TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Drugs that battle HIV and hepatitis B might be able to help people avoid Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says. Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are used to prevent HIV and hepatitis B from replicating and spreading inside a person’s body. Now, aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A first-of-its-kind surgery has gone through a young woman’s eye socket to remove a cancerous tumor wrapped around her spine. Surgeons threaded a thin lighted tube called an endoscope down through the 19-year-old woman’s eye socket to remove a rare, slow-growing bone tumorContinue Reading
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MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Most parents know the soothing power of a lullaby like “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” But a new study suggests that singing to babies and even dancing may not be natural behaviors for everyone. The study, published recently in the journal Current Biology, lookedContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new study has found that people taking Eli Lilly’s obesity drug Zepbound lost almost 50% more weight than those using Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. The study — published May 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine — followed 751 people across theContinue Reading
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MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A Cornell University project to save babies born with serious heart defects has lost key funding just days after it was approved. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded $6.7 million on March 30 to support production and development of PediaFlow, a smallContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More Americans use illicit opioids like fentanyl than previously estimated, undercutting perceived progress in confronting the U.S. opioid crisis, a new study says. More than 1 in 10 American adults (11%) reported illicit opioid use within the past 12 months, researchers reported MayContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Children and young adults formerly covered by Medicaid are losing access to medications needed to control conditions like depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, asthma and epilepsy, a new study says. Young people need to take these meds regularly to get the best results, as interruptionsContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The timing of Cornelia Tischmacher’s pneumonia couldn’t have been worse — eight months after the Berlin mom gave birth to twins. But the pneumonia just wouldn’t go away, so Tischmacher went to a doctor in January 2018. Tests revealed that the then-40-year-old hadContinue Reading
SUNDAY, May 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Why does sugar taste so good — and why do we want it so badly? Scientists may finally have the answer. For the first time, researchers have figured out the structure of the sweet receptor — the tiny part of your tongue thatContinue Reading