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10 Sep
A new study finds infants and young kids who eat a lot of fruit, oats and rye have significantly higher odds of being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which can lead to eye, heart, nerve and kidney problems.
09 Sep
Researchers are now testing a new semaglutide delivery platform that combines the medication with a special hydrogel to achieve sustained release over one month or longer.
07 Sep
Pregnant women with high levels of PFAS chemicals commonly found in consumer products may experience weight and heart issues later in life.
An analysis of where suicides are occurring in the United States shows that, tragically, location matters.
People living in poorer areas with fewer resources are significantly more likely to fall victim to suicide versus those living in more affluent areas, new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
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Having asthma appears linked to raised odds for miscarriage and troubles with fertility among women, new Danish research shows.
“We found that women fulfilling the definition of asthma had a higher rate of fetal loss and an increased use of fertility treatment. The more severe the asthma and the more flare-ups the women experienced, ...
A European epilepsy drug could be an effective treatment for sleep apnea, a new study suggests.
Patients who took sulthiame had few pauses in their breathing while asleep, as well as higher levels of blood oxygen, according to clinical trial results presented Tuesday at the European Respiratory Society annual meeting in Vienna.
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New research uncovers a possible reason why teenaged girls struggled so mightily with their mental health during the pandemic: Scans showed their brains aged far faster than expected during that stressful time, even faster than the brains of their male peers.
In the study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academ...
The latest AirPods from Apple will come with built-in hearing aids, the company announced Monday.
Designed as an over-the-counter hearing aid feature for those with mild to moderate hearing loss, users take hearing tests on iPhones or iPads running iOS 18, and then their AirPods make "personalized dynamic adjustments" to allow them to hear...
Annoyed that you still have a bit of tummy even though you work out all the time?
Exercise actually is helping you develop healthier belly fat tissue, a new study says.
That means that even if you don’t obtain six-pack abs, exercise is good for your long-term health, researchers said.
“Our findings indicate that in ...
Taking steroids more than doubles a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study warns.
Patients taking steroid pills, injections or infusions are 2.6 times more likely to develop diabetes than those not on steroids, researchers reported Sunday in a presentation at the annual meeting of the European Association for the St...
People with type 2 diabetes are nearly twice as likely to develop asthma, a new review has concluded.
Type 2 diabetics are 83% more likely to develop asthma, compared to those without diabetes, researchers found.
The relationship also works the other way around -- people with asthma are 28% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, res...
A flare-up in COPD can be predicted through changes in a person’s voice, a new study claims.
Patients’ voices become higher-pitched, more breathy or hoarse when a flare-up is imminent, researchers found.
Using those cues, researchers are working on a smartphone app that could help people prepare for an exacerbation of the...
Brain changes that signal Alzheimer's disease even before symptoms appear are linked to an increased vulnerability to financial scams, new research shows.
“Assessing financial vulnerability in older adults could help identify those who are in the early stages of mild cognitive impairment or dementia, including Alzheimer’s disea...
A form of psychotherapy can help women whose libidos have suffered as they go through menopause, a new study finds.
Cognitive behavioral therapy significantly improved sexual desire and satisfaction in a small group of middle-aged and older women, researchers said.
"To our knowledge, this is the first study that has examined the effi...
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has announced that she has completed chemotherapy for an unnamed form of cancer.
The princess, 42, made the announcement in a video message posted by Kensington Palace on Monday.
She said she plans to return to light duties as her health allows.
"As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you wh...
Beginning Jan. 1, Americans with private health insurance coverage should gain better access to mental health care, as well as care to help ease substance abuse, federal officials announced Monday.
“Like medical care, mental health care is vital to the well-being of America’s workers,” U.S. Acting Secretary of Labor Julie...
The recipient of the world’s first combined whole-eye and partial face transplant is doing well more than a year out from his groundbreaking surgery, NYU Langone doctors report.
Aaron James, a 46-year-old military veteran from Arkansas, says over the past year his new face has allowed hi...
At least 65 people in nine states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to recalled eggs, U.S. health officials report.
"The nine states include the three states where the eggs were sold -- Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin -- in addition to California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Utah and Virginia," the U.S Centers for Disease ...
A case of bird flu has been confirmed in a Missouri resident who had no known contact with dairy cows, poultry or wild birds, U.S. health officials report.
"The patient, who was hospitalized, had underlying medical conditions, was treated with influenza antiviral medications, subsequently discharged and has recovered," the U.S. Centers of...
Folks who like to stay up late are nearly 50% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who go to bed earlier, a new study finds.
However, it’s not just because they have an unhealthy lifestyle, according to findings presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Madrid.
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Losing weight can help a person with obesity -- especially those with diabetes -- fend off serious infections, new data shows.
It's an important finding, since "up to one in three hospitalizations in people with diabetes are for infections and people with diabetes are twice as likely to be hospitalized with infections than the general popu...
The time is now to prepare for a potential pandemic involving the H5N1 bird flu, says a group of international vaccine and public health experts.
Avian influenza vaccines need to developed, stockpiled and even delivered to people at highest risk of contracting the bird flu, the experts argue in an editorial published Sept. 4 in the Jou...
In exercise bike tests, twentysomethings who'd been vaping for at least two years had much lower exercise capacity than those who didn't, and the losses were equal to those of folks who'd spent a similar amount of time smoking.
The vaping young adults "found it harder to breath, their muscles became more fatigued, and they were less fit ov...