TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Country singer Toby Keith, best known for chart-topping hits like “Who’s Your Daddy?” and “Made in America,” has died at 62 from stomach cancer. His death was announced on his website. Keith’s publicist, Elaine Schock, told the New York Times that the NationalContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New guidelines from the American Dental Association (ADA) are cracking down on the use of opioids for tooth pain. The guidelines say that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) taken alone or alongside acetaminophen should be the first-line treatment for managing short-term dental pain inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has resumed a national campaign that uses the stories of former smokers to warn Americans about the many health dangers of tobacco. Known as the “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign, seven new people are featuredContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Scientists say they’ve created the first 3D-printed brain tissue where neurons network and “talk” to each other. The breakthrough could be an advance for studying neurological processes in the lab, say a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This could be a hugelyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Police seizures of “magic” mushrooms have more than tripled within the past five years, the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse reports. The total weight of psilocybin mushrooms seized by law enforcement increased from 498 pounds in 2017 to 1,861 pounds in 2022,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The former ‘party drug’ ketamine has gotten some good press recently, with clinical trials suggesting it might be a powerful and fast-acting antidepressant. Now, one of the first “real-world” studies of ketamine against depression appears to support those findings. Researchers at the UniversityContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — They say money can’t buy happiness – and now a new study of Indigenous peoples around the world backs up that assertion. People living in small-scale societies on the fringes of the modern world lead lives as happy and satisfying as folks fromContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Age-related macular degeneration can lead to vision loss in seniors, but new therapies have offered fresh hope for preserving eyesight later in life, eye experts say. These cutting-edge therapies benefit both the dry and wet types of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), says theContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Follow-up from recent surgery for an enlarged prostate has revealed that Britain’s King Charles III has cancer, Buckingham Palace announced Monday. The palace did not disclose the type of cancer that was discovered. “During The King’s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Police killings of unarmed Black people are robbing the Black community of a precious commodity – sleep. Black adults across the United States suffer from sleep problems after they’re exposed to news of killings that occur during police encounters, a new study publishedContinue Reading