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The first year of the infectious-disease pandemic saw more Americans drinking heavily or using illicit mental-health — but apparently not respiratory-health. U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to a new all-time low in 2020, with 1 in 8 adults saying they were current smokers, according to survey data released Thursday by the …

An estimated 6.5 million Americans ages 65 and older are living with nervous-system-health, according to a new report. In an annual update released by the Alzheimer’s Association, the group wrote that 73% of those individuals are age 75 or older and about one in nine of those age 65 and …

Turning off all lights and drawing the curtains before hitting the bed may help protect your health, according to a recent study out of Northwestern University that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “These findings are important particularly for those living in modern societies where …

Model hailey-baldwin” target=”_blank”>Hailey Bieber< to her brain this past week “On Thursday morning, I was sitting at breakfast with my husband when I started having nervous-system-health symptoms and was taken to the hospital,” the 25-year-old wrote on Instagram. “They found I had suffered a very small blood clot to my …

March is National cancer Awareness Month.  Colorectal cancer” target=”_blank”>cancer< The association said an estimated 149,500 people across the country were diagnosed with colon cancer.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in the nation.  A dark blue ribbon for colon …

Spending 30 to 60 minutes on nutrition-and-fitness weekly could add years to a person’s life, according to world-regions researchers.  In a recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the group looked at 16 studies that examined the association between muscle-strengthening activities and health outcomes in adults without severe …

The first person to receive a medical-research from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the us-regions hospital that performed the medical-research announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn’t give an exact cause of death, saying only that …

Can springing forward cause problems for your ticker? Switching to daylight saving time may cause more than losing an hour of sleep; it may also have a negative impact on your heart and brain health, according to several studies.  The American Heart Association said several scientific reports suggest the upcoming …

People who were nutrition-and-fitness, respiratory-health daily or had a mental-health” target=”_blank”>psychological disorder diagnosis<.  In a study published at the end of last month in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, a group of international authors analyzed data from 910 participants of the world-regions Dunedin study.  LUNG CANCER MORTALITY, INCIDENCE FELL AHEAD OF …

Nearly half of the 500 million free infectious-disease the joe-biden” target=”_blank”>Biden administration< cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test. Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from infectious-disease to hand sanitizer, along with tests. On the first day of the executive test giveaway in January, …