THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Holiday travel is always stressful, but particularly so for people with food allergies. Airlines don’t always honor requests to protect the health of people with food allergies during flights, a new study published Dec. 5 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.Continue Reading

FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — How long Americans can expect to live varies dramatically — and the gap continues to widen. A new report says health inequalities have, in essence, created 10 Americas. These mutually exclusive populations are divided along familiar fault lines, including race, ethnicity, income andContinue Reading

THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In a move guaranteed to alarm many, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal opponent of vaccines and other tenets of mainstream health care, to head the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The department encompassesContinue Reading

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People are at higher risk of schizophrenia if they indulge in psychedelic drugs, a new study warns. Patients who land in the ER following hallucinogen use have a 21-fold higher risk of developing schizophrenia compared to the general population, Canadian researchers report. EvenContinue Reading

MONDAY, Nov. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Americans’ well-being varies widely between different regions of the nation, a new study reports. People in the southern U.S., Appalachia and the Rust Belt states score lowest on the Human Development Index (HDI), a composite measure that includes a population’s life expectancy, educationContinue Reading

MONDAY, Nov. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Thousands of Americans with heart trouble have small implanted defibrillators, to help regulate their heartbeat and keep cardiac events at bay.  But new research finds that on extremely hot days, people with the devices face nearly triple the odds for a dangerous arrhythmiaContinue Reading

THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than a year after its advisory panel unanimously declared the drug phenylephrine to be useless against nasal congestion, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing that it be removed from common over-the-counter decongestants. Products that include phenylephrine as an active ingredientContinue Reading