TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Children are seeing far fewer ads for junk food during kids’ TV shows, a new study finds. The number of food and drink ads during children’s programs has dropped by more than 95%, according to researchers’ analysis of television Nielsen ratings. This declineContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nearly half of counties in the United States contain at least one “pharmacy desert,” where there’s no retail pharmacy within 10 miles, a new study reports. “As pharmacies close, more and more Americans are left without easy access to medications,” said senior investigatorContinue Reading
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MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Reversing a prior downward trend, searing summers have caused a sharp uptick in the numbers of Americans who die from heat-related causes, new data shows. A look at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deaths data for 1999 through 2023 showed aContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Troubled transgender students are more likely to turn to school staff than their own parents for support, a new study finds. Trans teens feeling depressed and anxious are 74% less likely to seek help from parents than from adults at school, compared toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped millions of Americans navigate the health challenges of the pandemic, is recovering at home after being hospitalized for a West Nile infection. Fauci should make a full recovery, a spokesperson told the Associated Press on the condition ofContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As a summer surge in COVID cases begins to ebb and Americans brace themselves for yet another wave of infections this winter, more free COVID tests will soon be available to all, federal health officials announced Friday. Starting in late September, every U.S.Continue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers now have a better idea where love resides in the human brain — and which types of love are the most powerful. MRI scans show that love mainly resides in areas of the brain associated with the processing of social cues, researchersContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Americans of means are fleeing heavily polluted places in the United States for cleaner locales, a new study has found. Pollution levels are a factor in families’ decision to move within the United States, but only richer households can afford to move toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. opioid epidemic has caused a startling number of overdose deaths, but a new survey shows that most Americans still have no idea how to help an OD victim. More than 3 in 4 people (77%) said they would not know howContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A type of drug used to treat Alzheimer’s disease appears to slow the progression of Lewy body dementia, the brain disease that afflicted comedian Robin Williams prior to his suicide. Cholinesterase inhibitors prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine, a chemical messenger important for memoryContinue Reading