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04 Feb
A new study finds children exposed to type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes in the womb have a slightly increased risk of developing epilepsy.
03 Feb
A new study suggests pink noise, a common sleep aide, may interfere with deep, restorative sleep necessary for both body and brain health.
02 Feb
HealthDay takes you on a tour of the Yale Teaching Kitchen, where patients with diabetes, heart disease, obesity and more learn to cook for life.
THURSDAY, Feb. 5, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Many middle-aged folks and seniors are shrugging off their annual flu or COVID-19 shot for a very simple reason, a new survey has found.
They just don’t think they need another jab.
About 28% of people older than 50 didn’t get a flu shot for that reason, and 29% didn’t...
THURSDAY, Feb. 5, 2026 (HealthDay News) — People who follow a Mediterranean diet might lower their risk of stroke, a new study reports.
Overall, women who stuck most closely to an eating pattern resembling the Mediterranean diet had an 18% lower risk of any sort of stroke, researchers reported Feb. 4 in the journal Neurology Open...
THURSDAY, Feb. 5, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Want to keep your teenager from using drugs or drinking?
Make time to have dinner with them, a new study suggests.
Most teens who have regular dinners with their family are less likely to turn to substance use, researchers reported today in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment &a...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For decades, researchers mostly blamed moms when children developed long-term mental or physical health problems.
Now, a new study suggests someone else may play a bigger role than once thought: Dad.
By age 7, children whose fathers were less attentive to them at 10 months of age were ...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Two people held at a large immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas, have tested positive for measles, officials said.
The South Texas Family Residential Center, located about 70 miles south of San Antonio, houses roughly 1,100 adults and children. After the cases were confirmed Ja...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Cuts to foreign aid are already shutting down soup kitchens, limiting medicine supplies and reducing food rations in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Now, new research suggests the damage could get much worse.
A study published Feb. 2 in The Lancet estimates ...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Amid mounting drug use and homelessness in U.S. cities, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the federal government is overhauling the way it fights addiction.
The strategy announced Monday includes a new focus on faith-based recovery programs and increased access to medication treatm...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Beating cancer is no small feat, but a diet loaded with ultra-processed foods might undercut survivors’ future health, a new study says.
Cancer survivors with diets high in ultra-processed foods have a 59% higher rate of death from cancer, researchers reported today in the journal ...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — "Pink noise” has become a trendy sleep aid, but a new study says it actually might interfere with brain activity during sleep.
People listening to pink noise suffered a decrease in the amount of time they were in REM sleep, the stage of sleep in which dreams occur, researchers reported...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A pill used to treat an overactive bladder can also be used to reduce hot flashes among men taking hormone-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer.
Men taking oxybutynin had a dramatic decrease in the number and intensity of hot flashes that occurred as a result of their prostate cancer trea...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For many teenagers, the cramping and discomfort of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can feel like a life sentence.
But a new long-term study offers good news: A majority of adolescents with the condition will likely enter adulthood symptom-free.
Researchers from the University of G...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — When high school athlete Devin Brenner suffered a catastrophic knee injury during a long jump event, his competitive dreams were suddenly replaced by a grueling 10-month road to recovery.
Now, the 18-year-old is using the Lego toys that helped him heal to inspire others facing similar ...
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Taking one additional pill could buy more than an extra year of precious time for people with advanced breast cancer, a new clinical trial showed.
Adding the targeted drug palbociclib (Ibrance) to existing therapies added 15 months of progression-free survival to patients with triple positiv...
TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The World Health Organization (WHO) says there is a low risk that the deadly Nipah virus will spread beyond India, where two people tested positive.
In an email sent to the Reuters news agency, WHO said it does not recommend travel or trade restrictions in the wake of the infections.<...
TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2026 (HealthDay News) — How couples see each other’s money habits may play a big part in how happy they feel, both in their relationship and their finances, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
Spouses who viewed their partners as savers rather than spenders reported higher levels of marita...
TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Several baby formula brands are pulling products from stores after France lowered the allowed level of a toxin that can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
On Monday, French companies Popote and Vitagermine removed five batches of infant formula following the rule change. Popote recalled two ...
TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Four astronauts preparing for an extended stay in space have started quarantine as they get ready for their next big mission.
The Crew-12 team entered a two-week isolation period Jan. 28 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The goal? Keep everyone healthy before liftoff...
TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Talk therapy is the best way to ease grief and depression following the death of a loved one, a new evidence review has concluded.
There’s solid evidence that psychotherapy can help people work through their grief, researchers reported today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Stroke rehabilitation might be focusing on the wrong side of a survivor’s body, a new study says.
Traditional rehab focuses on restoring strength and movement to the side of the body impaired by a stroke, researchers said.
But therapy targeted toward a stroke survivor’s less-...
TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2026 (HealthDay News) — American women might need only two to three cervical cancer screenings their entire lives if HPV vaccination becomes more widespread, a new study says.
Women vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 to 24 likely need a Pap test about every 15 to 25 years, researchers estimate in the A...