MONDAY, May 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other methods don’t boost the odds for tumor recurrence in young women who’ve survived breast cancer and carry the BRCA cancer genes, a reassuring, new report finds. The issue had been in question becauseContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many teens are spending their days buzzed on caffeine, with their parents mostly unaware of the potential risks, a new national poll says. A quarter of parents reported that caffeine is basically part of their teen’s daily life, according to the University ofContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women treated for infertility were twice as likely as those who conceived naturally to be hospitalized with heart disease within a year of delivery, recent research shows. They are particularly likely to land in the hospital with dangerously high blood pressure, with risksContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids and young adults who use social media for seven or more hours per day have double the risk of taking up vaping or smoking or both, new research shows. The study is based on a survey of almost 11,000 young British peopleContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Sleepaway camp can be a lot of fun for kids, but only if they’re ready for the experience. And that’s the tough part — figuring out as a parent when a child is ready to stay away from home, and what they’ll needContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Preeclampsia can be a life-threatening complication of pregnancy, but a new blood test can help predict a woman’s risk for the condition while she is in her first trimester, the test’s maker said Wednesday. It’s the first test in the United States that canContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — While some states have moved to severely curb women’s access to abortion, including abortion pills, over 8,000 women living in those states are getting the pills by mail each month from states without such restrictions. That’s according to new data from a #WeCountContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Babies born by C-section are unlikely to receive protection from a single dose of measles vaccine, a new study finds. A single measles jab is up to 2.6 times more likely to be completely ineffective in C-section babies, compared to those born vaginally.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who smoke during pregnancy run a higher risk of their kids becoming overweight or obese, and researchers now think they know one reason why. Children born of moms who smoked while expecting tend to have gut bacteria that is significantly different fromContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Smoking cigarettes while pregnant has long been known to harm the fetus, but new research shows things get even worse when marijuana is in the mix. The study by a team at Oregon Health & Science University (OSHU) in Portland involved more thanContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New mothers who like to smoke marijuana might wind up exposing their babies to THC through their own breast milk, a new study says. THC, the intoxicating compound in cannabis, dissolves in the fats contained in human milk, researchers found. Mother’s milk producedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than 320,000 U.S. children lost a parent to drug overdose during the past decade, according to a new study reported May 8 in JAMA Psychiatry. What’s more, the death rate accelerated during the period, more than doubling between 2011 and 2021, researchersContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Parents striving to be “perfect” will never attain that goal, and the aim isn’t even healthy for their families, a new study says. The risks of striving for perfection are such that researchers have now created a scale to help parents track theirContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Children and young adults who are couch potatoes could wind up with enlarged hearts, increasing their risk of heart attack, stroke and early death. Sedentary behavior contributed as much as 40% to the total increase in heart size between the ages of 17Continue Reading