MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An overwhelming majority of teens and young adults are worried about how climate change will affect their future, a new survey has found. About 85% of 16- to 25-year-olds are worried about the impact of climate change on people and the planet, accordingContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids with good physical fitness are more likely to grow into teens with better mental health and brain function, a new study has found. Children who performed better at shuttle sprints scored better on cognitive tests as teenagers, researchers found. In addition, betterContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — PFAS “forever chemicals” can be found in drinking water around the world, whether it comes from a tap or a bottle, a new study warns. Ten specific PFAS chemicals were found in samples of bottled and tap water sourced from 15 countries aroundContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Depression can make it tougher for athletes to recover from a concussion, and vice versa, a new study finds. Student athletes who have both concussion and depression have significantly worse symptoms for both conditions, researchers reported recently in the journal Brain Research. What’sContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or other dementia often spurs a person to move from their home, new research shows. “One possible explanation is that individuals with dementia and their caregivers may choose to move closer to family or informal caregivers, either withContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Doctors might be overprescribing sedatives to stroke survivors, a new study warns. About 5% of people are prescribed a benzodiazepine following a stroke, to help calm anxiety and improve sleep, researchers found. Benzodiazepine meds include Valium, Ativan and Xanax. But these prescriptions oftenContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A young Israeli researcher who lost a sibling in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians said the tragedy has spurred her to study the unique aspects of grief at the sudden loss of a brother or sister. The research byContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Got yourself a standing desk because you know sitting is unhealthy? It might be the wrong move, new research suggests. The study of over 83,000 British adults who wore special movement monitors on their wrists found no benefit to exchanging sitting for standing,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Accident victims tend to flood emergency rooms on days with heavy air pollution, a new study shows. The number of patients treated at ERs increase by 10% to 15% on days with increased particle pollution in the air, researchers found. That increase isContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As temperatures soar in some of America’s hottest spots, death rates among local homeless people rise as well, new research shows. Data from 2015 through 2022 finds a big bump in deaths among unhoused people in Clark County in Nevada (which includes LasContinue Reading