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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.
Nutrition
6 everyday foods that may be quietly raising your LDL cholesterol
If your last blood test came back a little too high, the usual suspects may already be sitting in your fridge.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
FDA clears a drug that lets some rectal cancer patients skip surgery entirely
The approval only covers a narrow group of rectal cancer patients, but for them it may rewrite what treatment looks like.
One reading during your sleep study could flag your heart failure risk a decade early
A single wire taped to your chest overnight at the sleep lab may already be reading more than anyone had thought.
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.
A new type of Alzheimer’s drug shrank plaques in mice without a brain-swelling signal
The compound is still only in mice, but it works through a very different route than today's approved Alzheimer's infusions.
Is running bad for your knees? Here is what the evidence actually says
The fear is everywhere, but the biggest review on the question came to a surprising conclusion about who ends up with worn joints.
8 warning signs of perimenopause most women don’t expect in their 40s
The changes can show up long before your periods shift, and they usually don't look the way you'd expect.
Berries, poultry and 2.5 extra years: What the MIND diet may do to your brain
The eating plan is a hybrid of two famous diets, and two of its foods did most of the work in a long new follow-up.
Taking Ozempic or Wegovy? Researchers have flagged a rare but serious vision risk
A new US analysis has sharpened the picture of a side effect that goes beyond the usual stomach complaints.