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Adolescents and excessive alcohol consumption
Teens Who Become Heavy Drinkers May Outgrow The Dangerous Habit.
Undercover FDA Investigation Finds Illegal Steroid Creams Being Sold Over The Counter
Investigators recommend checking labels of steroid products purchased at foreign import stores.
Why Your Waist Circumference Is Important To Your Heart Health
Belly fat ups the risk of repeat heart attacks.
Healthy Living Helps Keep the Flu at Bay
- Steven Reinberg
- January 24, 2020
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This flu season arrived early and hit children hard, but experts say you can dodge the flu by boosting your immune system.
How? By living a healthy lifestyle and getting sufficient sleep, according to experts from Purdue University's School of Nursing, in West Lafaye...
Psychedelics May Boost Mood Even After Their High Wears Off
- Steven Reinberg
- January 24, 2020
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Psychedelic drugs like LSD and psilocybin -- also known as "magic mushrooms" -- can elevate mood and make one feel close to others, and those feelings may last after the high is gone, new research shows.
The findings, from more than 1,200 art and music festival-goer...
Even Female Bosses Face Sexual Harrassment: Study
- Robert Preidt
- January 24, 2020
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When most people think of sexual harassment of females on the job, they assume it's happening to lower-level staffers. But surprisingly, women supervisors actually encounter more of it than other female workers, a new study finds.
Researchers examined workplace sexua...
Chicago Woman Is 2nd U.S. Case of Wuhan Virus
- Dennis Thompson
- January 24, 2020
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A Chicago woman in her 60s has been identified as the second U.S. patient to be diagnosed with a new Chinese coronavirus, health officials announced Friday.
The woman visited China in late December and returned to Chicago from Wuhan on Jan. 13, days before the CDC st...
First Clinical Studies Find Wuhan Virus Closely Resembles SARS
- E.J. Mundell
- January 24, 2020
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The new coronavirus rapidly spreading in China and nearby countries seems to trigger symptoms similar to those seen in the severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (SARS) coronavirus outbreak in 2003, two new studies show.
Published Jan. 24 in The Lancet jou...
Making the Mummy Speak -- Or at Least Make a Sound
- E.J. Mundell
- January 24, 2020
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Nesyamun, an Egyptian priest who chanted hymns at the grand temple of Karnak in Thebes 3,000 years ago, has been allowed to speak once more.
Well, maybe not speak in full sentences: A British team has re-created the mummified Nesyamun's throat using 3-D technology, a...
Low-Dose Aspirin Might Help Prevent Preterm Births
- Amy Norton
- January 24, 2020
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A daily baby aspirin helped first-time mothers lower their chances of delivering too soon in a new clinical trial, though it's not clear the practice should become routine everywhere.
The trial, which was run in six lower-income countries, found that giving first-ti...
Faulty Immune System May Lead to Lung Cancer
- Steven Reinberg
- January 24, 2020
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An immune system that's not functioning normally may lead to lung cancer in patients who don't smoke, a new study suggests.
"A strong immune system helps to keep inflammation under control and chronic inflammation is known to promote cancer," said co-author Rayjean ...
Many of America's Most Critical Workers Are Short on Their Zzzs
- Robert Preidt
- January 24, 2020
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More than one-third of working Americans don't get enough sleep, and the problem is greatest among the police, the military, health care workers and truckers, researchers report.
Their analysis of data from more than 150,000 employed adults between 2010 and 2018 als...
A Flu Shot May Spare Your Young Child a Hospital Visit
- Robert Preidt
- January 24, 2020
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This flu season is hitting children particularly hard, but new research shows that a flu shot is still well worth it for these youngest patients.
Getting vaccinated halved the risk of hospitalization for flu-related complications among young kids, scientists found.
What You Need to Know Now About the Wuhan Virus
- Dennis Thompson
- January 24, 2020
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As China scrambles to contain an outbreak of a new coronavirus spreading rapidly within its own borders and to other countries, U.S. infectious disease experts tackled questions about the emerging virus.
What is the novel coronavirus circulating in China?
...
How Obamacare Helped Some Southern States
- Robert Preidt
- January 23, 2020
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The physical and mental health of poor people is less likely to be at risk in Southern U.S. states that expanded their Medicaid programs under Obamacare, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 15,500 low-income adults in 12 Southern states and fo...
Prescription-Strength Steroid Creams Sold Over-the-Counter Can Be Dangerous
- Elizabeth Heubeck
- January 23, 2020
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Rubbing cream into your skin to calm an itchy rash may seem harmless, but not all topical anti-itch formulas are created equal.
"People don't understand the potential dangers of prescription-strength steroid creams," said Dr. Lawrence Green, clinical professor of der...
Only 1 in 4 Older Cardiac Patients Get Rehab Therapy
- Steven Reinberg
- January 23, 2020
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Cardiac rehabilitation is known to help people recover after a heart attack or heart surgery, but a new study shows only one-quarter of eligible Medicare patients actually use it.
Which patients are most likely to pass on rehab? Women, those aged 85 and older, blacks...
More Lasting Damage From Gun Violence Than Car Accidents
- Robert Preidt
- January 23, 2020
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Gun violence appears to deliver more long-term damage to survivors than car crashes do.
"Our study shows that injury, and especially firearm injury, casts a long shadow over the lives of those who survive," said study author Dr. Juan Herrera-Escobar. He is research d...
Blacks, Hispanics More Likely to Have Better Outcome After 'Bleeding' Stroke
- Steven Reinberg
- January 23, 2020
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After a hemorrhagic stroke, often called a "bleeding" stroke, young black and Hispanic people are less likely than white people to be disabled or die within the following three months, a new study finds.
Hemorrhagic strokes occur when a blood vessel ruptures, causin...
Largest-Ever Study Ties Over 100 Genes to Autism
- Amy Norton
- January 23, 2020
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More than 100 genes appear to be involved in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), according to the largest genetic study of the condition to date.
The study, involving over 50 centers around the globe, identified 102 genes associated with ASD -- including a few dozen tha...
Scientists Trace Coronavirus Outbreak to Snakes
- Robert Preidt
- January 23, 2020
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Snakes may be the source of the new coronavirus outbreak in humans that started in China and has spread to other countries.
Patients who became infected with the virus -- named 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization -- were exposed to wildlife at a wholesale mark...
Racism Linked to Faster Aging Among Blacks
- Steven Reinberg
- January 23, 2020
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The racism black Americans face may age them prematurely, a new study suggests.
This aging is occurring at the cellular level -- specifically, the shortening of telomeres, researchers say.
Telomeres are the repetitive sequences of DNA that sit at the tips ...
AHA News: What's Blood Type Got to Do With Clot Risk?
- January 23, 2020
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People with blood types A and B may have higher risks for developing dangerous blood clots compared to people who have type O blood. That's according to new research that also showed a slightly higher risk for certain types of heart disease among the A and B groups.
