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.<...

Fresh & Ready Foods Recalls Products After Listeria Outbreak

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — At least 10 people in the U.S. were hospitalized with listeria infections linked to ready-to-eat foods, federal officials said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other agencies traced the outbreak to foods prod...

U.S. Advises Older Travelers to Avoid Chikungunya Vaccine

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health officials are telling travelers aged 60 and older to avoid a chikungunya vaccine while they investigate possible side effects.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Admin...

Curious? Healthy Brain Aging Might Depend On It

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Curiosity might have killed the cat, but maintaining such inquisitiveness could be key to preserving brain health as we grow older, a new study says.

Some forms of curiosity increase well into old age, and seniors who keep w...

GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Cut Alcohol Cravings By Two-Thirds

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cutting-edge weight-loss drugs like Ozempic/Wegovy can cut alcohol intake dramatically in a short amount of time, a new study says.

People taking semaglutide or liraglutide reduced their alcohol consumption by two-thirds wit...

No Link Between ADHD Meds And Psychosis, Study Says

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — ADHD stimulant meds don’t increase children’s risk of psychosis, a new study says.

Analysis of stimulant prescriptions among nearly 8,400 kids with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder found no evidence that ...

Hearing Aids Effective In Combating Loneliness Among Seniors

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Could loneliness occur for some older folks because they can’t hear well enough to maintain essential social connections?

Hearing aids appear to be an effective method of countering an epidemic of loneliness among U.S....

HIV Pills Might Prevent Alzheimer's

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Drugs that battle HIV and hepatitis B might be able to help people avoid Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says.

Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are used to prevent HIV and hepatitis B from replicati...

First-Of-Its-Kind Surgery Uses Eye Socket To Remove Spinal Cancer

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• May 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A first-of-its-kind surgery has gone through a young woman's eye socket to remove a cancerous tumor wrapped around her spine.

Surgeons threaded a thin lighted tube called an endoscope down through the 19-year-old woman&rsquo...

Researchers Say Dance and Lullabies Are Learned, Not Hardwired

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• May 12, 2025
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MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Most parents know the soothing power of a lullaby like “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” But a new study suggests that singing to babies and even dancing may not be natural behaviors for everyone.

The study, publis...