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Limiting Sugar Before Age Two Linked to Lower Dementia Risk, Two New Studies Find

New Delhi, July 30 -- GUANGZHOU - The British children who spent their first years under wartime food rationing never gave much thought to what they were not eating. Seventy years later, they are deve... Read More


FTC, California and Utah Sue Hims & Hers for Sharing Patient Health Data With Meta and Snap

New Delhi, July 30 -- SAN FRANCISCO - For millions of Americans seeking treatment for conditions they would not discuss in a doctor's office lobby, the appeal of telehealth has always been privacy. Fe... Read More


Illinois Becomes First State to Formally Classify Gambling Disorder as an Addiction

SPRINGFIELD, July 30 -- For the more than one million Illinoisans estimated to live with gambling disorder, last Friday carried a legal inflection point that advocates have sought for years, alongside... Read More


Up to Five Cups of Coffee Daily May Lower Heart Disease Risk, AHA Says

New Delhi, July 22 -- is it good for you, bad for you, or simply a habit too entrenched to examine honestly? The American Heart Association, in a formal scientific statement published this week in the... Read More


One in Three People Globally Cannot Afford a Healthy Diet, UN Reports

ROME, July 22 -- One in three people around the world cannot afford a healthy diet, the United Nations reported this week, in an annual assessment of global food security that found structural barrier... Read More


Russian Scientists Develop Blood Algorithm That Tells TB From Sarcoidosis at 90% Accuracy

New Delhi, July 19 -- ST. PETERSBURG - For a patient in a high-burden country presenting with a chronic cough and inflamed lymph nodes, the next step is imaging, then often a biopsy, and then a wait t... Read More


Manhattan's Upper East Side Legionnaires' Outbreak Claims First Life as Cases Reach 67

New Delhi, July 18 -- NEW YORK - New York City's health commissioner announced Thursday that one person has died in connection with the Legionnaires' disease cluster spreading through the Upper East S... Read More


Taco Bell Pulls Lettuce From Five States as Cyclospora Outbreak Sickens Nearly 7,000

New Delhi, July 17 -- LANSING - The watery diarrhea started without warning. For Michigan residents who sought emergency care in recent weeks, the culprit turned out to be a microscopic parasite calle... Read More


FDA Approves Merck's Lipfendra, First Oral PCSK9 Drug to Match Injectables

New Delhi, July 17 -- a biweekly or monthly injection that most patients eventually abandon. Fear of needles accounts for some of that dropout. Cost and inconvenience account for more, and insurers ha... Read More


Ebola Death Toll in DR Congo Passes 700 as Outbreak Spreads to Two New Provinces

New Delhi, July 13 -- The Ebola outbreak that has killed 702 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reached Tshopo province Saturday - whose capital, Kisangani, is one of the country's largest... Read More