Новости за 14.05.2024

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HeathDay News) -- Following decades of declines, drowning deaths are once again climbing in the United States, new government data shows. More than 4,500 people died from drowning each year in 2020 through 2022, 500 more per...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- While some states have moved to severely curb women's access to abortion, including abortion pills, over 8,000 women living in those states are getting the pills by mail each month from states without such...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- High temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere last summer were scorching and frequent enough to make it the hottest summer in two millennia, new research shows. Weather records based on scientific instruments only goes...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- San Francisco is on the verge of passing a ban on "forever chemicals" in the protective clothing firefighters wear while battling blazes. City lawmakers are expected to pass an ordinance on Tuesday that will prohibit...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Semaglutide -- the active ingredient in the blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy -- can produce long-term weight and heart health benefits, a pair of new studies show. Researchers found that overweight and obese...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Having private insurance may not be all it is cracked up to be when it comes to hospital bills, new research warns. In a report published Monday by the nonprofit research institute RAND Corp., researchers discovered that...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Seniors over 80 with acute myeloid leukemia can safely and effectively take the standard targeted therapy for the blood cancer, a new study finds. The oral drug venetoclax is typically given to older AML patients whose...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Melanoma, while rare among Black Americans, is often detected later with devastating consequences, a new study finds. Black people are frequently diagnosed with melanoma at later stages, increasing their risk of death...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Vaping rates among U.S. kids in grades 9 through 12 fell to 5% in 2021, the latest year for which data is available. That's down from a peak of 7.2% of teens who vaped in 2019, a new report finds. However, the 5% vaping...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Night shift work can increase a person’s risk of chronic disease, and a new study reveals one possible explanation for this. It appears that just a few days on a night shift schedule throws off body rhythms tied to...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Women who smoke during pregnancy run a higher risk of their kids becoming overweight or obese, and researchers now think they know one reason why. Children born of moms who smoked while expecting tend to have gut bacteria...

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Babies born by C-section are unlikely to receive protection from a single dose of measles vaccine, a new study finds. A single measles jab is up to 2.6 times more likely to be completely ineffective in C-section babies,...