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Check your fridge: Popular butter brand recalled over e. coli contamination fears
One specific batch of a popular butter has been pulled from Sprouts, Wegmans and Raley's over contamination fears.
Diseases
Outbreak is now the worst in US history – over 18,000 infected
A summer of contaminated iceberg lettuce drove US cyclospora cases to an all-time high.
Mental Well-being
Depression may not be one illness: Scientists discover five different brain patterns
Scientists peering under the hood of major depression keep finding patients with the same diagnosis whose brains behave in opposite ways.
Vitamins and Supplements
7 supplements that may interact with your blood pressure medication
Some popular herbs on pharmacy shelves can quietly blunt the pills meant to lower your blood pressure, and a few may push it up on their own.
Sleep
Breathing through your mouth while you sleep may be quietly harming your health
Most people never notice they do it, and the clue often comes as a dry mouth or a nudge from a partner.
Exercise
How Many Push Ups should you be able to do? Amount sorted by age
Have you ever heard that completing 40 push-ups a day can significantly lower the risk of cardiovascular disease? Push-ups are an effective and simple way to measure upper body...
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Diseases
A deadly ebola outbreak has now infected more than 10,000 people
Nearly 5,000 people have died since May, and the only vaccine trial targeting this strain just began last week.
Mental Well-being
8 warning signs of adult ADHD that are often mistaken for stress or burnout
The adult version looks nothing like the child in the back of the class, which is why so many people miss it.
Nutrition
7 everyday foods that may help ease anxiety, backed by clinical research
Scientists don't call it a cure, but the same staples keep showing up in trials that ask what food can really do.
Body
Scientists find little evidence that ergonomic office gear actually relieves pain
An expensive office chair or ergonomic keyboard might seem like the answer to workplace pain. But a major review of 20 studies suggests these popular fixes may offer far less relief than expected.
Diseases
New blood test detected lung cancer recurrence nearly 17 months before scans
Scientists are testing a simple blood draw that may spot cancer cells rebuilding long before any scanner picks them up.
Diseases
New study reveals why sugar could be more dangerous for some men
A new mouse study points to a hidden chain of events in the gut that may leave some men's livers more exposed to everyday sugar.
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Exercise
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Scientists discover a village where women are three times more likely to reach 100
In the village outside the blue zone, women aged 70 have a roughly 1 in 7 chance of reaching 100.
AI detects deadly cancer 475 days before doctors diagnose it
Researchers took hundreds of scans that experienced radiologists had read as unremarkable and asked a new model what the human eye had missed.
You don’t have to lose weight to improve your heart health, research suggests
If you carry extra weight, what you do each day may matter more for your heart than the number on the scale.
These 8 symptoms could mean your thyroid is overactive
The symptoms look just like life catching up with you, but something quieter in the neck may be setting the pace.
Latest Articles
Explained: Mosquito-borne disease that turns deadly as fever disappears
Dengue fever has infected millions of people worldwide, and cases are now being acquired locally in parts of Europe. Although most patients recover, the disease has a dangerous characteristic: serious complications can develop just when the fever begins to disappear.
Daily vitamin C cut deaths nearly in half in a randomized blood cancer trial
Researchers tested a cheap, everyday vitamin in people with a quiet blood disorder, and the survival numbers caught them off guard.
Half a million heart deaths a year come down to one number most people never check
Researchers put a figure on what the world's leading preventable cardiovascular risk is quietly costing, and the fix is already on most pharmacy shelves.
Scientists find a hidden immune pathway that could open new treatments for the deadliest lung cancer
The deadliest lung cancer has slipped past the body's defenses for decades, and researchers now think they have found a way in.
How eating dark chocolate every day may affect your heart, blood pressure and brain
A daily square after dinner feels like a guilty pleasure, but the research behind that small habit tells a more interesting story.
How eating oats every day could quietly lower your LDL cholesterol
A small daily amount of one everyday grain carries a rare regulator's stamp of approval, and newer trials keep backing it up.
The five-letter home check that catches most melanomas, and where AI now helps
Mole-mapping tools are moving into clinics, but what you notice in your own mirror is still the earliest warning.
How long should it take you to fall asleep? What sleep experts say is normal
Most people treat crashing out instantly as proof they slept well, but sleep doctors read that clue the opposite way.
Your phone already knows when you are stressed, new AI research finds
You may not notice the shift, but the way you text, tap and scroll says more about your week than you think.