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  New Upright Scanner Tracks Brain Function While You Walk

  A wearable brain scanner could improve research into Parkinson’s disease, dementia and other debilitating disorders, new research shows. The brain scanner — called the Ambulatory Motion-enabling PET (AMPET) — fits on a person’s head much like a...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  How Likely Is It That Autism Recurs in One Family?

  There’s a good chance that if one child in a family has autism, another will also develop the disorder, a new study suggests. Children are seven times more likely to be diagnosed with autism if an older...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  Certain Pollens Worse for Triggering Asthma Attacks

  Pollen is a known trigger for seasonal allergies and asthma, but new research suggests that certain plant species release pollen that are especially tough on asthmatics. Species-specific pollen alerts could help keep people with asthma safe, the...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  U.S. Deaths Dropped 6% Last Year, as COVID Fell From 3rd to 10th Leading Killer

  Deaths among Americans dropped by a significant 6.1% between 2022 and 2023, a new government tally finds. Much of this was due to COVID-19’s ebbing effect on deaths. During the pandemic, over a million Americans lost their...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  Another Listeria Death, Dozens of Hospitalizations in Outbreak Tied to Boar’s Head Deli Meats

  The death toll from listeria linked to tainted Boar’s Head deli meats has risen to three, with nine more cases of the bacterial illness reported in the outbreak, an update issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  Heavy Marijuana Use More Than Triples Odds for Head & Neck Cancers

  People who use marijuana at high levels are putting themselves at more than three times the risk for head and neck cancers, new research warns. The study is perhaps the most rigorous ever conducted on the issue,...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  Text Messaging Can Help Teens Kick the Vaping Habit

  An interactive text-message support program can help teenagers quit vaping, a groundbreaking new clinical trial finds. Teens who subscribed to the anonymous program, called This Is Quitting, were 35% more likely to report not vaping nicotine by...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  New Strain of Mpox Spreading in Africa Has CDC Concerned

  U.S. doctors should be on the lookout for a more severe strain of mpox that is spreading widely in parts of Africa, federal health officials warned Wednesday. The alert, issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  Many Doctors Underestimate the Pain of IUD Insertion for Women. The CDC Wants to Change That

  Plenty of women know that having an IUD inserted in their uterus can be an excruciating experience, but new government guidance issued Thursday may soon make the experience less painful for many. For the first time, updated...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  More Evidence That an Artificial Sweetener Poses Heart Risk

  There’s more evidence to suggest that the common artificial sweetener erythritol might pose dangers to consumers’ hearts. The new study, involving 20 healthy adult volunteers, found that at doses commonly found in an erythritol-sweetened soda or muffin,...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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