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FRIDAY, Jan. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — If you’ve picked up a bag of Marketside Broccoli Florets from Walmart recently, check your fridge or freezer. The company has issued a recall of the 12-ounce bags in 20 states after testing uncovered listeria bacteria in one sample. According to an announcementContinue Reading

MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It was a year in health news that will be hard to forget. As blockbuster weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1s made a sizable dent in the obesity epidemic, study after study revealed other ways in which these powerful medications can improve health. AtContinue Reading

MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The bounty of the holidays often leads to loads of leftovers landing in the garbage after they go bad. A freezer can prevent such food waste by preserving edible food for later meals, a new study suggests. Discarded frozen items make up justContinue Reading

THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Migraine patients often suffer a long time before docs zero in on the best dosage for drugs designed to prevent their terrible symptoms. But a recently approved daily migraine pill called Qulipta (atogepant) appears to be effective from day one in many patients,Continue Reading

MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Bedtime stories are a time-honored means of helping kids calm down and get a good night’s sleep. But these fairy tales can also serve another less obvious purpose — teaching children about the benefits of good sleep. Analysis of four traditional children’s talesContinue Reading

MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Dancing appears to lift the spirits of people with Parkinson’s disease. Depression eased in Parkinson’s patients who took months of dance classes, a new study published recently in the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows. Not only did their depression symptoms ease, butContinue Reading

THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The sicker a senior becomes, the more likely they’re going to develop kidney problems on top of their other health challenges. A new study published Dec. 17 in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), shows that as a person’s number of chronicContinue Reading

MONDAY, Dec. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A New York doctor has been sued by the state of Texas for prescribing abortion pills via telehealth to a Dallas woman. In a news release announcing the filing of the lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims that Dr. Margaret Daly CarpenterContinue Reading

MONDAY, Dec. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) — President-elect Donald Trump is calling for an end to daylight saving time, a practice he described as inconvenient and costly. “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Trump wroteContinue Reading

FRIDAY, Dec. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Beans, peas and lentils take center stage in newly proposed changes to dietary guidelines for Americans. In a report released this week by an advisory committee to the Agriculture Department, experts suggest that the protein-packed legumes are the perfect substitute for red orContinue Reading

THURSDAY, Dec. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A blood draw is a typical part of a person’s regular check-up. But that blood sample might hold a lot more useful information about a person’s health than doctors are currently getting. A new study shows that a routine part of a bloodContinue Reading

TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More breast cancers are being detected later in women, giving the tumors a chance to spread and become life-threatening, a new study finds. This increase in late-stage breast cancer affects women at all ages and ethnicities, according to results published Dec. 10 inContinue Reading

TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Bed sores can be more than debilitating and painful. Now a new study shows they can also dramatically impact a person’s recovery from a spinal cord injury. “Our study found that patients with pressure ulcers [bed sores] regained significantly less motor function throughContinue Reading

MONDAY, Dec. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Most Americans understand how deeply the dangerous opioid fentanyl has permeated the illicit drug market. Now, it’s even infiltrated the bodies of Gulf of Mexico dolphins. Researchers at Texas A&M University report that they’ve detected traces of fentanyl in the blubber of 30Continue Reading