MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Popular freeze-dried fruit snacks sold at Sam’s Club are being recalled because of possible listeria contamination. Doehler Dry Ingredient Solutions, LLC is recalling some 15-count boxes of “Member’s Mark Freeze Dried Fruit Variety Pack” after internal testing found the presence of Listeria monocytogenes,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Presidential Fitness Test is returning to U.S. schools after more than a decade. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to bring back the program, which aims to improve physical fitness among students. The test was launched in 1956 and endedContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An Ohio couple has welcomed a healthy baby boy from an embryo frozen for more than three decades, setting what doctors believe is a new world record. Lindsey and Tim Pierce’s son was born last Saturday after developing from an embryo frozen inContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a small new study, a handheld saliva-sampling device successfully detected breast cancer 100% of the time, researchers said. The study only involved 29 saliva samples, and more research is needed. However, the results remain “very exciting because this device could improve accessContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People with multiple sclerosis (MS) begin experiencing new health issues up to 15 years before the classic signs of the illness appear, Canadian research shows. “MS can be difficult to recognize as many of the earliest signs — like fatigue, headache, pain andContinue Reading
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