FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The state of California is suing several companies for their role in manufacturing “forever chemicals.” The lawsuit filed Thursday also claims that the companies, including 3M and DuPont, covered up the harm their products, commonly known as PFAS, were causing to the state’sContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The breast cancer of author and poet Stephanie Gangi has receded and advanced in wearying waves for two decades now. First diagnosed and treated in 1999, Gangi’s cancer spread to the bone of her sternum in 2014. In 2021, a tumor the sizeContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Zayne McCall was blue when he was born. Before his mother could hold him, doctors rushed him away to run tests. At first, they thought one of his lungs had collapsed. Further testing showed Zayne was born with heart defects –Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 swept across the world far more effectively than previously thought, with a stunning number of cases left unreported as recently as the summer of 2021, a new World Health Organization (WHO) study says. About 3 out of every 5 human beings carriedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Only one day after California voters approved allowing a state law banning flavored tobacco products to take effect, a tobacco giant has sued to prevent it. R.J. Reynolds on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging Proposition 31 and the law originally signed byContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Emergency rooms are clogged with people who are waiting for inpatient beds or other care and it’s causing a crisis, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). ACEP is one of more than 30 medical, patient advocacy and public health andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It’s a potentially deadly issue: Some U.S. school administrators don’t keep life-saving albuterol asthma inhalers on hand because they’re afraid of getting sued for misuse. That’s true even in states like Illinois, where strong “stock albuterol” laws are on the books, researchers say.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A common characteristic of autism is a reluctance to make eye contact with others, and researchers now think they know where in the brain this comes from. Brain scans show that folks with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had significantly less activity in theirContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Too little of the “sunshine vitamin” — vitamin D — in Black Americans could raise their odds of developing diabetes, new research suggests. Two new studies found an association between levels of vitamin D in the blood and insulin resistance, a precursor toContinue Reading
Three-fifths of world’s people may have been exposed to COVID virus. Many more people have been infected with COVID-19 than previously known, with as many as 10.5 infections for every reported case, new research suggests. Read more Liability fears keep some schools from stocking asthma rescue inhalers. Parents are advisedContinue Reading