FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — President Donald Trump has introduced a new effort to help Americans more easily share their health records with doctors, using new technology and artificial intelligence (AI) tools. “Today the dream of easily transportable, electronic medical records finally becomes a reality,” Trump said duringContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, Florida officials confirmed Thursday. The 71-year-old entertainer, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died last week in Clearwater, Florida. The official cause of death was acute myocardial infarction, the medical term forContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Singer Justin Timberlake has Lyme disease, a condition he says caused nerve pain, fatigue and other symptoms during his recent tour. In a post on Instagram Thursday, the 44-year-old pop star said the tick-borne illness left him feeling “relentlessly debilitated, both mentally andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hearing loss prevents many young adults from achieving their potential in schooling and careers, new research suggests. That’s especially true when impaired hearing hits young Black Americans or Hispanic Americans, the study found. “Hearing problems may make it harder for people to communicateContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Men diagnosed with what are known as Grade Group one (GG1) prostate tumors are often told they don’t require treatment, only “watchful waiting,” because GG1 cancers are at low risk of spreading. There’s even been talk among experts of not calling GG1 tumorsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks who smoke a lot of marijuana could be facing a more than four-fold odds of developing an oral cancer, new research suggests. “Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco smoke, which have known damaging effects on theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug.1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Someday, you might apply a small patch onto your skin to find out whether that odd little spot is a cancer or not. That’s the hope from a new technology being developed by researchers at the University of Michigan. The tiny silicone patch isContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It’s no laughing matter: Kids and teens across America are increasingly inhaling nitrous oxide, better known as “laughing gas,” to get high. Too often, this ends in tragedy. U.S. deaths linked to misuse of the common, legal inhalant climbed nearly sevenfold (578%) betweenContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — There may be a connection between a community’s homicide and suicide rates: When murder rates rise, there’s typically a local uptick in suicides a year later, new U.S. research shows. These trends were especially strong for gun-related incidents, according to a team fromContinue Reading
Organization wants to reach all patients with blood cancersContinue Reading