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FRIDAY, Jan. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Some brain cells are more susceptible to the ravages of aging than others, a new mouse study has found. These results could shed new light on why people’s risk for dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other brain disorders increase with age, researchers said inContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It’s not fun for folks to admit to their doctor that they’re a couch potato. But such a frank talk could help protect against chronic disease, a new study says. People with the highest levels of physical activity have a lower risk ofContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Think you’re too old to cave to peer pressure when it comes to boozing? That’s probably not so, a new study says. An adult’s network of social connections plays a crucial role in how heavily they tend to drink, researchers reported Jan. 1Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Socially awkward young adults are more prone to regularly binge drink, but they back off their boozing bouts as they become older and more secure. A new study published recently in the journal Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research shows that young adults whoContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The lungs are a tempting place for cancer cells — so much so that more than half of people with advanced cancer elsewhere in their bodies wind up with lung tumors. Researchers now think they know why. Elevated levels of an amino acidContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A Canadian teen’s severe bird flu infection has highlighted growing concerns about the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu, which has seen a steady rise in human cases across the U.S. According to a news release, the 13-year-old, who was hospitalized inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Not sure what’s causing your child’s asthma? A new quick-and-easy nasal swab test for kids can diagnose the specific immune system drivers behind their asthma, potentially opening the door to better treatments, researchers say. The test diagnoses a child’s asthma subtype, also calledContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Considering a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking? New research might provide all the motivation you need: Each cigarette could shorten your life by up to 22 minutes, researchers say. The findings, published Dec. 29, 2024, in the journal Addiction, were based onContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Tree-lined streets and lush public parks appear to provide city schoolkids a brain boost. Chicago students’ test scores suffered when an invasive insect wiped out half the city’s ash trees, researchers reported in the journal Global Environmental Change. “We found that test scoresContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A smartphone app appears to help people battle opioid use disorder (OUD). People with OUD had 35% fewer days of opioid use when they were handed the app alongside medications for opioid use disorder like methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, researchers note in aContinue Reading