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Facebook Tweet Email Link For older adults who may otherwise be food-insecure, participating in food assistance benefits may be associated with a slower cognitive decline as they age, according to new research. Compared with eligible people who were not participating in the US Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, SNAP participants showed a slower decline in cognitive function during a 10-year period, …

How Much Do You Know About Sunscreen? Take Our Quiz.  The New York Times Mineral v chemical sunscreen: Which one should you be using?  BBC Tested: The Best Mineral Sunscreens for Dark Skin in 2025 | NBC Select  NBC News Discover the best mineral sunscreens for 2025  London Evening Standard Global Mineral Sunscreen Market to Grow at 5.0% CAGR, Reaching  openPR.com Source link

Our periodic reminder that there are many bird flus out there: China reports more H9N2 human cases [same link] Multidrug resistant Salmonella is spreading in poultry.  Make sure to sterilize those cutting boards! Cambodia’s thirteenth H5N1 case of this year is in ICU And so is the fourteenth case, reported just yesterday World health organizations say the risk to the …

In early 2024, Melissa Sanders experienced an almost three-month long period. At 44 years old, she thought perimenopause, when the body starts to transition to menopause, was causing her heavy menstrual bleeding. “Everybody was telling me I’m going through perimenopause,” the now-46-year-old from Valley City, Ohio, tells TODAY.com. “I didn’t make a big deal about it. I just put up …

Canada’s Measles Cases Surpass U.S., Alberta Officials Push for State of Emergency  The New York Times Canada has three times as many measles cases as US  The Hill 30 measles cases in ‘low-vaccine’ communities in northern Nova Scotia  Delta Optimist Measles outbreak in Nova Scotia rises to 35 cases  Toronto Star Nova Scotia measles outbreak grows to 35 cases  The Globe and Mail Source link

A groundbreaking international study, recently published in Health Data Science, analyzed objective sleep data from 88,461 adults in the UK Biobank and found significant associations between sleep traits and 172 diseases. The research, led by teams from Peking University and Army Medical University, highlights sleep regularity — such as bedtime consistency and circadian rhythm stability — as an underrecognized but …

You can only learn so much from watching 20-plus seasons of Grey’s Anatomy, so I’m asking real-life medical professionals: What’s a freaky fact about the human body that most people wouldn’t want to know? Maybe you’re an OB-GYN, and you know that ovaries can develop tumors with teeth… —u/_bbycake Maybe you’re a brain surgeon who knows that patients won’t feel …

Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The culprit is a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) that’s regularly found on the skin. It’s long been thought to play a role in the development of skin cancer, but wasn’t …

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday North Carolina’s first reported case of West Nile virus in 2025. Officials said the case was found in a Durham County resident. Officials have not released the name of the person who tested positive. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the West Nile virus is the leading …

Nathan Bevan & Sara Smith BBC News, South East Gabriel & Sebastian Shemirani The 23-year-old, from Uckfield in East Sussex, died from a heart attack caused by her tumour An osteopath who saw a woman with cancer shortly before her death has told her inquest he had “never seen anything like” her case in 43 years of practice. Paloma Shemirani, …