SATURDAY, Sept. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Researchers in the Netherlands turned a major music festival into an unexpected laboratory to investigate a question that has long puzzled scientists and bug-bitten individuals alike: What makes some people more irresistible to mosquitoes than others?

For three consecutive days at the Lowla... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Every summer, hazy skies and the smell of burning wood remind Americans that wildfires affect far more than just the communities where they ignite.

Their smoke drifts for hundreds, even thousands of miles, darkening the air in cities across the nation. But the health impact goes far beyond wa... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials have moved to close down a Miami-based organ donation agency, citing unsafe practices, missed donations and critical paperwork errors.

The Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, part of the University of Miami Health System, is one of 55 nonprofit organ procurement orga... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Top vaccine advisers hand-selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to limit the use of a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.

By an 8 to 3 vote, with one person abstaining, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACI... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Four Western states are taking a different approach from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines for COVID-19, flu and RSV.

California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington — now working together as the West Coast Health Alliance — issued joint guidance Wedn... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A person’s risk of pancreatic cancer might be tied to the microbes living in their mouths, a new study says.

People have a more than tripled risk of pancreatic cancer if their mouths contain 27 types of bacteria and fungi, including some directly linked to gum disease, researchers repor... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Type 2 diabetes appears to double a person’s risk for life-threatening sepsis, a new study says.

Men and people under 60 with diabetes are particularly at risk for sepsis, a condition in which the immune system overreacts to infection, researchers reported this week at the annual meetin... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cutting-edge drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound are all the rage for dropping excess pounds, but weight-loss surgery might have a better impact on people’s health, a new study says.

People who had weight-loss surgery lost more weight, lived longer and faced fewer serious health problems co... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An effective weight-loss pill to rival injectable drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound might be on the horizon, clinical trial results show.

An experimental GLP-1 pill called orforglipron promoted substantial weight loss without the need for weekly injections, according to final clinical trial res... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People with fatty liver disease are more likely to die early if they have one of three additional health problems, a new study says.

High blood pressure, diabetes and low levels of “good” HDL cholesterol all increase the risk of death for people with fatty liver disease, researche... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Every movement we make, whether walking, speaking or even breathing, depends on the health of our muscles and nerves.

For people living with one of the more than 300 rare conditions known as neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), those everyday actions can become extraordinary challenges.

Whi... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials want to take Orange B — an artificial food dye that hasn’t been used in more than four decades — off the books.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it plans to repeal regulations that have allowed the synthetic dye in the foo... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Football legend Dan Marino has disclosed that he has been living with a serious liver condition for nearly 20 years. 

The former Miami Dolphins quarterback said that by making major lifestyle changes, he feels optimistic about his health.

Marino, 64, told People magazine... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Teenagers chatting with ChatGPT will soon see a very different version of the tool — one built with stricter ways to keep them safe online, OpenAI announced.

The new safeguards come as regulators increase scrutiny of chatbots and their impact on young people’s mental health.

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal officials are raising concerns about whether a Virginia Boar’s Head deli meat plant, linked to last year’s deadly listeria outbreak, is ready to safely reopen.

In a letter sent Monday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and nine other Democrats asked Boar’s Head offi... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An experimental wireless patch might help injured athletes better recover from muscle tears, sprains and strains, according to a new study.

The patch measures tissue stiffness by sending sound waves along the surface of the body and listening to the resulting vibrations, researchers said re... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Having trouble with bladder control? There might be an app for that, researchers say.

Female veterans suffering from urinary incontinence received effective relief using a smartphone app called MyHealtheBladder, researchers reported Sept. 16 in JAMA Network Open.

The app deli... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Nearly 4 out of 5 American neurologists prescribing multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs have received at least one payment from the pharmaceutical industry, a new study reports.

Those who prescribe larger amounts of MS drugs were more likely to have received payments, and those who got payments w... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People with psoriasis might receive unexpected benefits from cutting-edge weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound, a new study says.

Psoriasis patients taking GLP-1 drugs had a 78% lower risk of premature death and a 44% lower risk of heart attack, stroke or other heart-related health c... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A simple shunt can restore walking ability and independence in elderly people with a rare brain condition, a major new clinical trial has found.

Implanting a shunt to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid significantly improved walking and mobility among seniors with idiopathic normal pressure h... Full Page