Health

Tossing in a load of wash at home sounds ordinary and harmless.   But healthcare professionals who wash their work uniforms at home may be unknowingly spreading superbugs, according to a new study.Professor Katie Laird of De Montfort University Leicester, a public university in England, tested home washing machines in a study and found the machines failed to remove potentially harmful material, even after running a hot water setting at the […]

Researchers have developed a new "body clock" tool that calculates people’s biological age — and could even predict the risk of disability or death.The tool, which comes from the University of Washington School of Medicine, uses eight different metrics from a patient’s physical exam and bloodwork to determine the results, according to a press release from UW.The tool’s method — officially named the Health Octo Tool — is detailed in […]

As Parkinson’s cases continue to rise, the race is on for therapies to combat the effects of the disease — and researchers have pinpointed an unlikely source of relief.Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound found in some mushrooms, has been found to improve mood, cognition and motor symptoms in Parkinson’s patients, according to a new study from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).The substance, often referred to as "magic mushrooms," has […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 700 into law Tuesday, eliminating the ability of local governments to add fluoride or other medical additives to the state’s public water supply, a move cheered by supporters of medical freedom and health transparency."Jamming fluoride in the water supply …  is essentially a forced medication," DeSantis said during a news conference in Tallahassee. "At the end of the day, we should all agree that […]

Some researchers are sounding the alarm about a potentially deadly fungus that could spread throughout parts of the U.S., Europe and Asia.The study article, which was published in pre-print (not yet peer-reviewed) in Research Square, claims that "rising global temperatures" could lead to severe infections of Aspergillus, a fungal mold that thrives in warm, damp climates.The resulting infection — called Aspergillosis — can impact humans, livestock and plants, the researchers […]

North Dakota has reported its first case of measles in over a decade.This case — the state's first since 2011 — involves an unvaccinated child, who, according to North Dakota Health and Human Services, may have contracted the virus from an out-of-state visitor.The infected person is currently isolating at home to avoid spreading measles to others, according to the press release.'I'M A DOCTOR: HERE ARE 11 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW […]

Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life.Dimery, who lives in Minnesota, was just 23 when she was diagnosed with colon cancer, which has been rising sharply among teens and young adults in recent years.After experiencing abdominal pain and having abnormal blood work, Dimery underwent a colonoscopy, […]

People who pay more in taxes could be less likely to die from cancer.The link was revealed in a new study published in JAMA Network Open, which aimed to explore how state-level tax revenue impacts cancer screenings and mortality in the U.S.Researchers from The Ohio State University, Emory University in Georgia and the University of Verona in Italy analyzed 1,150 state-years of tax data over a 23-year period, between 1997 […]

Scientists have developed what they believe is the most widely effective antivenom ever — and the secret ingredient came from one man’s blood.In the course of their research, the team found a man, Tim Friede, who had been bitten hundreds of times by 16 species of deadly snakes — the poison lethal enough to kill a horse, according to the scientists — over an 18-year period.Friede had received the bites […]