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01 Apr
Overweight and obese adults who followed a 4:3 intermittent fasting plan dropped more pounds in one year than those who counted calories.
31 Mar
F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, of the Yale School of Medicine talks with Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, of the Baylor School of Medicine about the rise in vaccine refusal and the backlash against scientists.
28 Mar
A new study finds sucralose, the primary sweetener in Splenda, changes brain activity related to hunger. Researchers say the results could be stronger cravings.
The inability to pay for health care has reached a new high in the United States, a new study says.
More than one-third of Americans — an estimated 91 million people — say they couldn't afford to access quality health care if they needed it today, according to the latest West Health-Gallup Healthcare Affordability Index.
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Insomnia and vertigo are health conditions so well-known that movies have been named after them.
But only a quarter of Americans know about a condition that occurs even more often than vertigo or insomnia, called dysphagia, a new study says.
Dysphagia is a condition in which people have trouble swallowing, due to nerve, muscle or str...
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 Network Open.
The OD death rate for Black men surpassed the rate for white men in 2016, and...
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul.
The eyes also might help detect seniors at risk for a common syndrome in which they emerge from surgery in a state of delirium, new research suggests.
Seniors who have thicker retinas are about 60% more likely to develop post-surgical delirium, researchers reported April 1 in the journal...
Hundreds of U.S. research projects aimed at boosting vaccine confidence have been shut down -- just as preventable diseases like measles and flu are on the rise.
Since Jan. 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has canceled more than 1,600 research grants.
Around 300 of those were for vaccine-related projec...
For nearly two decades, a stroke had left a woman unable to speak -- until now.
Thanks to a new brain implant, her thoughts are being turned into real-time speech, giving her a voice again for the first time in 18 years.
The device was tested on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who lost her ability to speak after a stroke....
A major round of job cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) could weaken efforts to protect American workers, according to federal health officials.
About two-thirds of NIOSH staff -- roughly 875 people -- may lose their jobs as part of a larger restructuring ordered by U.S. Department of Health and Human...
Microplastics appear to be contributing to chronic diseases in shoreline areas of the United States, a new study suggests.
High blood pressure, diabetes and stroke rates are higher in coastal or lakefront areas with greater concentrations of microplastics in the environment, researchers reported at a meeting of the American College of Card...
The heart-related death rate among pregnant women and new mothers more than doubled between 1999 and 2022, researchers have found.
Just under 9.1 mothers for every million people died from heart-related diseases in 2022, up from 3.6 per million in 1999, according to results presented Sunday at the American College of Cardiology’s ann...
Personalized support can help more people at risk of colon cancer attend a potentially life-saving colonoscopy appointment, a new study says.
About 55% of people assigned a patient navigator got a follow-up colonoscopy after their stool test revealed a risk of colon cancer, compared with nearly 43% of patients who were simply notified of t...
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., researchers reported March 31 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Fasting every other day can prompt more weight loss than simply cutting calories, a new clinical trial shows.
People who undertook 4:3 intermittent fasting lost just under 8% of their body weight within a year, compared to a 5% loss among people who cut their daily calories by about a third, researchers reported March 31 in the Annals ...
A marathon can be a daunting challenge, particularly for folks worried their hearts can’t stand the strain of running 26.2 miles.
But these events are safer than ever for those with heart concerns, according to a new study published March 30 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The risk of dying from car...
COVID-19 and influenza burned through the U.S. during this year’s cold and flu season, and deadly measles outbreaks have sickened people in 19 states.
So what does it take to get people vaccinated against these preventable diseases?
Essentially, an outbreak within a person’s own community appears to be one of the most pot...
A new drug may help protect millions of people from heart attacks and strokes by lowering a little-known risk factor in the blood.
The drug, made by Eli Lilly and called lepodisiran, lowered levels of a tiny particle called Lp(a) by 94% with a single shot, the study shows. Lp(a) is a mix of protein and lipids.
The drug's effects last...
A top vaccine official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is stepping down, warning that vaccine misinformation is coloring the country’s top health decisions.
Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said he will resign and retire by April 5.
In a letter to the acti...
Wearing a smartwatch might do more than track steps (or your texts) -- it could be a powerful tool for helping people with type 2 diabetes stay active, a new study says.
Participants were more likely to start and maintain an exercise regimen if they had a smartwatch providing them feedback and encouragement, researchers reported March 27 i...
Certain stages of sleep – deep sleep and dream sleep – appear to contribute to brain health in ways that affect risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says.
People who get less deep sleep or dream sleep have smaller volumes in critical brain regions, researchers reported today in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medici...
Use of cutting-edge weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound has increased dramatically among people with type 1 diabetes, raising safety concerns among experts, a new study says.
Both adults and children with type 1 diabetes are taking the drugs more often to manage obesity, researchers reported in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and...
Breast-conserving therapy for breast cancer might not conserve as much as previously thought, a new study suggests.
Women’s breasts can shrink considerably after they’ve undergone radiation therapy and lumpectomy for their early-stage breast cancer, researchers reported March 27 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Sur...