FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The maker of Tylenol is pushing back against resurfaced claims that its popular pain reliever is unsafe for pregnant women.

Kenvue, the parent company of Tylenol, issued a statement Thursday after an old and now-deleted 2017 social media post resurfaced suggesting it did not recommend “... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A dangerous parasite once eliminated in the United States has been detected in northern Mexico, close to the U.S. border.

Mexico’s agriculture ministry confirmed Sunday that an 8-month-old cow in Nuevo León tested positive for New World screwworm. The animal was part of a shipmen... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new gene therapy has shown promise in slowing the progression of Huntington’s disease, according to early trial results released Wednesday.

In a Phase 1/2 study, patients given a high dose of UniQure’s experimental therapy AMT-130 experienced a 75% slowing of disease progression... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Sprout Organics has widened its recall of 3.5-ounce Sweet Potato, Apple & Spinach pouches because some lots may contain elevated levels of lead.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the recall, first announced Sept. 16, now covers additional lots sold online at Walgreens and t... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Teenagers and young adults are still harming themselves as part of a social media challenge that’s now five years old.

The Benadryl Challenge, which started in 2020 on TikTok, has spread to other social media platforms and is still being attempted by foolhardy young folks, researchers w... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Ultra-processed foods could be making matters worse for people in the early throes of multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study says.

Higher consumption of ultra-processed eats is linked to more frequent relapses in early MS patients, researchers reported Thursday at the annual meeting of the Euro... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The number of kids hurt or killed by a reversing car dramatically dropped after backup cameras were required in new vehicles, according to a new study.

Cases of children severely injured by a car in reverse fell by half following the 2018 federal mandate requiring backup cameras, researchers ... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Routine screening can help find kids who are suffering from undiagnosed asthma in communities with high levels of the breathing disorder, a new study says.

Asthma screening during well-child visits found that more than two-thirds (35%) of children with no previous diagnosis of asthma had at l... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A COVID-19 infection might blunt a person’s sense of smell for years afterward, but so subtly they might not even notice it, a new study says.

In all, 4 out of 5 people who reported that COVID had altered their sense of smell still scored low on a clinical scent detection test taken abo... Full Page

FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest living person in the world when she died at 117 in August 2024, and she passed with one fervent wish.

“Señora Branyas told us: ‘Please study me so I can help others,’ ” Dr. Manel Esteller, chair of genetics at the University o... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Eating fruits and vegetables is key to good health, but a new study suggests that choosing produce with higher pesticide residues may boost the amount of these chemicals leaching into the body.

Researchers linked the types of produce people eat with levels of pesticides found in their urine... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — One of the largest measles outbreaks in decades is spreading along the Arizona-Utah border, with dozens of confirmed cases among unvaccinated children.

Southwest Utah has reported 27 cases so far, nearly all in unvaccinated school-age children, local health officials said. Neighboring Mohav... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) declined in U.S. adults last year, but syphilis passed from mothers to newborns continued to climb, new federal data shows.

Tentative numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal a third straight year of fewer gonorrhea... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Air pollution is known to raise the risk of heart disease, strokes and breathing problems, but new research suggests it may also harm something else: kids’ vision.

In a study of nearly 30,000 schoolchildren in Tianjin, China, researchers found that kids exposed to higher levels of fin... Full Page

THURSDAY, Sept. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Heart disease remains the world’s top killer, causing 1 in every 3 deaths around the globe, a new study says.

Worldwide, the number of heart-related deaths has risen sharply, climbing to 19.2 million in 2023 from 13.1 million in 1990, researchers reported in the Journal of the Ame... Full Page