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TUESDAY, June 25, 2019 — Many parents think it couldn’t happen to their kids, but the number of children and teens admitted to children’s hospitals for thoughts of self-harm or suicide is alarming. Each year 4,600 young people between the ages of 10 and 24 take their own lives, and 157,000 are treated in emergency […]

— Whether you are bitten by your dog or an unknown one, you must treat the wound without delay. Immediate treatment reduces your risk of infection, says Cleveland Clinic. To treat a dog bite, the clinic suggests: Press on the wound gently to flush…

MONDAY, June 24, 2019 — U.S. veterans with PTSD are twice as likely as the general population to die from suicide, accidents and viral hepatitis, a new study finds. Veterans with PTSD also have a higher risk of death from diabetes and liver disease, according to the study published June 24 in the American Journal […]

MONDAY, June 24, 2019 — Elite athletes’ grueling training regimens may pay off in an unexpected way: The exercise seems to boost levels of a type of gut bacteria that enhances athletic prowess. Researchers found that the bacteria Veillonella were much more common in the guts of marathoners, compared to sedentary people. And the bugs […]

MONDAY, June 24, 2019 — Smartphones have become an essential part of modern medicine, but they might be exposing patients to potentially deadly staph infections, a new study suggests. Tests of cellphones at a Brazilian medical school revealed that 40% carried Staphylococcus aureus, a common cause of hospital infections. Worse, 85% of the bacteria isolated […]

MONDAY, June 24, 2019 — Smoking increases the risk of heart attack in all people, but much more so in young women, a new study shows. British researchers examined data on more than 3,300 cases of acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) that occurred in the Yorkshire region of England between January 2009 and […]

MONDAY, June 24, 2019 — Could America’s favorite morning drink also help fight one of its biggest health issues, obesity? That’s the suggestion from a British study that finds coffee stimulates the human body’s “brown fat,” a heat-generating form of fat that literally burns calories in a process called thermogenesis. “This is the first study […]

MONDAY, June 24, 2019 — Hispanic teens are being driven to anxiety and sleeplessness over the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, even though they are U.S.-born citizens and face no threat of deportation, a new study shows. Nearly half of a group of 16-year-old Hispanic children in the Salinas Valley region of California reported that they […]

MONDAY, June 24, 2019 — More women are getting 3-D mammograms, which spot breast anomalies more accurately than traditional mammograms, a new study shows. But there are big variations in use across the United States, the researchers noted. Three-D…