WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic may have led to a significant jump in the number of young American adults seeking help for mental health woes, new data shows. Between 2019 and 2021, the percentage of American adults overall who said they’d soughtContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Stories about their difficult birth or their parents’ fertility challenges can give adult children a more grateful, upbeat attitude towards their lives, British researchers suggest. They studied the messages as well as how they were delivered, interviewing people about the stories they hadContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — High levels of air pollution during the first six months of life could affect the colonies of bacteria in babies’ guts, increasing their risk for allergies, obesity, diabetes and issues with brain development, according to new research. Researchers said their new study isContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 6, 2022 (HealthDay Now) — For Mary Christ, the idea that depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain has always felt true to her personal experience. A former educator, Christ, 57, has taken antidepressants for much of her adult life. She experienced bouts of anxiety and panicContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Wes Mika started out on drums, but in his heart he was a tambourine man. “He got fascinated by the little silver discs on the tambourine,” said his wife, Susan Mika. “Sometimes he would hit the tambourine with the little mallets of theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A new report reveals a hidden secret about the nation’s beautiful rural roads: They’re too often fatal for motorists. Nearly half of all U.S. crashes happen on rural roads, despite only 19% of Americans living in those areas. The report, conducted by theContinue Reading
SUNDAY, Sept. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you’re planning to have oral surgery, be prepared, not scared, an expert suggests — and stay off YouTube. “I tell all of my patients, ‘The more you know, the better it’s going to be.’ As health professionals, we’re not trying to scareContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Men with Down syndrome may think and remember better when treated with a brain hormone normally associated with fertility, a new small-scale study suggests. Rhythmic drip doses of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) improved thinking skills in nearly all of a small group of adultContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Fertility preservation procedures for women with breast cancer won’t raise the risk of their cancer returning later, a new Swedish study shows. Women who had eggs or embryos frozen before going through chemotherapy did not have any increased risk of cancer recurrence orContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second straight year, government health officials reported Wednesday. The decline from 77 years in 2020 to 76.1 years in 2021 puts U.S. life expectancy at the lowest level since 1996, according to the reportContinue Reading