U.S. Suspends Live Animal Imports Amid Screwworm Outbreak in Mexico

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has temporarily halted the import of live cattle, horses and bison from Mexico. 

The move aims to stop the spread of New World screwworm, a dangerous flesh-eating parasite that...

Trump's Surgeon General Pick Touts Psychedelics for Health

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — President Donald Trump's choice for U.S. surgeon general has raised eyebrows for promoting the use of psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin, in a 2024 book and her personal newsletter. 

His choice for the post is welln...

NIH Research Cuts Leave Cancer Patient Facing Hard Choice

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A mother with stage 4 colon cancer faces an uncertain future after federal staff cuts delayed her experimental cancer treatment.

Natalie Phelps, 43, was accepted into an immunotherapy study at the National Institutes of Hea...

Study Finds No Link Between COVID Vaccine And Miscarriage Risk

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — There’s no link between the COVID-19 vaccine and miscarriage, a new study says.

COVID poses significant risks to pregnant women, including preterm birth, maternal death and need for ICU care for either mother or baby ...

Alzheimer’s Drug Can Be Safely Administered In Memory Clinics, Study Says

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The 2023 approval of the first drug shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease came with no small amount of concern from skeptics.

Lecanemab (Leqembi) modestly slows Alzheimer’s by helping the body flu...

Smartphones Aid Recovery From Broken Leg, Hip

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A person’s smartphone can show how well they’ll recover from a broken leg or hip, a new study says.

Smartphone data showing a person’s mobility prior to their injury provides a clear window into their chan...

Broken Heart Syndrome Remains A Killer, Especially For Men

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — “Broken heart syndrome” sounds like a romantic, fairy-tale notion — the idea that suffering a devastating loss that can cause one’s heart to wither.

But this syndrome, formally known as Takotsubo car...

Improvements In Prostate Cancer Tracking Help Men Stay In Active Surveillance

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Men in “watchful waiting” mode for their low-risk prostate cancer are staying healthier longer thanks to advanced imaging and treatments designed to keep their tumor at bay, a new study says.

Advanced MRI imagin...

'Mini-Strokes' Linked To Long-Lasting Fatigue

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A temporary “mini-stroke” can have a lasting effect on the victim’s life for as much as a year, a new study says.

Prolonged fatigue is common in people who’ve suffered a transient ischemic attack (TI...

Celtics Star Jayson Tatum Out for Season With Torn Achilles

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum will miss the rest of the season after tearing his Achilles tendon. The team announced Tuesday that Tatum had surgery to repair the injury.

Tatum, 27, was hurt in the fourth quarter of M...

RFK Jr. Criticized for Swimming With Grandkids in Bacteria-Filled Creek

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under fire after posting photos of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a long-polluted creek. 

The water at Rock Creek Park in Washington, ...

FDA to Review and Possibly Ban Fluoride Supplements for Kids

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to review and possibly remove prescription fluoride supplements for children from the market.

The FDA announced Tuesday that it intends to conduct the review by Oct. 31, 20...

Family Doctors Find It Tough To Talk Sex With Patients

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Sex is an important part of people’s health, but family doctors find it tougher to counsel and treat patients for sexual health matters, a new study says.

General practitioners are 77% less likely than OB/GYNs to inq...

Sports, Exercise Protects Mental Health Of Growing Kids

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Exercise and sports appear to help kids avoid mental health problems as they grow into young adults, a new study says.

Young children who participated in sports teams and physical education classes were less likely to deve...

AI Can Catch Hard-To-Detect Breast Cancers In Mammograms

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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Artificial intelligence (AI) can help prevent breast cancers that develop between routine mammograms, by catching ones that trained radiologists would overlook, a new study says.

Incorporating AI into mammography could help reduce the number of interval breast cancers by...

More U.S. Teens Getting Weight-Loss Surgery

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More U.S. teenagers are getting weight-loss surgery, despite the discovery of new drugs like Ozempic/Wegovy that help people drop pounds surgery-free, a new study says.

Weight loss surgeries for teens increased 15% between...

Drug Effective Against Early Migraine Symptoms

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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Migraines don’t just cause headaches.

These attacks often are accompanied by symptoms like light and sound sensitivity, nausea, neck pain and dizziness.

What’s more, those non-headache symptoms tend to crop up before a full-fledged migraine headache tak...

Weight Gain, Delayed Motherhood Linked To Breast Cancer Risk

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 14, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Significant weight gain paired with delayed or foregone motherhood nearly triples a young woman’s risk of later breast cancer, a new study says.

Women were 2.7 times more likely to develop breast cancer if they:

Blackouts Boost Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Risk Among Young Kids

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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MONDAY, May 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Power outages greatly increase a young child’s chances of carbon monoxide poisoning due to improper use of gasoline-powered generators, a new study says.

Children younger than 5 had a more than 50% increased risk of carb...

OpenAI Releases HealthBench Dataset to Test AI in Health Care

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — OpenAI has unveiled a large dataset to help test how well artificial intelligence (AI) models answer health care questions. 

Experts call it a major step forward, but they also say more work is needed to ensure safety.<...