THURSDAY, May 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A ban on flavored vaping products in San Francisco may have increased high school students’ use of conventional cigarettes, according to a new study. In 2018, voters in the city overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure banning the sale of flavored tobacco products. AnContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) – – Teenage girls who use over-the-counter diet pills and laxatives to lose weight run a very high risk of developing eating disorders, researchers say. In a new U.S. study, girls who used diet pills had a 258% greater risk of being diagnosed withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine fully protects children aged 12 to 17, the company announced Tuesday. In a clinical trial that included more than 3,700 young volunteers, there were no cases of symptomatic COVID-19 infection in the two-thirds of participants who received both doses ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, doctors have reported rare but severe cases in infected children of an inflammatory disorder dubbed multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). Now, a small new study out of Britain delivers some reassuring data for parents: Most symptoms of MIS-C (alsoContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Does your teen have the family cat or dog as a nighttime sleep mate? Is that even good for a child’s sleep? In a new study, sleeping with a four-footed friend appears to be fine for pre-teens and teens. For them, sleeping withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Long-term use of anti-seizure medications in babies who had seizures soon after birth may not be necessary and could be harmful, a new study suggests. Newborns who have seizures after birth are at risk of long-term conditions such as developmental delays, cerebral palsyContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A small number of teens and young adults have experienced heart inflammation after receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) said that it hasContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Leslie Maier lost her son, Chris, to meningococcal meningitis more than 15 years ago, but by telling his story she hopes to educate other parents about this rare but potentially deadly illness that a vaccine can prevent. Soon after Chris passed away inContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — New insight into why you don’t remember your earliest years of life is provided in a new study. “A fundamental mystery about human nature is that we remember almost nothing from birth through early childhood, yet we learn so much critical information duringContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A new coronavirus that appears to have jumped from a dog to a child has been discovered from a case three years ago, but it’s unclear what threat it may pose. This new canine-like coronavirus was found in a child in Malaysia inContinue Reading