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Adopting these 8 healthy habits by middle age could add decades to your life
Health
Adopting these 8 healthy habits by middle age could add decades to your life
By Erin PraterDecember 11, 2024
Each year norovirus causes an average 900 deaths, 109,000 hospitalizations, 465,000 emergency room visits, and 19 to 21 million illnesses in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health
Norovirus causes up to 21 million illnesses in the U.S. every year. Here’s what to know about the contagious disease that hand sanitizer can’t kill
By Erin PraterDecember 10, 2024
Smoothie bowl with fresh berries and granola
Life
11 benefits of chia seeds from gut health to weight loss
By Erin Prater and Ani FreedmanNovember 28, 2024
More Millennials and Gen Xers are getting colorectal cancer. Even young adults should watch for these 7 symptoms
Health
More Millennials and Gen Xers are getting colorectal cancer. Even young adults should watch for these 7 symptoms
By Erin PraterNovember 4, 2024
A study on the Mediterranean diet offers the strongest proof yet that it’s associated with healthy brain aging
Health
A study on the Mediterranean diet offers the strongest proof yet that it’s associated with healthy brain aging
By Erin PraterNovember 1, 2024
Walking faster may help you live longer. Experts say to aim for this pace
Life
Walking faster may help you live longer. Experts say to aim for this pace
By Erin PraterOctober 25, 2024
Two women carrying yoga mats walk in a park
Health
A group of women lowered their biological age by an average of 5 years in just 8 weeks. Here’s how
By Erin PraterSeptember 22, 2024
What is ketamine, the drug responsible for ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry’s death?
Health
What is ketamine, the drug responsible for ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry’s death?
By Erin PraterAugust 15, 2024
Prostate cancer shouldn’t be a death sentence. But for a startling number of U.S. males, it is
Health
Prostate cancer shouldn’t be a death sentence. But for a startling number of U.S. males, it is
By Erin PraterFebruary 10, 2024
Phthalates can be found in “a broad swath” of consumer products, from personal care to food packaging. The exposure of pregnant women to such chemicals may be linked to preterm birth, Dr. Leonardo Trasande, a professor of pediatrics and population health at NYL Langone Health, tells Fortune.
Health
Plastic-linked ‘hormone-disrupting chemicals’ were potentially behind 10% of U.S. preterm births in 2018, according to new research. How families can steer clear of their danger
By Erin PraterFebruary 6, 2024
Scientists aren’t sure if cannabis use leads to anxiety, or if anxiety symptoms in many cannabis users are pre-existing but underdiagnosed, prompting users’ attempt to self-medicate.
Mind
Heavy marijuana use may fuel anxiety disorders, new research finds. This age group is most at risk
By Erin PraterFebruary 5, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden takes a selfie photograph with an attendee at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 12, 2022. Biden's remarks on his administration's cancer moonshot, taking place on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's "Moonshot" speech, are aimed at the goal of ending cancer.
Health
Public health advocates urge action on menthol, applaud accomplishments like patient navigation as Biden administration celebrates 2-year anniversary of ‘cancer moonshot’
By Erin PraterFebruary 4, 2024
Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer
Health
Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer
By Erin PraterFebruary 4, 2024
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, speaks to the media during a press conference with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Program, at the Government Buildings in Dublin on Dec. 18, 2023. Ghebreyesus spoke on the topic of the pandemic treaty Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit in Coventry, England, attending virtually from Geneva. He called the treaty, currently in dispute my member nations, "mission critical for humanity."
Health
WHO chief warns ‘future generations may not forgive us’ if pandemic treaty not agreed upon: ‘There will be a next time’
By Erin PraterFebruary 3, 2024
The impact of various environmental factors—like climate, nutrition, and toxicants—on the epigenome has been shown to extend tens of hundreds of generations in fruit flies and hundreds of generations in plants. It's unknown how far out it might extend in humans.
Health
Toxic chemicals your grandparents were exposed to are likely affecting your health, new research claims. Here’s how it works
By Erin PraterFebruary 2, 2024
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