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HHS Directives Halt Agencies' Meetings, Travel, Publications
Health agencies including the CDC this week canceled meetings with external groups, paused some public health publications, and told employees to freeze travel after directives from the HHS, two sources familiar with the situation said.
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US to Leave World Health Organization on Jan. 22, 2026, Says UN
The United States will leave the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, 2026, the United Nations said on Thursday, after being formally notified of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of mishandling the pandemic and other international health...
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Adult ADHD Linked to Shorter Life Expectancy
Adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, otherwise known as ADHD, may face a shorter life expectancy than their peers. On average, men with ADHD died seven years earlier than men without it, while women with ADHD died nine years earlier than their counterparts,...
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Purdue Pharma to Pay $7.4B in OxyContin Settlement
Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, the attorneys general from several states announced Thursday. The...
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How Sparkling Water May Help You Lose Weight
Chalk up a partial win for health influencers who tout the slimming benefits of sparkling waters. New research out of Japan affirms that carbonated water may, indeed, promote weight loss by lowering blood sugar levels, allowing cells to burn fat between meals for energy more...
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Protect Your Pets Against Bird Flu
Several cats have fallen ill and died after contracting the H5N1 bird flu from raw food or unpasteurized milk. According to NPR, infectious disease expert Dr. Jane Sykes, of the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine warns that consuming raw milk or...
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How to Get Relief from Work-Related Eye Strain
The trouble started every day at around 3 p.m., after Cathy Higgins had spent five or six hours staring at an array of computer screens at her desk. Her university job overseeing research projects involved peering closely at numbers and details on contracts, applications...
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Higher Stroke Risk Among Children of Divorce
A broken home seems to set a ticking time bomb in the brains of some children of divorce. Seniors have a 61% higher risk of stroke if their parents divorced when they were children or teenagers, researchers reported in a study published Jan. 22 in the journal PLOS One.The...
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Vaccines, Antivirals Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
Preventing or treating infections could be a key means of warding off dementia, a new evidence review says. Vaccines, antibiotics, antiviral medications and anti-inflammatory drugs are all associated with a reduced risk of dementia, researchers reported in a study published...
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Nutrition Labels Cut Calories By Just 2 Percent
It's easy these days to see how many calories a cheeseburger will set you back, or how many added sugars are in a jar of pasta sauce. But nutrition labels haven't been as helpful at helping people cut calories as might have been hoped, according to a new evidence review...
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Trump Readying Order to Stop Virus Research, WSJ Reports
President Donald Trump's administration is preparing an executive order that would stop federal funding, at least temporarily, for research into viruses that makes pathogens more dangerous or contagious, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar...
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Daily Habits That Slow Aging
Aging gracefully requires sticking to healthy habits daily. According to experts at AARP, incorporating the following anti-aging strategies into your day can help delay the visible and invisible signs of aging. While individuals differ, and you should tailor your daily...
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Trump Freezes Many Health Agency Reports and Online Posts
The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month.In a memo obtained by The Associated Press, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink told...
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Multiple Sclerosis Drugs' Serious Allergic Reaction
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday warned about the risk of a rare but serious allergic reaction with the use of multiple sclerosis drugs including Teva's Copaxone. The health regulator is adding a new boxed warning, the FDA's most prominent warning, to...
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Database Identifies Unhealthy Ultra-Processed Foods
An innovative database developed by researchers at Mass General Brigham in Boston can now help you find the most nutritious prepared foods, while steering clear of unhealthful ultra-processed foods. Ultra-processed foods, typically full of hidden sugars, unhealthy fats, and...
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'Chameleon' Immune Cells Linked to Severe Asthma
A set of chameleon-like immune cells could be contributing to severe asthma in some patients. Intermediate group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) appear to be able to get around cutting-edge asthma treatments by transforming into another type of immune cell.Targeted biologic...
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Overactive Bladder Diagnoses Tripled
A sudden need to urinate is more common than previously known, but treatment is less common. Diagnoses for overactive bladder more than tripled between 2013 and 2017, after the American Urological Association (AUA) released guidelines for the condition in 2012, researchers...
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Seniors Not Benefiting From Medicare Advantage Plans
Medicare Advantage isn't that great an advantage for seniors compared with traditional Medicare, researchers say. The privatized form of Medicare offers more supplemental benefits than traditional Medicare, including dental, vision and hearing benefits. But many seniors...
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Red Menace: FDA Acted on Food Dye Before RFK Jr. Could Kill It
In politics, it's strange how some seemingly immovable objects or resolute positions just vanish overnight. Such was the case with "Morning Joe" Scarborough and his wife and cohost Mika cozying up to their former nemesis right after Trump won the election. Who could have...
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Trump Admin Asks Health Agencies to Pause External Comms
The administration of President Donald Trump has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, it was reported Tuesday.
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GLP-1 Drugs Lower Risk for 42 Health Conditions
Popular GLP-1 medications for weight loss and diabetes may have unexpected benefits for reducing risks for conditions such as substance abuse, psychosis, infections and even dementia. But these drugs also come with risks that shouldn't be overlooked, researchers warn in a...
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COVID Raises Risk for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
COVID-19 appears to increase a person's risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome.People who've caught COVID are nearly five times more likely to develop chronic fatigue syndrome, according to results recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.This...
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ADHD Diagnoses in Adults Are Increasing
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses have increased among adults in recent years, while remaining stable among teenagers. ADHD diagnoses among adults increased by 15% between 2020 and 2023, after declining by nearly 11% from 2016 to 2020, researchers...
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Hormone Therapy Does Not Raise Brain Tumor Risk
Hormone replacement therapy to ease menopause symptoms doesn't increase a woman's risk of brain tumors. Researchers found no link between hormone therapy and gliomas, the most common brain tumors in adults, according to results of a new study published recently in the...
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FDA Approves Ketamine-based Nose Spray for Depression
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson's ketamine-based nasal spray Spravato to treat adults with major depressive disorder (MDD), the company said on Tuesday. The approval paves the way for use of Spravato in patients whose disease has stopped...