MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Findings from a study in mice suggest that using a common artificial sweetener, sucralose, could hamper certain immunotherapy treatments in cancer patients. However, for folks reluctant to give up the ubiquitous sweetener, the same team of scientists may have found a way aroundContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Long after floodwaters recede, the impact of flooding on the health of older adults is profound, new research shows. Rates of hospitalizations for a range of conditions affecting the skin and nervous system, as well as poisonings, injuries or mental health woes were allContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — California’s emergency departments will be more clogged than ever as climate change pushes daily temperatures higher, a study finds. But there is one silver lining to the new research, however: Thousands of fewer deaths in California from extreme cold. Nevertheless, high temperatures willContinue Reading
SUNDAY, August 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A scientific expedition into a region of the Pacific Ocean named for Hades, Greek god of the underworld, has uncovered an other-worldly ecosystem 30,000 feet deep. “It’s a totally new thing that has not been seen before,” said Dominic Papineau, an exobiologist atContinue Reading
SATURDAY, August 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — To fend off predators, millipedes release defensive compounds that could one day play a part in treating pain and neurological diseases. “These compounds are quite complex, so they’re going to take some time to synthesize in the lab,” said chemist Emily Meyers, whoseContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — President Donald Trump has introduced a new effort to help Americans more easily share their health records with doctors, using new technology and artificial intelligence (AI) tools. “Today the dream of easily transportable, electronic medical records finally becomes a reality,” Trump said duringContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, Florida officials confirmed Thursday. The 71-year-old entertainer, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died last week in Clearwater, Florida. The official cause of death was acute myocardial infarction, the medical term forContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Singer Justin Timberlake has Lyme disease, a condition he says caused nerve pain, fatigue and other symptoms during his recent tour. In a post on Instagram Thursday, the 44-year-old pop star said the tick-borne illness left him feeling “relentlessly debilitated, both mentally andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hearing loss prevents many young adults from achieving their potential in schooling and careers, new research suggests. That’s especially true when impaired hearing hits young Black Americans or Hispanic Americans, the study found. “Hearing problems may make it harder for people to communicateContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Men diagnosed with what are known as Grade Group one (GG1) prostate tumors are often told they don’t require treatment, only “watchful waiting,” because GG1 cancers are at low risk of spreading. There’s even been talk among experts of not calling GG1 tumorsContinue Reading