By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A large new study will follow the health and well-being of thousands of transgender and gender nonconforming young people in the U.K., researchers at King’s College London announced Thursday.The $14 million study will track up to 3,000 children and …
Read More »Florida Officials Warn About Raw Milk After 21 People Are Sickened
By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Health officials in Florida are warning people about the dangers of drinking raw milk after 21 people got sick from products linked to a single farm.The Florida Department of Health said six of the sickened individuals are children under …
Read More »Trump Moves to Bar Abortions at Veterans Affairs Hospitals
By Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration aims to bar U.S. veterans from receiving abortions at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals in cases of incest, rape or when the pregnancy puts their life at risk.The move would revoke abortion access for …
Read More »Elevated INR in Older Adults on Warfarin May Not Be Tied to Risk for Brain Bleeding After Head Trauma
Authors say findings warrant re-examining approach to managing anticoagulation in older adults
Read More »Diet Quality Contributes to Multimorbidity in Older Adults
Inverse associations seen between higher adherence to three diets with annual rate of total chronic disease accumulation
Read More »USPSTF Recommends Screening Adults for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Adults engaged in risky drinking should be provided brief behavioral counseling interventions to reduce use
Read More »Study Estimates Global Burden of Vertically Transmitted Hepatitis C
Regions with the most vertically transmitted HCV infections were Southern Asia, Western Africa, and Eastern Africa
Read More »In-Person Offers Most Effective for Self-Sampling Cervical Cancer Screening
About 12 percent of those who received a self-sampling kit in the mail returned the self-sample
Read More »Avoidable All-Cause Hospitalization, ED Visits Common in Nursing Homes
Among severely impaired and terminally ill nursing home residents, about one-third of all-cause hospitalizations are potentially avoidable
Read More »Study Estimates COVID-19 Vaccinations Prevented More Than 2.5 Million Deaths in 2020 to 2024
Most life-years saved were among people aged 60 years or older; estimates are more conservative than those that focused on the first year of vaccination
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