MONDAY, Jan. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Stress appears to increase a person’s chances of developing metabolic syndrome, a cluster of unhealthy factors that add up to an increased risk for serious problems, a new study finds. Inflammation driven by a person’s stress levels can make them more likely toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Trendy bottled water marketed as “alkaline water” isn’t likely to prevent kidney stones in a person plagued by them, a new study reports. These products tend to have contain less alkali than is needed to alter urine pH level enough to keep stonesContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Jan. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In the middle of winter when sunshine can be hard to come by, it’s tough to get enough vitamin D, but one expert has some advice. “Vitamin D is well known to support bone health, but it also plays a role in theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The Quaker Oats Co has widened a recall of granola bars and cereals that was first announced in December, adding more products that may potentially be contaminated with salmonella. The products were sold in all U.S. states and territories, with a full listContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — While cancer death rates have fallen among Americans generally over the past two decades, a new study finds Black Americans are still more likely than whites to die from the disease. There has been some improvement in closing the gap — in 2000,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A universal coronavirus vaccine could have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars if one had been available prior to the pandemic, a new study argues. Further, a universal vaccine — one that targets parts of the virus common to all coronavirusesContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic, which have become a wildly popular way to lose weight or battle diabetes, show no link to suicidal thoughts or actions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. “Our preliminary evaluation has not found evidence that useContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Childhood cancer survivors are at increased risk of developing heart failure later in life, due to the chemotherapy that was used to save their lives. But an already approved drug might help reduce that risk, according to a new report published Jan. 9Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Imagine easing a fear of heights by getting over a phobia of spiders. That might sound odd, but it works, researchers report. Folks who use exposure therapy to overcome one phobia can find themselves less afraid of other things, according to the resultsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who’ve survived breast cancer may want to up their dietary intake of soy, nuts, beans and whole grains, a new analysis finds. A higher intake of soy compounds called isoflavones was especially tied to better odds that cancer would not return, accordingContinue Reading