Health

BojanMirkovic/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At-home stool tests can be an easier way to screen for colorectal cancer than a dreaded colonoscopy. As the rates of the cancer continue to rise in younger people, home tests might help improve detection and get people treated sooner. March marks the beginning of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal […]

JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The popularity around weight loss drugs like Ozempic is worrying eating disorder experts, who say the conversation risks making recovery harder and could put others at risk of developing disorders. “My fear is that there is now a belief that anyone can and should achieve a certain […]

Tashi-Delek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Statins, drugs that are used to lower one’s cholesterol, can save lives – but come with steep side effects for up to a third of people who need them. Now, a new study shows an alternative drug can also dramatically reduce heart disease risk. The study in The New England Journal […]

Michael Swensen/Getty Images (EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — Psychosomatic effects may be contributing to the symptoms of headaches, fatigue, or respiratory issues being reported by some residents of East Palestine, Ohio, following a hazardous chemical spill last month, experts say. But “psychosomatic” does not mean that the symptoms are made up, according to experts. There is a […]

Sean Garnsworthy/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Australian regulators announced in February that psychiatrists will be able to prescribe psilocybin and MDMA as medication for certain mental health conditions starting July 1 of this year. The move makes Australia the first nation to approve the legal use of MDMA and psilocybin. This is a major regulatory step […]

Noel Hendrickson/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned parents in a new report to thoroughly clean all infant feeding items to avoid bacterial contamination after two infants were reportedly infected with a rare bacteria. The CDC reported that two infants were infected with the bacteria Cronobacter sakazakii, in 2021 and […]

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Increased time spent on social media is a risk factor for disordered eating, research shows. Andrea Vazzana, a child psychologist who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders in children, adolescents and adults at NYU Langone, said the negative influence of social media is largely owed to the amount of […]

Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 call centers and testing sites are closing across the United States as more Americans look to move on from the pandemic and with the emergency declaration set to end in May. In Rockland County, New York — just north of New York City — the call center closed […]

Samantha Desmond (NEW YORK) — One baby got a special homecoming parade three months after he was born weighing only 1 pound and 15 ounces. Samantha Desmond, 28, of Peabody, Massachusetts, was only 25 weeks pregnant, her baby roughly the size of a head of cauliflower, when her water broke — nearly three months before […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A couple has filed a lawsuit against a California-based fertility clinic alleging the clinic transplanted an embryo with a cancer mutation during in vitro fertilization, despite the couple specifically cautioning against it. Melissa and Jason Diaz allege in their lawsuit, filed this week in Los Angeles, that the fertility […]