WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 — What's even more nerve-wracking than paying taxes?The holidays, according to a majority of Americans, who say it takes them weeks to recover from seasonal stress. "The holidays are an easy time to justify putting...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 -- The new COVID variant known as JN.1 was named a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization on Tuesday, which means health officials are now closely tracking its rapid spread across the globe.So far, the...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 -- Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress are common among people caring for the victim of a recent stroke, a new study has found.Nearly 30% of caregivers of severe stroke patients experience stress and emotional...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 -- Beyond a myriad of other consequences, childhood trauma appears to raise the specter of chronic pain in adulthood, new research shows.Researchers pored over 75 years' worth of data involving more than 826,000 people....
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 -- Long left to the fringes of the recreational drug culture, psilocybin -- the hallucinatory ingredient in "magic mushrooms" — has recently been making inroads as a legitimate (and fast-acting) antidepressant.Research...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 -- Many patients with advanced colon cancers who are successfully treated with immunotherapy and then stop those treatments appear to face little risk of tumor progression two years later.That's the main finding from a...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 -- Exposure to a common chemical group found in many household products may delay or even prevent a woman from becoming pregnant, a new study says.Phthalates can lower a woman’s odds of becoming pregnant by up to 18% in...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 -- Early research in mice could be getting closer to the roots of what causes Parkinson's disease.A "pathological" form of a common brain protein, alpha-synuclein, could play a role in the death of dopamine-rich brain...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 — Warmer weather linked to climate change is likely to cause rampaging clouds of mosquitos in the future, a new study forecasts.Rising temperatures can make it tougher for the predators that feast on mosquito larvae to...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 -- Women struggling with fertility and using in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive sometimes turn to supplements for help.Unfortunately, a new study finds only weak evidence to support that strategy. In contrast,...