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FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Pollen is a known trigger for seasonal allergies and asthma, but new research suggests that certain plant species release pollen that are especially tough on asthmatics. Species-specific pollen alerts could help keep people with asthma safe, the Cornell University researchers reasoned. “Even thoughContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Deaths among Americans dropped by a significant 6.1% between 2022 and 2023, a new government tally finds. Much of this was due to COVID-19’s ebbing effect on deaths. During the pandemic, over a million Americans lost their lives, and in 2021 it wasContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The death toll from listeria linked to tainted Boar’s Head deli meats has risen to three, with nine more cases of the bacterial illness reported in the outbreak, an update issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. TheContinue Reading
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THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People who use marijuana at high levels are putting themselves at more than three times the risk for head and neck cancers, new research warns. The study is perhaps the most rigorous ever conducted on the issue, tracking the medical records of overContinue Reading
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THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An interactive text-message support program can help teenagers quit vaping, a groundbreaking new clinical trial finds. Teens who subscribed to the anonymous program, called This Is Quitting, were 35% more likely to report not vaping nicotine by the end of a seven-month study,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. doctors should be on the lookout for a more severe strain of mpox that is spreading widely in parts of Africa, federal health officials warned Wednesday. The alert, issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, came just hours after the WorldContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s more evidence to suggest that the common artificial sweetener erythritol might pose dangers to consumers’ hearts. The new study, involving 20 healthy adult volunteers, found that at doses commonly found in an erythritol-sweetened soda or muffin, the sweetener was linked to heightenedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Newly developed battery-powered electric bandages could help wounds heal more quickly, a new study reports. In animal testing, wounds treated with electric bandages healed 30% faster than wounds treated with conventional bandages, researchers reported Aug. 7 in the journal Science Advances. The bandagesContinue Reading
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THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — That vape pen might contain something even worse than nicotine, new research warns. Tobacco companies may be trying to duck federal restrictions on vaping products by replacing nicotine with “nicotine analogs” — related chemicals that have similar properties but unknown health effects, researchersContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with a genetic predisposition for high cholesterol can lower their levels by taking fish oil supplements, a new study shows. The results indicate that lifestyle can be a powerful influence on artery-clogging cholesterol, even if a person’s genetics tends to make thoseContinue Reading