WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Illinois health officials are warning residents to be on alert after the state’s first case of Powassan virus was confirmed in a resident who became seriously ill. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) hasn’t determined whether the person was infected in Illinois,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — For 30 years, Americans have relied on a yearly government report to understand how many families go without enough food. That report is now ending. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Saturday it will no longer publish Household Food Security reports, whichContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Louisiana health officials have confirmed a fifth death this year linked to Vibrio vulnificus, a rare and dangerous flesh-eating bacteria found in warm coastal waters. The bacteria is most common between May and October, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control andContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Sept. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Researchers in the Netherlands turned a major music festival into an unexpected laboratory to investigate a question that has long puzzled scientists and bug-bitten individuals alike: What makes some people more irresistible to mosquitoes than others? For three consecutive days at the LowlandsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Every summer, hazy skies and the smell of burning wood remind Americans that wildfires affect far more than just the communities where they ignite. Their smoke drifts for hundreds, even thousands of miles, darkening the air in cities across the nation. But theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An effective weight-loss pill to rival injectable drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound might be on the horizon, clinical trial results show. An experimental GLP-1 pill called orforglipron promoted substantial weight loss without the need for weekly injections, according to final clinical trial resultsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials want to take Orange B — an artificial food dye that hasn’t been used in more than four decades — off the books. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it plans to repeal regulations that have allowedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials are cracking down on telehealth companies’ promotion of unapproved versions of prescription drugs, including popular weight loss medications. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released more than 100 warning letters aimed at both drugmakers and online healthContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — LGBTQ+ teenagers in the United States might be losing sleep due to violence, bullying and rejection, a recent study says. Gender and sexual minority teens are more likely to have trouble falling asleep at night, researchers reported in June in the Journal ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Over-the-counter sales have tanked for the overdose reversal drug naloxone, likely due to its high price, a new study says. Naloxone (Narcan) is a nasal spray that rapidly reverses an overdose by blocking opioid receptors in the body. It has been a keyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A triple-sized weekly dose of Ozempic works better to help people with obesity shed excess pounds without significant side effects, new clinical trial results show. Obese folks lost more weight taking 7.2 mg of semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) a week than those taking either theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Most Americans would be healthier if the nation dropped daylight saving time, a major new study says. Switching to permanent standard time would prevent about 300,000 cases of stroke per year and result in 2.6 million fewer people with obesity, researchers estimate inContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Half of people who start taking the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Ozempic drop it within a year, a new study says. About 52% of people in Denmark prescribed semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) for weight loss stopped taking it after one year, researchers reported Saturday atContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Sept. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — On World Sepsis Day, health experts remind Americans that sepsis strikes 1.7 million people in the U.S. each year and causes more than 350,000 deaths. Yet despite those staggering numbers, many Americans don’t know what sepsis is or how to recognize it beforeContinue Reading