With more people dying from Alzheimer’s disease than ever before, experts are emphasizing the importance of early diagnosis and intervention.The number of fatalities due to the disease increased by 141% between 2000 and 2021, according to the 2024 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures report.Also, the number of Americans living...
You woke up with an unsightly cold sore — but hiding out at home isn’t an option.What can you do?First, you’re not alone. Up to 80% of American adults have the herpes simplex virus (HSV-1), which can cause cold sores (also known as fever blisters), according to Johns Hopkins.The...
Accelerated aging — when someone’s biological age is greater than their chronological age — could increase the risk of cancer tumors.That’s according to new research presented this week at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego, California."Historically, both cancer and aging have been viewed...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert Friday to inform clinicians, state health departments and the public of a case of avian influenza — aka bird flu — in a person who had contact with dairy cows in Texas.A farmworker on a...
The White House has declared April 2024 as Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month.In a proclamation issued on March 29, President Joe Biden acknowledged the "enormous progress" that has been made toward beating cancer in the U.S. while noting that it's still the second-leading cause of death.To help prevent...
As avian influenza (bird flu) continues to spread among wild birds in the European Union, officials are warning of the potential for a future human pandemic.On Wednesday, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued an alert noting that "transmission between bird and mammal species has been observed, particularly in...
Allowing babies to sleep outside their cribs or dedicated solo sleep spaces can have life-threatening risks.That’s according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which was published in the medical journal Pediatrics.Among infants who died suddenly, 59.5% were sleeping with someone else at the...
When it comes to sleep disruptions, it doesn’t get much worse than the dreaded night cough.If coughing is keeping you up at night, you’re probably frustrated, fatigued and wondering how to put a stop to it.Dr. Daniel Landau, a board-certified physician in South Carolina and contributor to The Mesothelioma...
Since 2020, the prevalence of medication abortions — triggered by what’s known as the abortion pill — has risen 10%.Medication abortions made up 63% of all abortions performed in the U.S. in 2023, according to data from the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization headquartered in New York.Some...
Kate Middleton’s Friday video announcement of her cancer diagnosis may have shed some light on why she’s been out of the public eye lately — and there's been an outpouring of support for her and the royal family ever since she spoke to the world via video. In her video message...
A simple blood test could detect colorectal cancer (CRC) with more than 80% accuracy, according to a new study coauthored by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington. The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, included nearly 8,000 people between the ages of 45...
Could artificial intelligence predict when your aging loved one will need long-term care?Approximately 70% of adults aged 65 years and older will require long-term care at some point in their lifetime, statistics show — and the time leading up to that can be fraught with uncertainty.One California company is...
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