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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 25 states are seeing growth in COVID cases as a summer wave appears to be starting, Adobe stock/HealthDay July 14 (UPI) — COVID-19 cases are on the rise again across the United States, with the biggest increases in parts of the South, Southeast and West Coast. The U.S. Centers for …

4 habits may help lower heart disease risk during menopause  AOL.com Menopause: 4 factors may be essential for long-term heart health  Medical News Today The One Thing Midlife Women Can Do Tonight to Protect Their Hearts  SciTechDaily Why sleep is the single most important way to protect your health post-menopause  Women’s Health The sleep-heart link doctors are urging women over 45 to know  ScienceDaily Source …

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Neon‑hued breakfast cereals, microwave‑ready pizzas, and oversized bags of chips now crowd supermarket aisles. A new study draws a sharp line between that convenience found in ultra-processed foods and a cluster of early warning signs for chronic disease. “It may be about the additives, the packaging, even the marketing,” said Anthea Christoforou of McMaster University, who led the investigation. Understanding …

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 …