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WEDNESDAY, July 17, 29024 (HealthDay News) — In a joint effort to curb the illegal sales of food products containing delta-8 THC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday they have warned five companies to stop marketing such products. Because the packaging for theseContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Just two years after the launch of the nation’s three-digit crisis hotline, more than 10 million calls, texts and chat messages have been fielded by counselors, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday. Introduced in July 2022 to simplify emergency calls and help counter aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s good news and bad for stroke survival in the United States: New research shows that Americans are now more likely to survive long-term, but that’s more true for whites than for Black Americans. At least for a sample of people living inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The stress of living in a poor neighborhood might contribute to higher rates of aggressive prostate cancer in Black men, a new study warns. Black men are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than white men, and more likelyContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Seventeen women in nine states have fallen ill after getting fake Botox shots, with 13 of them landing in the hospital and one requiring a ventilator, a new report warns. In the report, published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel has left children and parents with significant psychological scars, a new study shows. But families with a child who has autism have been especially hard hit, according to researchers from the Autism Center at Hebrew UniversityContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Black patients with Huntington’s disease receive their diagnoses an average of one year later than white people with the incurable genetic disorder, a new study shows. Early diagnosis is essential to help patients get proper care and prepare for the effects of theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Financial stress persists even though rising inflation rates have eased, and the group feeling the pinch most acutely is in its peak earning years, a new poll shows. “Our biggest surprise from this poll is that the age group most likely to beContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nearly 60 illnesses, including 30 hospitalizations, have now been linked to eating Diamond Shruumz edibles, U.S. health officials reported. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted in an update issued Tuesday that of the people who got sick after eating theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Colorado health officials on Tuesday confirmed a case of human plague in that state. The infection — which occurred in Pueblo County, in the southern part of the state — was first reported Friday based on preliminary test results, while the source of the infectionContinue Reading