• Navigating Your Midlife Crisis: Embracing New Possibilities
• City Raccoons Showing Signs of Domestication
• Mapping the Exposome: Science Broadens Focus to Environmental Disease Triggers
• One Week Less on Social Media Linked to Better Mental Health
• Your Brain Changes in Stages as You Age, Study Finds
• Some Suicide Victims Show No Typical Warning Signs, Study Finds
• ByHeart Formula Faces Lawsuits After Babies Sickened With Botulism
• Switch to Vegan Diet Could Cut Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Half
• Regular Bedtime Does Wonders for Blood Pressure
• Dining Alone Could Mean Worse Nutrition for Seniors

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  Zepbound Outperforms Wegovy in Head-to-Head Weight Loss Study

  A new study has found that people taking Eli Lilly’s obesity drug Zepbound lost almost 50% more weight than those using Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. The study — published May 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine...

  • Posted May 12, 2025
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  Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Life-Saving Baby Heart Device

  A Cornell University project to save babies born with serious heart defects has lost key funding just days after it was approved.  The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded $6.7 million on March 30 to support production...

  • Posted May 12, 2025
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  Pregnancy Health Problems Increase Kids’ Blood Pressure

  Children have an increased risk of high blood pressure if their moms suffered from health problems during pregnancy, a new study says. Children had higher blood pressure if their moms had obesity, gestational diabetes or high blood...

  • Posted May 12, 2025
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  U.S. Illicit Opioid Use Could Be 20 Times Higher Than Previously Estimated

  More Americans use illicit opioids like fentanyl than previously estimated, undercutting perceived progress in confronting the U.S. opioid crisis, a new study says. More than 1 in 10 American adults (11%) reported illicit opioid use within the...

  • Posted May 12, 2025
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  FDA Approves At-Home Cervical Cancer Test for Women Ages 25 to 65

  Women now have a new way to check their risk for cervical cancer — from the comfort of their own home. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Teal Wand, an at-home test that...

  • Posted May 12, 2025
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  Birth Control Pill Increases Risk Of Asthma Attacks In Young Women

  Young women taking the Pill might have an increased risk of asthma attacks, a new study says. Taking the progesterone-only form of the contraceptive pill can increase asthma attacks among women under 35, researchers reported May 7...

  • Posted May 12, 2025
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  Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Cost Kids Access To Asthma Inhalers, Other Chronic Disease Meds

  Children and young adults formerly covered by Medicaid are losing access to medications needed to control conditions like depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, asthma and epilepsy, a new study says. Young people need to take these meds regularly to...

  • Posted May 12, 2025
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  Double Lung Transplant Saves Mother Of Twins

  The timing of Cornelia Tischmacher’s pneumonia couldn’t have been worse — eight months after the Berlin mom gave birth to twins. But the pneumonia just wouldn’t go away, so Tischmacher went to a doctor in January 2018....

  • Posted May 12, 2025
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  Sweet Tooth Explained: Researchers Reveal How We Taste Sugar

  Why does sugar taste so good — and why do we want it so badly? Scientists may finally have the answer.  For the first time, researchers have figured out the structure of the sweet receptor — the...

  • Posted May 11, 2025
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  Topical Antibiotic May One Day Treat Infected Ears

  Any parent who has been jolted awake by the squeals of a toddler with an ear infection knows that relief won’t be swift — or sure. Kids often build resistance to the usual days-long antibiotic treatment regimen...

  • Posted May 10, 2025
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