TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Race plays a role in whether a child is quickly and accurately diagnosed with asthma, a new study suggests. Outdated and flawed studies previously led to the belief that white children had “naturally higher” lung function compared to other races, researchers said. DiagnosticContinue Reading
Newly appointed health secretary believes processing the comments under the Richardson Waiver puts too heavy a burden on the departmentContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. government has ended funding for some 5,800 global health programs, cutting off critical support for projects that provide vaccines, life-saving medications and emergency health care to millions of people globally. The move came in a wave of emails from the U.S.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer deaths among Black men and women in the U.S. have declined during the past decade in the United States, a new American Cancer Society (ACS) report says. The cancer death rate decreased 49% among Black men and 33% among Black women betweenContinue Reading
Society says that without access to shared federal data, cancer research is compromisedContinue Reading
Direct-to-consumer telehealth company advertisement that aired during the Super Bowl failed to mention side effects of the drugsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A major recall of canned tuna sold in dozens of states has been issued amid concerns that a packaging defect could cause “a potentially fatal form of food poisoning,” the manufacturer said in a statement. California-based Tri-Union Seafoods announced a voluntary recall forContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore access to public health websites that were removed or modified in response to a Trump administration executive order on gender. TheContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It was a bit safer to go into the water last year: Unprovoked shark attacks worldwide fell by about a third in 2024 compared to the year before, new data show. The United States continues to be the most likely country in whichContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Scientists are calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to disclose data about the risks of bird flu to people and pets that was posted briefly online Wednesday and quickly deleted. The data table was the only mention ofContinue Reading