• Heat-Related Deaths Keep Rising for Americans

    Reversing a prior downward trend, searing summers have caused a sharp uptick in the numbers of Americans who die from heat-related causes, new data shows. A look at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deaths data...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • Trans Kids More Often Turn to Teachers Than Parents for Help

    Troubled transgender students are more likely to turn to school staff than their own parents for support, a new study finds. Trans teens feeling depressed and anxious are 74% less likely to seek help from parents than...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • Dr. Anthony Fauci Recovering at Home After Being Hospitalized With West Nile Virus

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped millions of Americans navigate the health challenges of the pandemic, is recovering at home after being hospitalized for a West Nile infection. Fauci should make a full recovery, a spokesperson told the...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • U.S. Will Offer Free COVID Tests By Mail by Late September

    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....

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • Science Probes Where Love Lives in the Brain

    Researchers now have a better idea where love resides in the human brain — and which types of love are the most powerful. MRI scans show that love mainly resides in areas of the brain associated with...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • Americans Are Moving Away From Polluted Areas — If They Can Afford To

    Americans of means are fleeing heavily polluted places in the United States for cleaner locales, a new study has found. Pollution levels are a factor in families’ decision to move within the United States, but only richer...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • Most Americans Unsure How to Help Someone in Opioid Overdose

    The U.S. opioid epidemic has caused a startling number of overdose deaths, but a new survey shows that most Americans still have no idea how to help an OD victim. More than 3 in 4 people (77%)...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • An Alzheimer’s Drug May Also Slow Lewy Body Dementia

    A type of drug used to treat Alzheimer’s disease appears to slow the progression of Lewy body dementia, the brain disease that afflicted comedian Robin Williams prior to his suicide. Cholinesterase inhibitors prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine,...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • New Approach Helps More People With Rectal Cancers Avoid Surgery

    Giving chemo and radiation therapies before a surgery for rectal cancer can help eliminate the need for removal of the rectum altogether, a new Swedish study finds. “If the tumor disappears completely during treatment, surgery is not...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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  • Mosquitos Have Another Way to Find You: Body Heat

    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...

    • Posted August 26, 2024
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