WEDNESDAY, Aug. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A mobile smartphone app can help reduce the risk of death among people at high risk for suicide, a new study says. The app, called OTX-202, reduced suicide attempts by 58% among a large group of recently discharged psychiatric patients who had previouslyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks fighting high blood pressure might receive some help from a household air purifier, a new study says. Even in areas with relatively low air pollution levels, using a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) purifier at home might significantly lower a person’s blood pressure,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Up to 60% of women feel some level of fear about giving birth, but a new study suggests that a strong sense of mental well-being could make a difference. Researchers from Robert Gordon University in Scotland and the University of South Australia (UniSA)Continue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Victims of stalkers appear to have an increased risk of heart disease, a new study says. Women who had been stalked or had obtained a restraining order were more likely to develop heart problems later in life, researchers reported in the journal Circulation.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” This old saying is just plain wrong, a new study argues. Verbal abuse inflicted in childhood can harm a person’s future mental health as much as physical abuse, researchers reportedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City has infected 67 people and caused three deaths, health officials say. The cases have been reported in Central Harlem. Officials believe the source of the outbreak is cooling towers on nearby buildings, according to theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — There’s a better way of treating binge eating disorder, a new study argues. The method, called “regulation of cues,” reduced patients’ odds of binge eating by 20% compared to those who got standard cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), researchers reported Aug. 4 in JAMA NetworkContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — California’s emergency departments will be more clogged than ever as climate change pushes daily temperatures higher, a study finds. But there is one silver lining to the new research, however: Thousands of fewer deaths in California from extreme cold. Nevertheless, high temperatures willContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — There may be a connection between a community’s homicide and suicide rates: When murder rates rise, there’s typically a local uptick in suicides a year later, new U.S. research shows. These trends were especially strong for gun-related incidents, according to a team fromContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 31, 2025 (HeathDay News) — Scientists say the average person may be inhaling microscopic, lung-penetrating plastic particles at a rate that’s 100 times what was previously assumed: 68,000 per day. “Everywhere we look, we find microplastics, even in the air we breathe inside our homes and cars,” saidContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to remove the legal underpinning for most regulations against climate change. If approved, the EPA’s proposal would rescind the 2009 decision that set forth a legal basis to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants. Known asContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Firefighters work hard saving lives, and in process put their own lives at heightened risk from skin, kidney and other types of cancers, a new American Cancer Society (ACS) study finds. “Although this isn’t favorable news, this study shines a spotlight on theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Two years’ involvement in programs focused on healthy eating, regular exercise and “brain training” exercises appears to have helped a wide range of older adults — even those at heightened risk for Alzheimer’s — avoid cognitive decline, a new study finds. The findings,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, July 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It takes an average of three-and-a-half years for typical dementia symptoms to lead to a diagnosis, a new report finds. Diagnosis often comes even later for early-onset dementias. Speeding up the process is important, because “timely diagnosis can improve access to treatments andContinue Reading