Category: Fox News Health

With 37.3 million people in the U.S. living with diabetes — 8.5 million of whom are undiagnosed, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the disease is one of the…

Scientists say they’ve found a way to turn seaweed into “super seaweed” by increasing its health and medicinal value, according to a report from SWNS.  The researchers are hoping the “boosted” seaweed…

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that older individuals and those with weakened immune systems are eligible for another dose of the updated COVID-19 booster. According to the FDA’s announcement,…

Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year high spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and high prices, United Nations humanitarian agencies…

Argentine, fighting one of its worst outbreaks of dengue in recent years, is sterilizing mosquitoes using radiation that alters their DNA before releasing them into the wild. The South American country has…

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot from OpenAI, could potentially rival Google one day as an online health resource, many people say — but how reliable are its responses right now? Researchers from…

During the first year of the COVID pandemic, as people were stuck at home and were less likely to visit their primary doctors for preventative care, a study found that new cancer…

The number of people serving as sole caregivers for other adults is growing.  In 2020, 53 million people in the U.S. provided unpaid care to an adult, according to the National Alliance…

A contract worker at the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, Michigan, has died from an ongoing fungal outbreak that may have infected nearly 100 employees with blastomycosis, according to a press release…

Hibernating bears can’t help us escape long plane flights or unforgiving winters — but they may help us prevent blood clots. The bears, during hibernation, prevent blood clots in their own bodies by…

Seeing the disappointment on his daughter’s face because, at 400 pounds, her dad couldn’t play with her, was the fuel one father needed to turn his life around after 25 years. “I…

An outbreak of avian influenza in birds that has led to the death and culling of tens of thousands of domestic and wild birds in Montana, has also infected at least a…

While a breast cancer vaccine is not yet approved for widespread use, there are trials underway — including one at Cleveland Clinic, where 46-year-old Jennifer Davis of Ohio was the first person…

An international group of researchers has discovered a new tool that can reveal a key pathology of Parkinson’s disease in brain and body cells.  The identification of the new biomarker, known as…

A single hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, reported that it has seen 30 infant deaths due to unsafe sleeping conditions since January 2022, according to a press release issued last week from…

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America’s medical community appears to be embracing artificial intelligence products in an effort to speed up patient care and prevent burnout among health care professionals. AI technology is already rolling out in…

A Chinese woman has become the first person to die from a type of bird flu that is rare in humans, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, but the strain does not…

Up to one million smokers will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for “vapes”, with pregnant women offered financial incentives to make the change in what will be a world first, the British…

Recent artificial intelligence (AI) technology has the ability to accurately predict an individual’s future lung cancer risk, according to researchers.  In a study published earlier this year, a team of international researchers…