Maintaining women’s health at different stages of life depends largely on obtaining a balanced set of vitamins, according to medical studies that stressed that healthy food remains the best source, while supplements are used to fill any deficiency when…
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Allowing a screen to babysit your preschool child could blunt their intellectual and emotional development, a new study says. Preschool and kindergarten kids with up to a half-hour daily of unsupervised screen time wind up with poorer communication skills and…
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Poison center calls about the herbal drug kava have surged in the United States in recent years, a new study says. Calls rose 383% between 2011 and 2025 as kava became more widely known and available in the U.S., researchers reported in the U.S. Centers for…
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When it comes to studying sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which is often done on animals, scientists have long faced a major hurdle: Mice are not humans. But researchers from the universities of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia have changed the game by…
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Folks with long COVID face a higher risk for serious heart problems — even younger adults who were never sick enough to be hospitalized, new research suggests. Long COVID is the collection of ongoing symptoms some patients endure after recovering from an acute COVID infection,…
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The influenza vaccine can significantly reduce the risk of a flu-related heart attack or stroke, even among folks who become infected after vaccination, a new study reports. The systemic inflammation caused by a flu infection is known to increase short-term…
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