All posts by LadyLively

  • What Works Best to Help Young Vapers Quit?

    Many young adults can kick their vaping habit with a little coaching and support. New research published Dec. 10 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that nearly half of a group of 18- to 24-year-olds...

    • Posted December 11, 2024
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  • Parents’ Smoking Could Raise Risk for MS in Kids

    For children genetically predisposed to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), exposure to cigarette smoke in the family home could raise that risk even higher, new research shows. “A higher genetic MS risk is associated with an increased vulnerability...

    • Posted December 11, 2024
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  • Are You a ‘Late Gift-Giver’? Study Finds Folks Mostly Don’t Mind

    It can feel like a shameful moment, bracing yourself to hand over a Christmas or birthday gift that’s days or months overdue for one reason or another. But slackers take heart — a new study has found...

    • Posted December 11, 2024
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  • ‘Ableism’ Prevents Many Americans From Getting Mental Health Care

    Ableism, or prejudice against people with disabilities, is an established problem in general healthcare. Now, a small study shows those same issues persist in mental healthcare. Sometimes, the barriers to care are physical, such as inaccessible entrances...

    • Posted December 11, 2024
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  • Removing, Storing Patient’s Blood Before Liver Surgery Helps Avoid Transfusions

    Canadian Rowan Ladd scratched her head when doctors said they might bank a blood donation from her at the start of her 2022 liver surgery, but she figured it couldn’t hurt. “You’re told before surgery that the...

    • Posted December 11, 2024
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  • Task Force Supports Women Over 30 Collecting Samples for Cervical Cancer Screening

    In guidelines that may encourage more women to get screened for cervical cancer, a leading health task force has backed giving women over 30 the option to collect their own vaginal samples for testing. Instead of needing...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • More Women Are Being Diagnosed With Breast Cancer at Later Stages

    More breast cancers are being detected later in women, giving the tumors a chance to spread and become life-threatening, a new study finds. This increase in late-stage breast cancer affects women at all ages and ethnicities, according...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Opioid Abuse Can Change the Brain

    “This is your brain on drugs,” the old anti-drug admonition says, and now a new study has found there’s something to that chestnut. Opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in specific regions of their brains, MRI...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Ultra-processed Foods May Raise Colon Cancer Risk

    Fatty, salty and sugary ultra-processed foods could be increasing people’s risk of colon cancer by spurring chronic inflammation in the gut. In a new study, colon tumors taken from people with poor diets had higher levels of...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Wildfire Smoke Is Choking America’s Cities — Is Yours on the List?

    Heavy smoke from wildfires more frequently chokes the skies over the Western United States, but cities farther to the east are no longer being spared, new research shows. Canada’s unusually intense 2023 wildfire season smothered American cities...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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