Freeze-Dried Fruit Recalled From Sam’s Club Over Listeria Risk

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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Popular freeze-dried fruit snacks sold at Sam’s Club are being recalled because of possible listeria contamination.

Doehler Dry Ingredient Solutions, LLC is recalling some 15-count boxes of “Member’s Mark Freeze Dried Fruit Variety Pack” after int...

Presidential Fitness Test Returns to U.S. Schools

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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The Presidential Fitness Test is returning to U.S. schools after more than a decade.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to bring back the program, which aims to improve physical fitness among students. The test was launched in 1956 and ended in 201...

Couple Welcomes Baby From 1994 Embryo in Rare ‘Embryo Adoption’

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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An Ohio couple has welcomed a healthy baby boy from an embryo frozen for more than three decades, setting what doctors believe is a new world record.

Lindsey and Tim Pierce’s son was born last Saturday after developing from an embryo frozen in 1994 — exactly ...

A Saliva-Based Test for Breast Cancer Might Be Near

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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In a small new study, a handheld saliva-sampling device successfully detected breast cancer 100% of the time, researchers said. 

The study only involved 29 saliva samples, and more research is needed. 

However, the results remain “very exciting beca...

MS May Begin Years Earlier Than Thought

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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People with multiple sclerosis (MS) begin experiencing new health issues up to 15 years before the classic signs of the illness appear, Canadian research shows.

“MS can be difficult to recognize as many of the earliest signs — like fatigue, headache, pain and...

U.S. Murder-Suicides Are More Common Than Thought

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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Murder-suicides — where a person kills one or more people before killing themselves soon after — are sensational, but very rare.

Or are they? 

New research finds that these tragedies are occurring more often in the United States than has been recog...

An Artificial Sweetener May Hamper Cancer Treatment

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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Findings from a study in mice suggest that using a common artificial sweetener, sucralose, could hamper certain immunotherapy treatments in cancer patients. 

However, for folks reluctant to give up the ubiquitous sweetener, the same team of scientists may have found...

Floods Have Big Downstream Effects on People's Health

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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Long after floodwaters recede, the impact of flooding on the health of older adults is profound, new research shows. 

Rates of hospitalizations for a range of conditions affecting the skin and nervous system, as well as poisonings, injuries or mental health woes&nbs...

Climate Change Will Send Many More Californians to the ER

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 4, 2025
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California’s emergency departments will be more clogged than ever as climate change pushes daily temperatures higher, a study finds.

But there is one silver lining to the new research, however: Thousands of fewer deaths in California from extreme cold. 

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Scientists Find New Ecosystem in Deepest Trenches of Pacific Ocean

• Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
• August 3, 2025
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A scientific expedition into a region of the Pacific Ocean named for Hades, Greek god of the underworld, has uncovered an other-worldly ecosystem 30,000 feet deep.

"It’s a totally new thing that has not been seen before," said Dominic Papineau, an exobiologist at C...

Do Millipedes Hold Key to Pain Relief, Parkinson's Treatment?

• Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
• August 2, 2025
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To fend off predators, millipedes release defensive compounds that could one day play a part in treating pain and neurological diseases.

"These compounds are quite complex, so they’re going to take some time to synthesize in the lab," said chemist Emily Meyers, who...

New Health Record System Aims to Make Sharing Info Easier, Trump Says

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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President Donald Trump has introduced a new effort to help Americans more easily share their health records with doctors, using new technology and artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

“Today the dream of easily transportable, electronic medical records finally becom...

Hulk Hogan’s Cause of Death Revealed: Heart Attack at Age 71

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, Florida officials confirmed Thursday.

The 71-year-old entertainer, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died last week in Clearwater, Florida.

The official cause of death was acute myocardial infarction, the m...

Justin Timberlake Reveals Lyme Disease Struggle After Tour

• I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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Singer Justin Timberlake has Lyme disease, a condition he says caused nerve pain, fatigue and other symptoms during his recent tour.

In a post on Instagram Thursday, the 44-year-old pop star said the tick-borne illness left him feeling “relentlessly debilitated, bo...

Hearing Loss Can Keep Young People From Education, Jobs

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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Hearing loss prevents many young adults from achieving their potential in schooling and careers, new research suggests.

That’s especially true when impaired hearing hits young Black Americans or Hispanic Americans, the study found.

"Hearing problems may make ...

Are Some 'Low-Grade' Prostate Cancers More Deadly Than Thought?

• August 1, 2025
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Men diagnosed with what are known as Grade Group one (GG1) prostate tumors are often told they don’t require treatment, only “watchful waiting,” because GG1 cancers are at low risk of spreading.

There’s even been talk among experts of not calling ...

Heavy Weed Use Brings High Risk for Oral Cancers

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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Folks who smoke a lot of marijuana could be facing a more than four-fold odds of developing an oral cancer, new research suggests.

“Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco smoke, which have known damaging effects on the epit...

Coming Soon: An At-Home Patch to Spot Skin Cancers?

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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Someday, you might apply a small patch onto your skin to find out whether that odd little spot is a cancer or not. 

That’s the hope from a new technology being developed by researchers at the University of Michigan.

The tiny silicone patch is embedded wi...

Deaths to Youths Inhaling 'Laughing Gas' Are Soaring

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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It’s no laughing matter: Kids and teens across America are increasingly inhaling nitrous oxide, better known as “laughing gas,” to get high. 

Too often, this ends in tragedy.

U.S. deaths linked to misuse of the common, legal inhalant climbed ...

When Local Homicide Rates Rise, Suicides Rise Soon After

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• August 1, 2025
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There may be a connection between a community’s homicide and suicide rates: When murder rates rise, there’s typically a local uptick in suicides a year later, new U.S. research shows.

These trends were especially strong for gun-related incidents, according to...