HEALTH

[ad_1] Summary: A new review connects low socioeconomic status (SES) with significant changes in brain development, behavior, and cognitive outcomes. The review synthesizes existing research to present a unified framework showing how factors common in low SES environments—such as poor nutrition, chronic stress, and substandard living conditions—adversely affect neurodevelopment. This disruption can lead to diminished […]

[ad_1] Going vegan won’t improve your health, an experiment suggests. Researchers have discovered plant-based meat products offer no ‘clear benefit’ for heart health.  People who ate fake sausages, burgers and mince also seemingly had worse blood pressure than their meat-consuming counterparts.  Experts today labelled the ‘health halo’ surrounding plant-based meats unjustifiable and urged the food industry

[ad_1] Q: I know someone who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She’s in her 40s and totally healthy. Why do people like her get cancer? A: Cancer rates among people younger than 50 — called early-onset cancer — have been on the rise worldwide since 1990. Men and women in their 40s represent the

[ad_1] One in three Utah homes have a high level of radioactive gas that causes lung cancer—and most Utahns don’t know it. What radon is Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas highly prevalent in Utah due to the state’s geography. This gas is created when uranium in the ground decays, and uranium is present

[ad_1] In the summer of 2019, an outbreak hit America. More than 2,800 people were hospitalized and 68 people died, US health authorities reported. The most likely common cause – a chemical found in some vapes that damages lung tissue, leaving people gasping for air and coughing. That lung injury outburst spurred on researchers investigating

[ad_1] Should menopausal women be eating like weightlifters? That’s certainly what a new analysis suggests. Scientists from Semmelweis University in Budapest looked at 134 studies and found that certain eating habits, including high consumption of protein, could alleviate some of the most common symptoms of midlife hormonal fluctuation — with weight gain, a chief concern

[ad_1] And shellfish, including lobster and shrimp, were found to have higher concentrations of PFAS than fish. rebeccafondren / Getty Images Your favorite seafood may contain hazardous chemicals. A new study out of Dartmouth College determined that while seafood consumption has proven health benefits, it can also be a source of exposure to contaminants that

[ad_1] Paul Harris/Getty Images Los Angeles County health officials released an exposure warning Saturday regarding an unidentified traveler with measles who visited locations in the county between March 30 and April 1. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said it had received notification from the California Department of Public Health of the disease

[ad_1] The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new data addressing the link, or lack thereof, between the COVID-19 vaccine and sudden cardiac death in otherwise healthy young adults. The assessment, conducted between June 2021 and December 2022, investigated the death certificates and vaccination records of 1,292 Oregon decedents aged between

[ad_1] More than 6,000 people a day are infected with viral hepatitis — and progress fighting the disease has stalled, a recently released World Health Organization report suggests. The analysis, released at the World Hepatitis Summit in Lisbon this month, looks at the burden of viral hepatitis in 187 countries and assesses the world’s progress