Category: 4. Health

Chris Vogelsang has had a long and terrible fight with cancer.

Fourteen years ago, the 70-year-old man was first diagnosed with…

Texas health officials reported 36 new measles cases Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases since late January to 597.

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Statistics suggest that the size of families in many countries is shrinking and a growing number of parents worldwide either willingly or unwillingly end up only having one child. While many psychology studies have explored the…

Alcohol holds a paradoxical place in modern life — celebrated for its ability to enhance social connection — but also associated with health risks. What is increasingly clear is that for those aiming to optimize their long-term health and reduce alcohol health risks, quitting alcohol completely or cutting back…

Most parents agree that talking to their kids about puberty is important—but when and how to start the conversation is often less clear, a new national poll…

Older adults with cancer respond just as well as younger patients to immune checkpoint inhibitors despite age-related immune system differences, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and the Johns Hopkins Convergence Institute.

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A 2024 report on Forbes.com described four challenges that the field of college mental health will likely face in 2025. Some of these challenges have already emerged. For example, last year’s annual survey report by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, which I served as a board member, highlighted the challenge regarding staff recruitment and retention. The report found that 12.5% of all non-trainee clinical…

Susan de Meyer’s horses have different effects on different children. Hyperactive kids learn to be a little quieter around them while nonverbal children are moved to communicate and to bond with them.

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“Tusi,” also known as “tucibí” or “pink cocaine,” is a drug concoction that emerged in Latin America and Europe within the past decade and is becoming increasingly popular in the U.S.

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The head of the hospital service on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion on Sunday called for medical reinforcements to cope with an epidemic of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease.

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