Health

Ask almost any parent what screens are doing to their children’s brains and you will get the same answer. Rotting them. Shortening their attention. Making them worse at thinking. A team of Finnish researchers set out to measure exactly that kind of harm. They followed hundreds of children for eight years, from primary school into … Read more

A recently opened lounge in the Central Business District where cat lovers can pay a fee to bask in the presence of adoptable feline friends has closed temporarily after a few resident cats contracted ringworm.NOLA Cat Lounge announced the closure in a statement posted to social media Tuesday, saying lounge staff would evaluate reopening after … Read more

Audrey Zheng (North Allegheny Senior High School, Pittsburgh, PA) A 17-year-old student from Pennsylvania has developed an innovative bioengineering method to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer from blood samples, tackling one of the biggest challenges in cancer diagnosis. Audrey Zheng, a senior at North Allegheny Senior High School in Wexford, developed a technique that uses tiny … Read more

UTAH (KUTV) — A 39-year-old Utah mother of five who has never smoked is preparing for a rare double-lung transplant after Stage 4 lung cancer left her dependent on oxygen and with few treatment options remaining.One year ago, Kelsey Flake was running a half marathon. Now, according to her family, she cannot walk across a … Read more

A UK woman who developed a cough was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer — despite never having smoked. Jade Fardon, 33, couldn’t shift her cough, but doctors reassured her it would go away on its own. It did, but it came back again and again over the years, and she returned to the general practioner … Read more

One of the most popular drugs in the world can potentially do a number on your eyesight, new research suggests. Scientists in Taiwan studied the medical records of men taking tadalafil, the active ingredient in the erectile dysfunction medication Cialis, and found that when compared to similar people not taking the drug, tadalafil users were … Read more

CHICAGO — Chicagoans have reported more mosquito bites this summer, and experts say a growing invasive species of the pest coupled with a summer of heavy rainfall are to blame. The invasive Asian Tiger mosquito, or Aedes albopictus, has been spreading across the Chicago area over the past few years, experts say. They’ve become a … Read more

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Consuming a sugary drink a day may significantly raise the risk of developing stomach cancer, according to new research from Mass General Brigham.After accounting for other risk factors, the researchers found that one or more sugary drinks per day was linked to nearly triple the risk of … Read more

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Doctors have used GLP-1 drugs for weight loss for about five years, and researchers say some of the benefits are catching them off guard.Dr. Steven Heymsfield, a professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center and director of the Metabolism Body Composition Laboratory, has studied GLP-1 drugs for 15 years.“Some were predicted … Read more

We know that sugary drinks aren’t good for us, but that doesn’t seem to stop most people drinking them – and on a daily basis.Evidence suggests about two-thirds of American adults consume at least one sugar-sweetened beverage each day, and most children in the US do the same.That daily habit may significantly raise cancer risks, … Read more