FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- People with asthma who vape tend to develop the respiratory disease earlier in life than folks who never vaped, new research shows. Overall, asthmatic adults who said they'd vaped over the past month were over three times as...
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug to treat patients with an advanced form of deadly lung cancer. Importantly, tarlatamab (Imdelltra) is only for patients who have exhausted all other...
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug to treat patients with an advanced form of deadly lung cancer. Importantly, tarlatamab (Imdelltra) is only for patients who have exhausted all other...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, setting the stage for a significant shift in the nation's drug policy.In a proposed rule sent to the federal register, officials...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- Life expectancy around the world is expected to increase by nearly 5 years in men and more than 4 years in women during the next three decades, researchers predict.These increases are expected to be in countries where life...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- Cutting-edge cancer treatments are essentially useless for patients barely clinging to life, a new study shows.Chemotherapies, immunotherapies, targeted therapies and hormone therapies do not improve survival rates in...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- The smell of food is appetizing when you’re hungry. At the same time, it can be a turnoff if you’re full.That’s due to the interaction between two different parts of the brain involving sense of smell and behavior...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- Kids and young adults who use social media for seven or more hours per day have double the risk of taking up vaping or smoking or both, new research shows.The study is based on a survey of almost 11,000 young British people...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- Men are more vulnerable than women to the debilitating effects of diabetes, a new long-term study finds.Overall rates of diabetes are similar between men and women, according to the report published May 16 in the Journal of...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- Sleepaway camp can be a lot of fun for kids, but only if they’re ready for the experience.And that’s the tough part -- figuring out as a parent when a child is ready to stay away from home, and what they’ll need while...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- Mice, rats and other wildlife can pick up bacteria called leptospira from water or soil and excrete it in urine. If your dog contacts any soil or water contaminated by the germ (especially if they have an open wound) they...
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 -- An experimental drug can help patients better live with a genetic condition that causes the heart to enlarge and thicken, a new clinical trial shows.People with the condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), were able to...