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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A ballot measure to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the state of Florida failed on Tuesday. While 55.9% of Florida voters backed the proposed amendment, it did not reach the 60% threshold needed to make the initiative part of the state’sContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Although numerous studies have shown that marijuana use during pregnancy may harm both the fetus and a mom-to-be, almost 6% of women responding to a recent survey said they used weed while pregnant. That’s more than one in every 20 pregnancies, noted aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People who regularly use marijuana experience changes in their brain structure and function, but it’s not clear that cannabis is the cause, a new study finds. Researchers found specific differences in the brains of people who’d ever used weed, particularly in areas denselyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — 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 currentContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — 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 JAMAContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — 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- andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — 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 thanContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — PFAS “forever chemicals” can be found in drinking water around the world, whether it comes from a tap or a bottle, a new study warns. Ten specific PFAS chemicals were found in samples of bottled and tap water sourced from 15 countries aroundContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A national recall of meat and poultry has been expanded to include close to 12 million pounds of products that may have been contaminated with listeria, U.S. health officials announced. In addition, the updated recall noted that some of the affected products “wereContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — 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 aboutContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Oklahoma meat processor BrucePac is recalling close to 10 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry that may have been contaminated with the Listeria bacterium. In an announcement updated this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), the meatContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The Fisher-Price company is recalling more than 2 million of its Snuga infant swings, after the suffocation and deaths of five infants who went to sleep while in the swings. “The swing should never be used for sleep and bedding materials should neverContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Generations of parental warnings may not be wrong: A massive study of available data finds teens who use marijuana have significantly worse outcomes at school. Data from 63 studies involving almost 440,000 youths found “cannabis use during adolescence is probably associated with lowerContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — If you’re in chronic pain and believe medical marijuana to be the solution, there’s a good chance your doctor might not agree. In a new survey of people living in states where medical cannabis is legal, 71% of people with chronic pain thoughtContinue Reading