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When anti-vaccine activists and others argue that the immunizations used to protect children from infectious diseases are risky, they often point to aluminum salts, a product added to many childhood vaccines to increase their effectiveness. A new large study from Denmark directly counters those claims. After mining the vaccination and medical records of more than 1.2 million children over a …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine. When most of us think about sugar, I bet we’re not thinking about our sex lives. We’re thinking about dessert. I’m writing this with the help of a bowl of vanilla …

Facebook Tweet Email Link An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain completely unvaccinated, according to a new report, and public health experts point to conflict zones as threatening childhood vaccination efforts worldwide. Each year, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund publish a comprehensive report on estimates of national immunization coverage, based on data from 195 countries. …

Bourigault et al. 2024 Thousands of scans of each participant are recorded and stored as part of the imaging project. Here showing images of the abdomen and major organs Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers. The world’s biggest human imaging …

Tracy Robert believed her bloating and abdominal pain were symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a diagnosis doctors had given her 20 years ago. During her first pregnancy, she was also told she had an internal hemorrhoid after experiencing rectal bleeding, which doctors attributed to her IBS and hemorrhoid history.  ER staff and her primary care doctor advised her to …

Exercise is medicine. Most of us have heard that advice more times than we can count. But what if the best way to treat high blood pressure doesn’t involve running miles or lifting heavy weights? What if the most effective exercise is one where you barely move at all? A major new analysis published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine …

NEW YORK (AP) — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been… NEW YORK (AP) — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread …

Vitamin D is important for many parts of your health, including your bones, immune system, and muscles. Some studies show that taking vitamin D supplements daily may help lower blood pressure, too. What Does the Research Say? The research on how vitamin D supplements impact blood pressure is mixed. Some research has found that people with low levels of vitamin …

There’s no way around it—many of us consume far too much sugar. Though the maximum recommended daily amount of sugar is 9 teaspoons, most adults in the United States average a whopping 17 teaspoons each day. Of course, a lot of that sugar is consumed accidentally. Often, it is hidden in plain sight. According to research, between 60% and 80% …

More than 37,000 years of infectious diseases in humans have been mapped by scientists, with academics pointing to one particular behaviour from our ancestors as playing a “key role” in their spread. Involving researchers linked to British; Danish; Swedish; German; Italian, and Australian universities, the study saw them analyse DNA from more than 1,300 prehistoric humans dating back as far …