WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials are cracking down on telehealth companies’ promotion of unapproved versions of prescription drugs, including popular weight loss medications. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released more than 100 warning letters aimed at both drugmakers and online healthContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — LGBTQ+ teenagers in the United States might be losing sleep due to violence, bullying and rejection, a recent study says. Gender and sexual minority teens are more likely to have trouble falling asleep at night, researchers reported in June in the Journal ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Over-the-counter sales have tanked for the overdose reversal drug naloxone, likely due to its high price, a new study says. Naloxone (Narcan) is a nasal spray that rapidly reverses an overdose by blocking opioid receptors in the body. It has been a keyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A triple-sized weekly dose of Ozempic works better to help people with obesity shed excess pounds without significant side effects, new clinical trial results show. Obese folks lost more weight taking 7.2 mg of semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) a week than those taking either theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Most Americans would be healthier if the nation dropped daylight saving time, a major new study says. Switching to permanent standard time would prevent about 300,000 cases of stroke per year and result in 2.6 million fewer people with obesity, researchers estimate inContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Half of people who start taking the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Ozempic drop it within a year, a new study says. About 52% of people in Denmark prescribed semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) for weight loss stopped taking it after one year, researchers reported Saturday atContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Sept. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — On World Sepsis Day, health experts remind Americans that sepsis strikes 1.7 million people in the U.S. each year and causes more than 350,000 deaths. Yet despite those staggering numbers, many Americans don’t know what sepsis is or how to recognize it beforeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Programs that recruit parents to help fight early childhood obesity aren’t doing much good at all, a new evidence review says. There’s no evidence that these programs have any impact on the body mass index (BMI) of toddlers, researchers reported in The Lancet.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Living in a food desert can be potentially deadly to people with irregular heart beats, a new study says. Patients with atrial fibrillation have a doubled risk for stroke and nearly quadrupled risk of early death if they live in a neighborhood withoutContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Deep brain stimulation has shown promise in treating conditions ranging from epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease to cluster headaches, depression and schizophrenia. Unfortunately, this approach requires brain surgery, with doctors drilling into the patient’s skull to implant tiny devices that deliver mild electrical pulses.Continue Reading