FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Top vaccine advisers hand-selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to limit the use of a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. By an 8 to 3 vote, with one person abstaining, the Advisory Committee onContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Four Western states are taking a different approach from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines for COVID-19, flu and RSV. California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington — now working together as the West Coast Health Alliance — issued jointContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A person’s risk of pancreatic cancer might be tied to the microbes living in their mouths, a new study says. People have a more than tripled risk of pancreatic cancer if their mouths contain 27 types of bacteria and fungi, including some directlyContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Type 2 diabetes appears to double a person’s risk for life-threatening sepsis, a new study says. Men and people under 60 with diabetes are particularly at risk for sepsis, a condition in which the immune system overreacts to infection, researchers reported this weekContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cutting-edge drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound are all the rage for dropping excess pounds, but weight-loss surgery might have a better impact on people’s health, a new study says. People who had weight-loss surgery lost more weight, lived longer and faced fewer seriousContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An effective weight-loss pill to rival injectable drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound might be on the horizon, clinical trial results show. An experimental GLP-1 pill called orforglipron promoted substantial weight loss without the need for weekly injections, according to final clinical trial resultsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People with fatty liver disease are more likely to die early if they have one of three additional health problems, a new study says. High blood pressure, diabetes and low levels of “good” HDL cholesterol all increase the risk of death for peopleContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Every movement we make, whether walking, speaking or even breathing, depends on the health of our muscles and nerves. For people living with one of the more than 300 rare conditions known as neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), those everyday actions can become extraordinary challenges.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials want to take Orange B — an artificial food dye that hasn’t been used in more than four decades — off the books. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it plans to repeal regulations that have allowedContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Football legend Dan Marino has disclosed that he has been living with a serious liver condition for nearly 20 years. The former Miami Dolphins quarterback said that by making major lifestyle changes, he feels optimistic about his health. Marino, 64, told People magazineContinue Reading