Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Life-Saving Baby Heart Device

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 12, 2025
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MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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 producti...

Pregnancy Health Problems Increase Kids' Blood Pressure

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 12, 2025
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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 pressure while pregnant, researchers re...

U.S. Illicit Opioid Use Could Be 20 Times Higher Than Previously Estimated

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 12, 2025
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MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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 opi...

FDA Approves At-Home Cervical Cancer Test for Women Ages 25 to 65

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 12, 2025
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MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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 screens for human papil...

Birth Control Pill Increases Risk Of Asthma Attacks In Young Women

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 12, 2025
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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 in ERJ Open Research.

The...

Medicaid 'Unwinding' Cost Kids Access To Asthma Inhalers, Other Chronic Disease Meds

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 12, 2025
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MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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...

Double Lung Transplant Saves Mother Of Twins

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 12, 2025
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MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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...

Sweet Tooth Explained: Researchers Reveal How We Taste Sugar

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 11, 2025
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SUNDAY, May 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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 tiny part of ...

Topical Antibiotic May One Day Treat Infected Ears

• Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
• May 10, 2025
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SATURDAY, May 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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 so the...

Trump Taps Wellness Influencer Casey Means For Surgeon General

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) —  President Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and health tech entrepreneur, to be his nominee for U.S. surgeon general. 

The decision comes after Trump withdrew his previous nominee, Dr. J...

Thinking About a Tattoo? FDA Warns These Inks Could Be Dangerous

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers and tattoo artists that two tattoo inks have tested positive for harmful bacteria and could lead to serious infections.

The affected products are:

• ...

Some Cancers Increasing in People Under 50, New Report Shows

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More young adults in the U.S. are being diagnosed with cancer, and researchers are trying to figure out why.

A new government report shows that rates of several types of cancer are going up in people under age 50, especially a...

Childhood Obesity Triples Odds Of Weight Discrimination

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Childhood obesity nearly triples a person’s risk for experiencing discrimination or stigma based on their weight, a new study says.

Severe obesity before age 18 increased a person’s odds of experiencing weight stig...

Talk Therapy On The Rise, Psychiatric Meds Used Less Often

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More talk and fewer pills are being employed to help Americans maintain their mental health, a new study says.

Psychotherapy is assuming a larger role in mental health care, while medications prescribed without accompanying th...

Blood Testing Could Catch Cancers Early, Projections Say

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Blood tests could catch as many as half of cancers at an earlier, more treatable stage, a new study says.

If conducted every year or every other year, the multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood test could help more people s...

Smoking Doesn't Explain Increased COPD Risk For Women

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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Smoking can't explain why women are more at risk for COPD, a new study says.

Women are about 50% more likely than men to develop COPD even though they are less likely to smoke, researchers reported May 8 in the journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research.

Smokin...

Women With Autoimmune Disease At Greater Risk For Heart-Related Death

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women with common autoimmune inflammatory diseases are more likely than men to die from heart disease, a new study says.

Women with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or systemic sclerosis have a 50% higher heart disease-related deat...

Ovary Removal Reduces Death, Cancer Risk Among Genetically Prone Breast Cancer Survivors

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes appears to dramatically reduce the risk of death among breast cancer survivors who are genetically prone to cancer, a new study says.

Breast cancer survivors carrying BRCA1 and BRCA2 ...