By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration may cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-related treatments to children and teens.Nine major children’s hospitals recently received letters from federal officials seeking information about procedures such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers and sex-reassignment …
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Breast Cancer Incidence Trends Vary by Age
Variance in trends seen even among older women (aged 85 years and older versus 65 to 74 years), particularly by race and ethnicity and stage at diagnosis
Read More »Supreme Court Won’t Hear Anti-Vaccine Group’s Free Speech Case
By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it will not hear a case brought by a group once led by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that claimed Facebook censored its vaccine-related content.The Children’s Health Defense sued Meta …
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Benefits for cancer- and cardiovascular disease-specific mortality vanish with more than low levels of added sugar and saturated fat
Read More »1970 to 2022 Saw Decrease in Overall Heart Disease Mortality
Decreases seen in mortality for acute MI, ischemic heart disease, while increases seen for mortality from other heart disease subtypes
Read More »Weighted Vests Do Not Prevent Weight Loss-Linked Bone Loss at Hip
Neither weighted vest use nor resistance training mitigates weight loss-linked bone loss in older adults with obesity
Read More »Low-Fiber Diet With High Red Meat Linked to High-Risk Coronary Plaque Features
Lowest tertile of dietary index associated with high-risk plaque features, with waist circumference, triglycerides, hypertension as possible mediators
Read More »Body Fat Percentage Better Predictor of 15-Year Mortality Than BMI
Body fat percentage, waist circumference both significantly associated with 15-year all-cause mortality, heart disease mortality
Read More »Digital Inhaler May Predict Acute COPD Exacerbations
Significant changes seen in physiologic and inhaler use metrics in the 14 days before exacerbation
Read More »Higher Cardiac Marker Levels Tied to Long-Term Cancer Risk
Study reveals no significant differences by race/ethnicity or sex
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