Many teenagers have a hard time discerning between accurate health messages and “fake news,” a new study finds. Presented with a choice between fake and true health messages, about two in five teenagers considered both messages equally trustworthy, researchers found. Further, about one in 10 actually considered the fake message more trustworthy than the accurate…  read on >  read on >

Yes, you can get monkeypox at the gym, but there’s no need to panic, one expert says. “We have plenty of ways to protect ourselves in this setting,” said Dr. Thomas Giordano, chief of infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. First, wipe down equipment including weight machines, dumbbells, barbells and yoga mats,…  read on >  read on >

Breathing in fumes from diesel exhaust may be more damaging to women than to men, a new, small Canadian study claims. “We already know that there are sex differences in lung diseases such as asthma and respiratory infections,” said lead researcher Hemshekhar Mahadevappa, from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. “Our previous research showed that…  read on >  read on >

Men with Down syndrome may think and remember better when treated with a brain hormone normally associated with fertility, a new small-scale study suggests. Rhythmic drip doses of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) improved thinking skills in nearly all of a small group of adult males with Down syndrome, improving their memory, attention and reasoning. Six months…  read on >  read on >

The risk of suffering a stroke at an early age may depend partly on a person’s blood type, a large study suggests. When it comes to the risk of ischemic stroke — the kind caused by a blood clot — studies have hinted that blood type plays a role. People with type O blood generally…  read on >  read on >