THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors nationwide are issuing urgent warnings about a viral food trend inspired by the hit Netflix movie “KPop Demon Hunters” that is causing serious scalding injuries in children and teens. The trend involves youth imitating a scene from the movie by eating extremelyContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The concerning spread of microplastics — plastic fragments smaller than a grain of rice — has now been found to extend to nearly every drink we consume. Research just published in Science in the Total Environment revealed that every hot and cold beverageContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A genetic risk score can help predict which women will develop invasive breast cancer after abnormal cells have been found in their breast tissue, researchers said. Women who scored high on the genetic blood test were twice as likely to develop breast cancerContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Long-term exposure to a chemical used in metal degreasing and dry cleaning might increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease, a new study says. Seniors living in places with the highest airborne levels of trichloroethylene showed a 10% higher risk for Parkinson’s than thoseContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People with extreme, life-threatening allergic reactions might do as well to use a nasal spray as jab themselves in a thigh with an EpiPen, a new evidence review says. Adrenaline delivered with liquid or powder nasal sprays is as effective, and sometimes evenContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — American taxpayers have foot the bill for billions of dollars spent treating gunshot wounds, a new study says. Treatment for firearm injuries cost U.S. hospitals an estimated $7.7 billion between 2016 and 2021, with the largest share falling on urban hospitals that serveContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Farm workers have a higher risk for kidney disease, mainly due to exposure to high heat and agricultural chemicals, a new small-scale study says. Workers on a grape farm near the Arizona-Sonora border had high levels of arsenic, cadmium and chromium in theirContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Children and teens have a doubled risk of long COVID following their second COVID-19 infection, researchers report. What’s more, long COVID dramatically increases kids’ risk of myocarditis, blood clots, damaged kidneys, abnormal heart beats and other health problems, researchers report in The LancetContinue Reading
Trial data show eyeglass lenses slow myopia progression versus single vision control lensesContinue Reading
The $50 million in grants will examine how genetics and environment interactContinue Reading