Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New data shows that banning abortion would lead to more maternal deaths than previously thought, a critical finding less than a week after the Supreme Court …
How effective are masks during a COVID wave?
CC BY-ND Health departments are predicting another COVID surge related, in part, to more easily transmitted new variants and waning immunity. Given COVID cases are rising and likely underestimated, Chief …
Plant power: Using diet to lower cancer risk
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The choices you make at the grocery store have a bigger impact than just your dinner plans. Filling your plate with foods that are grown in …
Low iron is a health risk made worse by COVID. How to get more without reaching for supplements
Credit: Shutterstock “Beauty is an iron mine,” once remarked the Australian mining magnate, Gina Reinhart. She was talking about a precious resource, but iron is also profoundly important to living …
Does your loved one have an eating disorder? Look for these 7 signs
Roughly 30 million Americans have an eating disorder in their lifetime, and calls to a nationwide support group have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March 2020 and October 2021, …
CDC: New listeria outbreak tied to 23 illnesses, 1 death
One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin, health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not …
Know the signs of heat stroke and exhaustion
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Heat can be deadly. As summer temperatures climb—and as climate change contributes to more 100-degree days each year—heat illnesses become a more serious risk, particularly for …
Muting your phone may cause more stress, not less
Are you plagued by FOMO—”fear of missing out”? Then silencing your smartphone may not be the stress-buster you think it is. That’s the takeaway from a new study that found …
Lost in space: Astronauts struggle to regain bone density
The sudden weightlessness of space results in rapid bone loss for astronauts. Astronauts lose decades’ worth of bone mass in space that many do not recover even after a year …
What science says about the best ways to cool down
Heatwaves can leave you desperate to cool down. Credit: Shutterstock We spend most of the year complaining that Britain is too cold and wet but gripe with just as much …