WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Republican governors in Arkansas and Indiana are asking the federal government for permission to ban soda and candy purchases with food stamps. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said her goal is to improve the health of the nearly 350,000 people in her stateContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new blood test can help predict if melanoma survivors will have a future bout with skin cancer, researchers say. The test looks for DNA fragments that are shed by tumors and float free in a person’s bloodstream. About 80% of later-stage melanomaContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. emergency room doctors treat a gunshot wound every half-hour, a new study has found. What’s more, firearm injuries appear to follow specific patterns throughout the year, with gun violence occurring more often at certain times, according to research from the U.S. CentersContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Nearly a half-million children could die from AIDS by 2030 if President Donald Trump follows through on plans to cut U.S. relief programs, a new study says. As many as 1 million additional children will become infected with HIV and nearly 500,000 willContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The world’s first baby conceived through robot-controlled fertilization has been born, researchers say. The boy was born to a 40-year-old woman in Guadalajara, Mexico, following a previous in vitro fertilization (IVF) attempt that had produced only one mature egg and no embryos, researchersContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 11. 2025 (HealthDay News) — Eviction bans implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic had an unexpected positive benefit for America’s children, a new study says. Reports of physical abuse, sexual abuse and child neglect all fell during U.S. eviction bans, researchers reported April 8 in the journal Pediatrics. ResultsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Night shift workers might be able to protect their heart health by only eating during daylight hours, a new study says. Participants in an experiment experienced fewer heart health risk factors if they only ate during the daytime while working a night shift,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration has let go of the last remaining U.S. health officials who oversaw HIV care for more than 1.1 million mothers and children in low-income countries. The move raises alarms about how these vulnerable groups will get care. The officials —Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks with low back pain can use their minds to effectively cope with their suffering, a new clinical trial says. Mindfulness meditation and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) both significantly reduced pain among people with chronic back pain, according to findings published Monday in JAMAContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cough? Sore throat? UTI? Eye infection? Artificial intelligence (AI) might one day be seeing you for these sorts of conditions, a new study says. AI programs appear to outperform human doctors when it comes to urgent care, researchers reported in the Annals ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Death comes for everyone, be they rich or poor. But no amount of money will help Americans live longer than Europeans, a new study says. Even the richest Americans face shorter lifespans compared to well-heeled Europeans, according to results published April 2 inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Black Americans have been dying from drug overdoses (OD) at higher rates than white Americans, a new study says. Both Black men and women are at greater risk of a fatal OD compared to white people, researchers reported April 1 in JAMA NetworkContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans taking cutting-edge weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound has skyrocketed in recent years, a new study says. The number of people without diabetes taking a GLP-1 drug more than tripled between 2018 and 2022 in the U.S., researchersContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled ground coffee sold in 15 states after finding it may have been wrongly labeled as decaffeinated. Hundreds of 12-ounce bags of Our Family Traverse City Cherry Decaf Light Roast Ground Coffee were part ofContinue Reading