Health

Much has been written about the unprecedented impact that the second Trump administration has had on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from massive job cuts and entire programs being wiped out to leadership shake-ups and the undermining of science. But behind every headline, countless stories have gone untold about the real-world impacts that these changes will have on …

California’s first bird flu outbreaks of the 2025-26 winter season have hit close to home. The owner of Reichardt Duck Farm, which sits in the rolling hills between Petaluma and the Two Rock area, confirmed that his facility recently recorded positive cases of the dreaded virus. And Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture added to its public database a second …

Alaska Tops List Of America’s Most Stressed States  Study Finds Source link

Nick Mondek with his family after the stem cell procedure – Credit: Cedars-Sinai A boy in California may have saved his father from a deadly returning cancer by becoming one of if not the world’s youngest stem cell donor. 9-year-old Stephen Mondek from Torrance loves playing catch with his dad, Nick, who himself loves nothing more than being a father. …

Chemists from the University of Warwick and Monash University have identified a promising new antibiotic that can combat drug-resistant bacterial infections, including MRSA and VRE. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is considered one of the most serious threats to global health. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently warned that there are “too few antibacterials in the pipeline” and that most easily discoverable …

Before you spend your paycheck on fancy skincare and makeup products, try nourishing your skin from the inside out — what we put in our bodies is just as essential to a healthy glow as what we put on them. Content creator Sandipta, who shares beauty and skincare-related posts on Instagram, has shared some tips that could leave you glowing …

Woman Experienced Fainting Episodes and ‘Cancer Scare’ After Belly Button and Nipple Piercings (Exclusive)  AOL.com Source link

A team co-led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and West China Hospital Sichuan University (WCHSU), in collaboration with partners in the UK, reports a nanotechnology approach that reverses Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models. Rather than using nanoparticles as passive carriers, the researchers designed bioactive nanoparticles that function as “supramolecular drugs.” The treatment focuses on restoring the blood-brain …

Gallup: After peaking at a record high of 39.9% in 2022, the U.S. adult obesity rate has gradually declined to 37.0% in 2025. This is a statistically meaningful decrease representing an estimated 7.6 million fewer obese adults compared with three years ago. Meanwhile, diagnoses of diabetes — a lifetime disease that can be managed but not cured — have now …

Most adults do not need a hard eight hours of sleep; a growing body of evidence and evolutionary research suggest the optimal nightly sleep for many healthy adults is closer to seven hours, with health risks rising on either side of that range in a U‑shaped pattern. Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel E. Lieberman calls the rigid “8 hours” rule Industrial …