TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Children are seeing far fewer ads for junk food during kids’ TV shows, a new study finds. The number of food and drink ads during children’s programs has dropped by more than 95%, according to researchers’ analysis of television Nielsen ratings. This declineContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nearly half of counties in the United States contain at least one “pharmacy desert,” where there’s no retail pharmacy within 10 miles, a new study reports. “As pharmacies close, more and more Americans are left without easy access to medications,” said senior investigatorContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As a summer surge in COVID cases begins to ebb and Americans brace themselves for yet another wave of infections this winter, more free COVID tests will soon be available to all, federal health officials announced Friday. Starting in late September, every U.S.Continue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Body heat is a powerful means by which mosquitos find human beings to bite, a new study shows. Mosquitos were twice as drawn to a target in a laboratory if the source emitted heat roughly the temperature of human skin as well asContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — COVID cases have surged this summer, but a new study suggests that following the Mediterranean diet might spare you from infection. In a review published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, Indonesian researchers discovered that the healthy eating regimen, which centers on fruits, vegetables, wholeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids and teens are vulnerable to Long COVID just as adults are, with a set of distinct symptoms showing long-term health effects, a new study shows. Ten symptoms in school-age children and 8 in teenagers indicate the likely presence of long COVID, accordingContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The first mpox vaccine doses from the United States are set to arrive next week in the Congo, the epicenter of an ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa. The doses come not a moment too soon: Just last week, the World Health Organization declaredContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A review of U.S. data from 2012 through 2024 finds that when kids get free school meals, there’s a potential for a slight increase in attendance and a lowering of child obesity rates. Even kids from higher-income households benefited, as many took advantageContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An insect-borne virus that can cause birth defects and deaths has prompted warnings from the United States for travelers headed to locales in South America and the Caribbean. Oropouche virus has caused two deaths and five cases of fetal death or birth defectsContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Across rural America, the increased presence of loaded guns in homes and vehicles could lead to a spike in gun injuries and homicides at the start of every deer hunting season, a new study warns. In fact, in the U.S. rural counties coveredContinue Reading