Older Coloradans nearly back to pre-pandemic death rates, but middle-aged people dying younger than expected

The more unpredictable an environment is for children, the more likely they are to exhibit mental and physical health issues when they hit their teenage and early adulthood years, according to new University of Georgia research.

At a typical pediatric visit, parents and clinicians examine where a child falls on growth charts that compare their height and weight to national averages.

Despite an uptick in recent cases, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths is just about at new lows, according to the most recent data.

While overall dental health among young children in the U.S. has improved over the last two decades, adolescents have not experienced the same gains. A recent study in Western New York led by Rubelisa Oliveira, DDS, assistant professor at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, is uncovering the reasons why.

Hormones affect human physical functions, behavior and mental well-being, with testosterone, a primary androgen hormone, playing a vital role in shaping male social cognition and behavior. A research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has conducted interdisciplinary research to uncover the neurocognitive correlates of testosterone in the brain function of young men, and their impact on social behavior. The findings provide valuable insights into potential applications of testosterone therapy in clinical and mental health care.

Evidence suggests as many as 40% of adults with cancer turn to marijuana—more properly known as cannabis—to manage symptoms like pain, nausea and anxiety, and many want guidance from their physicians. Yet a new national study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) finds that most oncologists-in-training, or fellows, feel underprepared to unprepared to manage this increasingly common aspect of their patients' care.

A Monash University-led study into commercially available foods for infants and young children has found them to be promoted as low-cost and "healthy," despite often not conforming to nutritional guidelines.

Harvard Medical School investigators have discovered that U.S. surgeons have a cancer mortality rate more than two times that of nonsurgeon physicians and around 20% higher than most non-physician workers. While still maintaining overall lower than non-physician death rates, the unexpectedly high cancer rates might shed light on work-related risks.

As summer temperatures soar and school sports programs ramp up conditioning practices, heat-related illnesses like dehydration, heat exhaustion, and even heat stroke become serious concerns—especially for student-athletes. According to Ian Klein, an exercise physiologist and associate professor at OHIO, understanding how the body reacts to extreme heat and how to prepare for it is critical to preventing dangerous health outcomes.

A surprising new drug combo—including a compound found in chocolate—has outperformed Tamiflu in fighting the flu, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A Georgia woman declared brain-dead and kept on life support for more than three months because she was pregnant was removed from a ventilator in June and died, days after doctors delivered her 1-pound, 13-ounce baby by emergency cesarean section. The baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit.

With heat advisories blanketing the eastern half of the U.S., air conditioners are once again working over time as essential resources to keep millions cool. But they're unevenly distributed: Many poor households are unable to afford them.

Wildfire smoke has been easy to spot in Minnesota this week, coating the Twin Cities in a brownish haze that obscured the downtown skylines. But experts in lung health are more concerned about the particles you can't see.

Young California residents who arrived in the U.S. as children without legal permission are reeling in the wake of a new policy stripping them of health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

New Hampshire has become the first state to require doctors and medical staff to sterilize patients who request it.

There are relatively large regional differences in Sweden in the proportion of newborns receiving antibiotics for suspected sepsis, according to a study from the University of Gothenburg. The researchers want to call attention to overuse as well as highlight good examples.

Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Bonner has been working 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past four years, while attending and paying for college to finish her prerequisites for medical school.

Novel imaging research indicates that young adults with a higher genetic risk for depression showed less brain activity in several areas when responding to rewards and punishments. The study also uncovered notable differences between men and women.