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Ticks Are Migrating, Raising Disease Risks if They Can’t Be Tracked Quickly Enough
Lyme disease, the often debilitating infection carried by deer ticks, started in Connecticut. It has recently shown up in Montana.
A Nutritional Hedge Against Skin Cancer's Return
A form of vitamin B3, nicotinamide, seems to reduce risk of recurrence of basal cell carcinoma and other skin cancers by over 50 percent.
You May Want to Keep Your Head Out of the Game
Call it soccer or call it football, heading the ball is associated with brain changes that can lead to cognitive deficits later on -- even among amateur players.
GLP-1 Drugs May Be No Match for Emotional Eating
People who eat as a way to manage their emotions seem to lose less weight with the new diet drugs than those who are simply attracted to the sight and smell of food.
Acupuncture Shows Promise for Low Back Pain
Acupuncture can give older adults a safe effective option for chronic lower back pain relief -- and its benefits often last quite a while.
Parents Who Keep Their Kids Up at Night
Screen time isn't the only thing disturbing teens' sleep. Parental conflict and mental health struggles keep them up, too, and deserve attention.
IVF Fertility Treatments Go to Pot
Using cannabis during fertility treatment can affect egg cells and lead to chromosomal changes that could be passed on to an embryo.
Diets that Delay Disease
Whether your diet fuels or thwarts inflammation makes a difference in your chances of developing a range of chronic diseases. What to eat.
Online Images Often Show the Wrong Way to Take Blood Pressure
More than half of the online images of a person having their BP taken showed the wrong way to do it. This can lead to mistaken treatment.
Fighting a Health Insurance Denial? Here Are 7 Tips To Help
Denying a claim is essentially standard operating procedure for health insurance companies. Here are the hoops you may need to jump through to be reimbursed.
How Anger Spreads
Anger is contagious — in mice and in men. Our brains respond to the excited signals of others, mirroring their agitation.
Meds Often Prescribed Too Early for Kids with ADHD
Behavior management therapy often takes a backseat to medication in young children with attention and hyperactivity issues. A mistake.
Give Meat a Chance
Red meat is known for its risks -- to your heart in particular. But it seems to offer some rewards, too.
Prenatal Exposure to Agricultural Pesticides Lasts a Lifetime
Pesticides used on crops cross the placenta to affect fetuses. They are linked to autism, brain damage and behavioral problems that last a lifetime.
Heavy Alcohol Consumption Disrupts the Pancreas
Drinking too much can lead to pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancers. New research illuminates the molecular mechanisms behind it.
HEPA Help for Hypertension
Pollution from cars and factories doesn't only affect breathing -- it can raise blood pressure. An at-home air purifier will help lower it.
When Back-to-School Jitters Turn into School Avoidance
Wanting to avoid school because of anxiety is common, but letting kids stay home won't ease their concerns. Help them address their fears instead.
Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence for More Accurate Breast Cancer Screening
A crowd-sourced competition testing the ability of AI algorithms to help radiologists read mammograms yielded impressive results, especially for invasive cancers.
A Surprisingly Good Egg
Eggs are better for us than most of us have been led to believe. It's not eggs raising your cholesterol, it's saturated fat in other foods.
Dollar Stores' Effects on Diet Aren't As Bad As Many Suspect
It's true stores carry lots of processed snacks and don't carry fresh fruits and veggies, but most shoppers buy these healthy foods elsewhere.