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June 26, 2023 – Amelia Kennedy, 19, of Royersford, PA, a point guard on the Catholic University of America basketball team who will begin her sophomore year in the fall, uses TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and You Tube regularly.How regularly? She estimates 7 hours a day and about 9 on weekends. She’s aware of the time-wasting… […]

By Alan Mozes HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, June 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When a child unintentionally shoots and kills another child in the United States, they’ve likely been playing around with an unlocked, loaded gun, new research reveals.Analyzing a decade’s worth of data, researchers also found that 4 out of 10 such gun deaths involve kids 2… […]

June 26, 2023 – The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may now be as critical as ever, though young people are taking the shot in fewer and fewer numbers. An epidemic of sexually transmitted HPV is now swirling around the U.S. and the U.K., with some serious cases leading to oropharyngeal cancer, which can affect the… […]

When Laurie Syphard’s oldest child was 18 months old, her lip swelled up after eating a veggie burger. “It looked like someone had punched her in the mouth,” says Syphard. Food allergy tests showed her daughter was allergic to tree nuts. Then a few years later, Syphard’s second child got her own allergy diagnosis at… […]

June 22, 2023 – The CDC is urging people to ensure they are vaccinated against measles before summer travel. International travelers are particularly at risk, the CDC said, noting that 88% of all cases in the U.S. so far this year are linked to international travel.“Based on current estimates, twice as many Americans are planning… […]

When your baby has a food allergy or digestive condition that means cutting certain foods out of their diet, they may get fewer of certain nutrients they need for proper growth and development as a result. But with the right monitoring and intentional nutritional replacements, your food-restricted baby can continue to thrive.Signs of DeficienciesThe best… […]

June 22, 2023 – CAR T-cell therapy is a relatively new and extremely effective treatment for blood cancers such as leukemia. That is, if you can get it. For many, the drugs are too expensive to afford without insurance coverage, and treatment requires access to the few hospitals that offer the therapy.Barriers are especially unequal… […]

June 19, 2023 – State and local health officials around the country are reporting the first cases of West Nile virus of the season in humans and urging people to take action to protect themselves from the mosquito-borne disease.In the past 2 weeks, new cases have been reported in Iowa and Nebraska, adding to previous 2023 reports… […]

June 23, 2023 – When emergency room patients complain of stomach pain, doctors have limited options. Scans and ultrasounds can’t show the inner lining of the digestive tract, so patients are often sent home without answers. Upper endoscopies, where a flexible tube with a tiny camera is fed into the upper digestive tract, require anesthesia and… […]

Even though HER2-positive breast cancer is an aggressive form of the disease, recent advancements in medicine have improved outcomes drastically. Compared to just a few decades ago, this type of breast cancer responds better to treatment. But people with it are still choosing mastectomies over surgery that would allow them to keep their breast –… […]