TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As an mpox outbreak continues to rage in Africa, the World Health Organization on Monday launched a six-month plan to quell its spread. “The mpox outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring countries can be controlled, and can be stopped,”Continue Reading
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TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A child’s intelligence is not the sole key to academic success, a new British study concludes. Instead, intelligence plus “non-cognitive” factors, such as a determination to excel despite obstacles and an innate love of learning, can push a child to the top ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Good sleep is important for the health of overweight men and women, a new study shows. Heavy-set people who stay awake too late tend to have a higher risk of metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions that increase the risk of heartContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Your heart health before and after a heart attack might be influenced by how loud your neighborhood is, new research suggests. One study found that people under 50 were more prone to heart attack if they lived in a noisy area, while anotherContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with multiple sclerosis appear to have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests. MS patients are far less likely to have elevated blood levels of toxic proteins that form amyloid plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New Medicare rules could make 3.6 million Americans — or even more — eligible for treatment with the pricey weight-loss drug Wegovy, a new study finds. Under the new rules, the government will pay for Wegovy treatment if a person with high BMIContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Children are seeing far fewer ads for junk food during kids’ TV shows, a new study finds. The number of food and drink ads during children’s programs has dropped by more than 95%, according to researchers’ analysis of television Nielsen ratings. This declineContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nearly half of counties in the United States contain at least one “pharmacy desert,” where there’s no retail pharmacy within 10 miles, a new study reports. “As pharmacies close, more and more Americans are left without easy access to medications,” said senior investigatorContinue Reading
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MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Reversing a prior downward trend, searing summers have caused a sharp uptick in the numbers of Americans who die from heat-related causes, new data shows. A look at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deaths data for 1999 through 2023 showed aContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Troubled transgender students are more likely to turn to school staff than their own parents for support, a new study finds. Trans teens feeling depressed and anxious are 74% less likely to seek help from parents than from adults at school, compared toContinue Reading