FRIDAY, May 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Don’t drink and drive is a message the public has largely accepted. Now how about don’t drink and scoot? A quarter of people injured in electric scooter accidents were drunk or high when their mishap occurred, researchers recently reported in the journal TheContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Men are more likely than women to die from high blood pressure, diabetes and HIV/AIDS, after shrugging off medical care for the conditions, a new study says. These differences crop up even though men and women are as likely to develop either highContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Marty Makary had just finished his last surgery at Johns Hopkins when he stepped into one of the most powerful roles in American public health. Now, as the new commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), he’s wasting no timeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Flourishing is more than just being happy, and a new global study finds some countries are doing better than others when it comes to overall well-being. Take it from researchers at Baylor and Harvard universities, who unveiled a study Wednesday that included moreContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A well-known U.S. science journal focused on environmental health has stopped accepting new studies, raising alarms among researchers who rely on it heavily. Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a journal funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that it would pause newContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Florida state lawmakers have approved a bill to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water, a move that public health experts say could harm dental health across the state. The bill now heads to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for approval. DeSantisContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A class of drugs used to treat epilepsy, nerve pain and anxiety do not appear to increase a person’s risk of self-harm, a major new study says. Gabapentinoids – which include gabapentin and pregabalin – have been associated with an increased risk ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The cutting-edge weight-loss drug Ozempic/Wegovy can stop and even reverse fatty liver disease, a new clinical trial has found. Nearly twice as many people taking semaglutide stopped their fatty liver disease without further scarring of the organ — 63%, compared with 34% ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — High school athletes with ADHD take longer to recover from a sport-related concussion, a new study says. Those with a concussion took about 16% longer to return to the classroom and 17% longer to return to sports, compared to athletes without ADHD, researchersContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made headlines with dire warnings that declining birth rates are an “existential crisis” for humanity. The threat might be even more dire than Musk (the father of at least 14) says, a new study argues. TheContinue Reading