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23 Apr
Late-Night Snacking and Stress: A Recipe for Bathroom Trouble
A new study finds people with chronic stress who eat 25% of their daily calories after 9 p.m. are more likely to suffer constipation or diarrhea.
22 Apr
Commonly Used Lyme Disease Tests May Miss Most Early Cases
As tick season begins, a new study shows commonly used Lyme disease tests often fail to catch early infections—even in patients with the classic rash.
21 Apr
Teen Pot Use May Slow Brain Development in Key Areas, Including Memory and Thinking
A large, new study finds kids who start using marijuana as teens experience slower gains in memory and thinking as they grow.
Drop in NIH Funding Delays Thousands of Studies
Many scientists are waiting much longer than usual for research funding and some projects are now on hold.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s largest funder of medical research, has fallen about $1 billion behind its typical timeline for awarding new grants this year, The New York Times reported.
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U.K. Plans To Ban Cigarette Sales for Future Generations
The U.K. is taking steps to ensure young people can never legally buy cigarettes.
Lawmakers approved a bill this week that will raise the legal age to purchase tobacco, The Associated Press reported.
Under the plan, anyone born after Dec. 31, 2008, will be permanently banned from buying cigarettes.
“The end of sm...
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Gene Cure For Inherited Deafness Effective, Long Lasting, Clinical Trial Finds
A new gene therapy to treat inherited deafness produces a lasting cure, a new international study has found.
The treatment, which targets the OTOF gene, restored hearing in 90% of participants, researchers reported April 22 in the journal Nature.
These results have lasted up to at least two and a half years after treatment, ...
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Most Americans Worried About Brain Health, But Few Know How To Protect It
Nearly all Americans are worried about their brain health as they age, ranking as important or more so than their physical health, a new Alzheimer’s Association report says.
However, they don’t know what steps they can take to maintain brain health and ward off dementia, according to the 2026 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts...
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ER Study Finds Major Gaps in Measles Immunity
As measles cases in California hit a seven-year high, new research suggests many adults are walking around without the protection they need.
A nationwide study reveals that emergency departments are seeing a high volume of patients who are under-vaccinated, uninformed or hesitant about the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
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IVF 'Add On' Procedure Doesn't Work, Evidence Review Concludes
A hormone therapy commonly offered to IVF patients to improve chances of pregnancy is really a waste of time, a new evidence review says.
Injecting the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) into a woman’s uterus before embryo transfer does not increase rates of either pregnancy or live births, researchers recently reported in th...
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