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Health news • Apr 09

What Happens When You Drink Wine Every Day? Health Experts Weigh In

Health experts explain whether drinking wine every day is healthy, including cancer risk, heart health claims, and how much alcohol is too much.

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Health news • Apr 09

How bad for humans is wildlife trade? A new study has answers

People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of spillover diseases from those...

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Health news • Apr 09

Wildlife trade increases pathogen transmission: What 40 years of data say about spillover

Hedgehogs, elephants, pangolins, bears or fennec foxes: many wild species are sold as pets, hunting trophies, for traditional medicine, biomedical research,...

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Health news • Apr 09

Trafficked animals more likely to share pathogens with humans, says study

Animals sold in the wildlife trade are 50 per cent more likely to share at least one disease with humans, according to a landmark analysis of the spillover...

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Health news • Apr 09

How the wildlife trade boosts the chance of a disease jumping from animals to humans

Decades of data reveal that animals involved in the wildlife trade—from pet sales to meat markets to illegal poaching—are much more likely to carry...

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Health news • Apr 09

Brain study reveals hidden link between autism and ADHD

Scientists are uncovering a surprising connection between autism and ADHD that goes deeper than labels. Instead of diagnoses, it's the severity of...

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Health news • Apr 09

Quick takes: CDC delays report on COVID vaccines; human plague case in Arizona

Today, the Washington Post reported that Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health and former acting director of the Centers...

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Health news • Apr 09

Healthy Diet Changes Later In Life May Lower Dementia Risk Study Finds

Eating a high-quality plant-based diet later in life may lower one's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, according to a new...

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Health news • Apr 09

Why America's deadliest cancer is spreading among fit, young people

It's the deadliest cancer in the US, killing about 125000 annually. As more fit, healthy people receive the devastating diagnosis, doctors are racing to...

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Health news • Apr 09

What Happens to Your Bone Density When You Take Creatine

Encouraging as it sounds, there isn't much research to support claims that creatine builds bone, and the scant research that exists hasn't panned out.

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Health news • Apr 09

This detox may erase 10 years of social media brain damage, researchers say

Studies show that taking even short breaks could reverse measures of cognitive decline.

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Health news • Apr 09

Alpha-gal syndrome from Lone Star tick bites "an emerging public health concern in Massachusetts"

Alpha-gal syndrome, the tick-borne illness that causes people to develop a serious allergy to meat and dairy, is "an emerging public health concern in...

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Health news • Apr 09

Dermatologists Reveal the Number-1 Sign of Skin Cancer—and It’s Sneaky

Doctors reveal the number-one sign of skin cancer across every type, plus why early detection is so important to getting potentially life-saving treatment.

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Health news • Apr 09

Doctors Suspected 17-Year-Old Boy Had Mono. A Blood Test Revealed a Life-Threatening Diagnosis

Jody White, now 44, looks back at his experience of being diagnosed with cancer as a teen, something he says came as a "complete shock"

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Health news • Apr 09

Sauna heat sends white blood cells surging through your bloodstream, study finds

Sauna bathing releases white blood cells into the bloodstream, a new study from Finland shows. Circulating white blood cells play a key role in the body's...

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Health news • Apr 09

6 science-backed exercises that may help people with Parkinson’s

Exercise may offer a benefit that pills, tablets and patches can't replicate.

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Health news • Apr 09

Marriage linked to lower risk of cancer, new study finds. Why?

In sickness and in health? A new study found tying the knot may be linked to a lower risk of cancer.

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Health news • Apr 09

5 years after lupus breakthrough, CAR-T is still surprising autoimmunity researchers

CAR-T therapy is toting up more remissions in autoimmune disease, and generating a flood of experimentation and investment.

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Health news • Apr 09

Woman With 3 Autoimmune Diseases Enters Remission After Immune 'Reset'

A patient with three different autoimmune diseases has entered complete remission after undergoing an experimental treatment that effectively reset her...

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Health news • Apr 09

CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'

A woman with three different autoimmune conditions had all of them treated simultaneously by genetically modifying her immune cells to kill off the rogue...

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