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16 Oct
A new study finds nearly 40% of postmenopausal hormone positive cancers may be linked to excess body fat.
15 Oct
A new study finds women who work out at least three times per week lower their child’s risk of asthma by about 50%.
14 Oct
ADHD is the most common mental disorder in children, but the number of adults diagnosed with the condition is growing quickly. Experts say many adults don’t realize they have ADHD until their child is diagnosed.
Got yourself a standing desk because you know sitting is unhealthy? It might be the wrong move, new research suggests.
The study of over 83,000 British adults who wore special movement monitors on their wrists found no benefit to exchanging sitting for standing, in the absence of actual movement or exercise.
In fact, prolonged stan...
Jenna Cottrell is a young sports reporter working for a TV station in the Rochester, N.Y., area.
She's also a survivor of advanced Hodgkin lymphoma, who first got diagnosed at the age of 25 back in 2017.
After 12 rounds of the then standard-of-care treatment chemotherapy, "I've been in remission since 2017," Cottrell said in an inte...
People living with HIV who need a kidney can rest assured that outcomes are similar whether their kidney donor was also HIV-positive or not, a new study finds.
One- and three-year survival was the same, regardless of the donor's HIV status, as were the rate of serious side effects, such as infection, fever and organ rejection, said a team ...
Retired tennis legend Serena Williams has had a cyst on her neck "the size of a grapefruit" surgically removed and is in recovery, she announced Wednesday on social media.
In May, "I found this big mass on my neck," Williams, 43, said. "I was mortified by it and I got tests done -- everything you can imagine. Everything was negative, ...
Women and men experience similar rates of dangerous complications after a major heart surgery.
So why are women dying at higher rates than men when these complications strike?
That's the main question raised by a new study that involved more than 850,000 cases of Medicare beneficiaries who underwent high-risk heart surgeries.
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Most Americans 50 and older don’t place much trust in health advice generated by artificial intelligence, a new survey finds.
About 74% of middle-aged and senior Americans would have very little to no trust in health info generated by AI, the University of Michigan poll found.
At the same time, these older adults have a lot of ...
Following hurricane damage that shuttered a North Carolina plant that makes 60% of the country's IV fluids, U.S. health officials have invoked the Defense Production Act to hasten rebuilding of the factory.
A nationwide shortage of IV fluids has only worsened since Hurricane Helene wrecked the plant run by Baxter International Inc. late la...
The number of U.S. children who suffer seizures after swallowing prescription medications or illicit drugs has doubled in recent years, a new study finds.
Drug poisonings among kids resulting in seizures increased from 1,418 in 2009 to 2,749 in 2023, steadily rising about 5% each year, results showed.
These cases doubled among childr...
Public concerns about contracting RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) have significantly declined during the past year, a new survey shows.
About 1 in 4 people (26%) are now worried that they or a family member will get RSV during the next three months, the Annenberg Public Policy Center survey shows.
That’s less than the 1 in 3 ...
Obesity is a more powerful driver of breast cancer than previously thought, a new study suggests.
About 40% of hormone-positive breast cancers in postmenopausal women might be linked to excess body fat, researchers reported Oct. 15 in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
That’s significantly more than pr...
Folks with peanut allergies don’t have to worry that someone might be munching on the nuts during an airline flight, researchers report.
It turns out there’s no evidence to the commonly held belief that nut allergens can be spread through aircraft ventilation systems, a new review concluded.
“In fact, food-induced a...
Accident victims tend to flood emergency rooms on days with heavy air pollution, a new study shows.
The number of patients treated at ERs increase by 10% to 15% on days with increased particle pollution in the air, researchers found.
That increase is driven by cases of trauma, along with more people suffering breathing difficulties a...
It’s typically thought that medical school requires four years of study after graduating college.
But doctors might be able to shave a year off their medical education and still do a great job treating patients, a new study finds.
Graduates who took three years of medical school performed equally well on tests of skill and know...
Pharmacists may continue making compounded versions of the weight-loss medication tirzepatide while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration revisits its Oct. 2 decision to remove the medicine from a national drug shortage list.
What prompted the FDA to reconsider its decision? On Oct. 7, a compounding trade group filed a lawsuit challenging ...
People sense millisecond shifts in odor as quickly as they might spot a change in color, new research shows.
The study discounts the notion that smell is a "slower" sense than sight or hearing, scientists say.
"A sniff of odors is not a long exposure shot of the chemical environment that averages out" over time, explained study lead...
It’s natural for a parent to bundle an injured child into a car and rush their kid to the emergency room.
But that decision could actually delay their child’s emergency care, a new study shows.
Severely injured children brought to an ER by their parents aren’t treated as quickly as those who arrive via ambulance, th...
Women typically are urged to start receiving regular mammograms at age 40, but some might need to start even sooner, experts say.
Specific risk factors that increase risk of early breast cancer might prompt young women to consider getting screened earlier, said Dr. Michele Blackwood, director of breast surgery and women’s oncologic h...
Gene therapy could help obese kids avoid health problems associated with excess weight, including arthritis, a new, preliminary study in mice suggests.
The gene therapy prompts cells to convert inflammation-causing omega-6 fatty acids into beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, researchers reported Oct. 14 in the Proceedings of the National ...
Half of people who develop blood poisoning, otherwise known as sepsis, are dead within a couple of years, a new study finds.
A little more than 50% of patients admitted to an ER with sepsis died within two years, Danish researchers report.
“We found that certain factors increased the risk of death after sepsis, including, not s...
Some men might have damaged sperm that will increase the risk of pregnancy complications and health problems in newborns, a new study finds.
DNA defects in sperm can double the risk of preeclampsia, a dangerous pregnancy complication involving high blood pressure.
These defects also increase the risk of premature birth, the researche...