When Eliana DeVos plays with her Ariel doll, her mom can’t help but get emotional. “I call her my little mermaid,” Krystal DeVos, who lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, told CNN. What makes that nickname extra special is the surprising way Eliana’s life was saved — through the use of fish skin. Eliana was born… read on > read on >
Being your own boss might seem potentially stressful, but self-employed women appear to have better heart health than those toiling for a company, a new study says. Women working for themselves had lower rates of obesity, physical inactivity, poor diet and sleeplessness, researchers reported recently in the journal BMC Public Health. These results indicate that… read on > read on >
Starting breast cancer screening in women’s early 40s will save more lives, a new study argues. Nearly 3 in 4 women (73%) in their 40s find out they have breast cancer only after they’ve developed symptoms, researchers reported May 30 in the journal Radiology: Imaging Cancer. These women are less likely to survive compared to… read on > read on >
Declining vaccination rates are making more and more U.S. children vulnerable to measles and mumps, a new study says. A national decrease in MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccinations among American children has occurred since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported June 2 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. More than three-quarters of U.S.… read on > read on >
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Salmonella-tainted tomatoes in three southern states could cause severe illness or even death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns. The FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to Class I — its highest warning level, The New York Times reported. A Class I recall… read on > read on >
A growing salmonella outbreak tied to cucumbers has made at least 45 people sick across 18 states, U.S. health officials have warned. The cucumbers came from Bedner Growers, a Florida-based company, and were distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales, Associated Press reported. The tainted cukes were sold in stores between April 29 and May 19,… read on > read on >
A structured exercise program helped colon cancer survivors live longer and lowered their odds for a relapse, a major international study shows. The program lasted three years and included regular meetings with a fitness coach, Associated Press reported. Over the period, people in the exercise group had 28% fewer cancers and had 37% fewer deaths… read on > read on >
It’s never too late to start eating right as a means of protecting your brain health, a new study says. People who improved their healthy eating in middle-age had a 25% lower risk of lower risk of dementia, compared to those whose diets got worse, according to findings reported today at a meeting of the… read on > read on >
Removing fluoride from the U.S. water supply could result in more than 25 million more decayed teeth in children and teenagers within five years, a new study warns. That’s the equivalent of a decayed tooth for 1 of every 3 kids in America, according to researchers from Mass General Brigham. “Fluoride replaces weaker ions within… read on > read on >
