccines because their age or certain health conditions make them more vulnerable to severe infections, U.S. health officials advised this week.
Six months after their first shot, people 65 and older and those who are immunocompromised should receive a second dose of the&nbs...
Wildfires that spread so fast they outrun the efforts of fire crews trying to contain them: These types of conflagrations are becoming far more common across the Western United States, a new study warns.
A fire's velocity could be even more important than its size when it comes to the threat to people and property, researchers say.
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