SATURDAY, June 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The first two years of a baby’s life are critical for brain development, and how the brain grows during that time may help predict future learning, behavior and health. That’s according to experts at Cedars-Sinai, who are working to better understand how brainContinue Reading
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FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A popular crisis support line for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults is shutting down July 17, federal officials confirmed this week. The “Press 3” option on the 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, which offers specialized support for LGBTQ+ callers, will no longerContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Premade chicken fettuccine Alfredo meals sold at Walmart and Kroger have been recalled amid a listeria outbreak that sickened 17 people and led to three deaths and one pregnancy loss. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new shot to prevent HIV infection has just been approved — and it only needs to be taken twice a year. On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lenacapavir, a long-acting injection that was shown to be nearly 100%Continue Reading
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Caring for your emotional health might also help keep your memory sharp, a new study says. People with higher levels of well-being have a reduced risk of memory loss in middle age, according to a new study published June 19 in the journalContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A fecal transplant performs as well as antibiotics in treating people with a bacterial infection that can cause life-threatening diarrhea, a new study says. People who received a single fecal transplant via enema recovered slightly better from a Clostridioides difficile infection than those whoContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Celiac disease patients currently must make themselves sicker before they’re able to seek treatment. The tests now used to diagnose celiac disease require patients to eat gluten, the protein that provokes an autoimmune reaction, then chart their response. But a new blood testContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Harried parents aren’t wrong to suspect something’s changed in what is expected of them when it comes to their children’s sports activities, a new study says. Modern-day parents are spending more time, money and resources on their kids’ sports activities than moms andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — About 7.6 million Americans could lose their health insurance if the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed by the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a new study says. As a result, more than 16,600 people a year will die needlessly, as medicalContinue Reading