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01 Apr
Intermittent Fasting Leads to Greater Weight Loss Than Calorie Counting, New Study Finds
Overweight and obese adults who followed a 4:3 intermittent fasting plan dropped more pounds in one year than those who counted calories.
31 Mar
Vaccine Hesitancy Is on the Rise. Who Do Americans Trust to Help Them Make Important Vaccine Decisions? A New HealthDay/Harris Poll
F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, of the Yale School of Medicine talks with Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, of the Baylor School of Medicine about the rise in vaccine refusal and the backlash against scientists.
28 Mar
Common Sugar Substitute May Actually Increase Your Appetite
A new study finds sucralose, the primary sweetener in Splenda, changes brain activity related to hunger. Researchers say the results could be stronger cravings.
More Americans Can't Afford Health Care, Prescriptions
The inability to pay for health care has reached a new high in the United States, a new study says.
More than one-third of Americans — an estimated 91 million people — say they couldn't afford to access quality health care if they needed it today, according to the latest West Health-Gallup Healthcare Affordability Index.
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- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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Swallowing Disorder Not Widely Known, Understood By Public
Insomnia and vertigo are health conditions so well-known that movies have been named after them.
But only a quarter of Americans know about a condition that occurs even more often than vertigo or insomnia, called dysphagia, a new study says.
Dysphagia is a condition in which people have trouble swallowing, due to nerve, muscle or str...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 2, 2025
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Drug Overdose Deaths Rising Faster in Black Americans, Study Finds
Black Americans have been dying from drug overdoses (OD) at higher rates than white Americans, a new study says.
Both Black men and women are at greater risk of a fatal OD compared to white people, researchers reported April 1 in JAMA Network Open.
The OD death rate for Black men surpassed the rate for white men in 2016, and...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 2, 2025
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Eye Exam Can Assess Risk Of Delirium Following Surgery
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul.
The eyes also might help detect seniors at risk for a common syndrome in which they emerge from surgery in a state of delirium, new research suggests.
Seniors who have thicker retinas are about 60% more likely to develop post-surgical delirium, researchers reported April 1 in the journal...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 2, 2025
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Low 'Bad' Cholesterol Might Protect Against Dementia, Alzheimer's
Lower levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol could mean a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says.
People with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels lower than 70 mg/dl had a 26% lower risk of dementia and 28% lower risk of Alzheimer’s, compared to people with LDL levels above 130 mg/dl,...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 2, 2025
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Experts Concerned as NIH Axes Critical Vaccine Study Funds
Hundreds of U.S. research projects aimed at boosting vaccine confidence have been shut down -- just as preventable diseases like measles and flu are on the rise.
Since Jan. 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has canceled more than 1,600 research grants.
Around 300 of those were for vaccine-related projec...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- April 1, 2025
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