Good Weight-Loss Diets Avoid Processed Foods, Study Finds

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• August 5, 2025
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Want to drop some pounds? Drop the ultra-processed foods, a new study says.

People lost twice as much weight on a diet with minimally processed foods compared to one with ultra-processed products, even though both diets were nutritionally matched, researchers reported Au...

Veterans' Study Points to Better Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• August 5, 2025
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There’s a better way of treating binge eating disorder, a new study argues.

The method, called “regulation of cues,” reduced patients’ odds of binge eating by 20% compared to those who got standard cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), researchers r...

New Drug May Fight a Deadly Bone Marrow Disorder

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• August 5, 2025
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A recently approved leukemia pill also might help some patients diagnosed with a deadly bone marrow disorder, a new pilot study says.

About 3 in 5 patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) responded to treatment with olutasidenib (Rezlidhia), which the U.S. Food and D...

How Accurate Is ChatGPT When Asked About Your Health?

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• August 5, 2025
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ChatGPT is likely to be hit-or-miss when it comes to figuring out symptoms for a particular illness, a new study says.

The AI program has 49% to 61% accuracy when it comes to identifying symptoms associated with specific diseases, researchers reported recently in the jou...

When Insurers Restrict MS Drug Coverage, Relapses Rise

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• August 5, 2025
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients might have a higher risk of relapse if their health insurance is stingy with prescriptions, a new study reports.

Patients with insurance plans that exclude coverage of some MS treatments have a significantly higher risk of developing new ...

Freeze-Dried Fruit Recalled From Sam’s Club Over Listeria Risk

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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Popular freeze-dried fruit snacks sold at Sam’s Club are being recalled because of possible listeria contamination.

Doehler Dry Ingredient Solutions, LLC is recalling some 15-count boxes of “Member’s Mark Freeze Dried Fruit Variety Pack” after int...

Presidential Fitness Test Returns to U.S. Schools

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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The Presidential Fitness Test is returning to U.S. schools after more than a decade.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to bring back the program, which aims to improve physical fitness among students. The test was launched in 1956 and ended in 201...

Couple Welcomes Baby From 1994 Embryo in Rare ‘Embryo Adoption’

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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An Ohio couple has welcomed a healthy baby boy from an embryo frozen for more than three decades, setting what doctors believe is a new world record.

Lindsey and Tim Pierce’s son was born last Saturday after developing from an embryo frozen in 1994 — exactly ...

A Saliva-Based Test for Breast Cancer Might Be Near

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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In a small new study, a handheld saliva-sampling device successfully detected breast cancer 100% of the time, researchers said. 

The study only involved 29 saliva samples, and more research is needed. 

However, the results remain “very exciting beca...

MS May Begin Years Earlier Than Thought

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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People with multiple sclerosis (MS) begin experiencing new health issues up to 15 years before the classic signs of the illness appear, Canadian research shows.

“MS can be difficult to recognize as many of the earliest signs — like fatigue, headache, pain and...

U.S. Murder-Suicides Are More Common Than Thought

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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Murder-suicides — where a person kills one or more people before killing themselves soon after — are sensational, but very rare.

Or are they? 

New research finds that these tragedies are occurring more often in the United States than has been recog...

An Artificial Sweetener May Hamper Cancer Treatment

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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Findings from a study in mice suggest that using a common artificial sweetener, sucralose, could hamper certain immunotherapy treatments in cancer patients. 

However, for folks reluctant to give up the ubiquitous sweetener, the same team of scientists may have found...

Floods Have Big Downstream Effects on People's Health

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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Long after floodwaters recede, the impact of flooding on the health of older adults is profound, new research shows. 

Rates of hospitalizations for a range of conditions affecting the skin and nervous system, as well as poisonings, injuries or mental health woes&nbs...

Climate Change Will Send Many More Californians to the ER

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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California’s emergency departments will be more clogged than ever as climate change pushes daily temperatures higher, a study finds.

But there is one silver lining to the new research, however: Thousands of fewer deaths in California from extreme cold. 

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Scientists Find New Ecosystem in Deepest Trenches of Pacific Ocean

• Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
• August 3, 2025
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A scientific expedition into a region of the Pacific Ocean named for Hades, Greek god of the underworld, has uncovered an other-worldly ecosystem 30,000 feet deep.

"It’s a totally new thing that has not been seen before," said Dominic Papineau, an exobiologist at C...

Do Millipedes Hold Key to Pain Relief, Parkinson's Treatment?

• Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
• August 2, 2025
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To fend off predators, millipedes release defensive compounds that could one day play a part in treating pain and neurological diseases.

"These compounds are quite complex, so they’re going to take some time to synthesize in the lab," said chemist Emily Meyers, who...

New Health Record System Aims to Make Sharing Info Easier, Trump Says

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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President Donald Trump has introduced a new effort to help Americans more easily share their health records with doctors, using new technology and artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

“Today the dream of easily transportable, electronic medical records finally becom...

Hulk Hogan’s Cause of Death Revealed: Heart Attack at Age 71

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, Florida officials confirmed Thursday.

The 71-year-old entertainer, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died last week in Clearwater, Florida.

The official cause of death was acute myocardial infarction, the m...

Justin Timberlake Reveals Lyme Disease Struggle After Tour

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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Singer Justin Timberlake has Lyme disease, a condition he says caused nerve pain, fatigue and other symptoms during his recent tour.

In a post on Instagram Thursday, the 44-year-old pop star said the tick-borne illness left him feeling “relentlessly debilitated, bo...