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A year in space put U.S. astronaut's disease defenses on high alert
Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared with his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday. Scientists don't know if the changes were good or bad, but results from ...
Trump gains weight, now officially deemed obese but remains in 'very good health overall'
President Donald Trump has put on some pounds and is now officially considered obese. The White House on Thursday released results of his most recent physical, revealing that his Body Mass Index is now 30.4. That's based on the fact that he's now carrying 243 ...
Turn down the volume: WHO takes aim at harmful smartphone use, saying over 1 billion people at risk
More than 1 billion young people risk damaging their hearing through excessive use of smartphones and other audio devices, the U.N. warned Tuesday, proposing new safety standards for safe volume levels. In a bid to safeguard hearing, the World Health Organization and International Telecommunications Union ...
How good advice on skin cancer can be bad for your blood pressure
A lack of sun puts darker-skinned people at greater risk for hypertension.
E-cigarette use 'skyrocketing' among young Americans, says U.S. health agency
The number of young Americans using e-cigarettes grew by 1.5 million in 2018, undermining years of progress in reducing youth smoking, health authorities said Monday. Some 3.6 million junior high and high school students were current users of vaping products, up from 2.1 million the ...
Number of flu patients in Japan falls after outbreak hits peak
The number of influenza patients per medical institution in Japan in the week through Feb. 3 dropped from the previous week in all of the nation's 47 prefectures, the health ministry announced. The average number of flu patients at some 5,000 regularly monitored medical institutions ...
The University of California will soon be granted a potentially valuable patent on the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, according to a document filed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Friday. The decision to grant the patent could further fuel a rivalry ...
Women in South Korea start to question society's unreasonable expectations of beauty
Veering for years between extreme dieting and overeating as she pursued her dream of becoming a fashion model, Park I-seul realized she had a problem. She was not tall and skinny, like typical runway models, nor was she big enough to be a plus-size model. Park, ...
Medical diagnostic services using artificial intelligence are set to be introduced this year in Japan, where the adoption of information technology in health care has been slow, sources said Monday. The private Showa University in Tokyo together with Nagoya University and Cybernet Systems Co. have ...
Brant Ulsh, skeptic on radiation limits, to head EPA radiation panel
The Environmental Protection Agency has appointed a scientist who argues for easing regulations on lower-level radiation exposures to lead the agency's radiation advisory committee. Acting EPA head Andrew Wheeler on Thursday announced the appointment of Brant Ulsh, a health physicist, as one of the EPA's ...
E-cigarettes nearly twice as effective at helping smokers quit than patches or gum, study finds
E-cigarettes are almost twice as effective at helping smokers quit as nicotine replacement treatments such as patches, lozenges and gum, according to the results of a major clinical trial. The study, involving almost 900 smokers, found that 18 percent of e-cigarette users were smoke-free after ...
