An increasing number of adults are being diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Diagnoses have been rising for decades but seem to have accelerated in the last few years. A recent study suggested that more than 15 million adults — roughly 1 in 17 — have been diagnosed with ADHD. The condition always starts in childhood, but [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nothing doctors prescribed controlled Michael Garrity’s dangerously high blood pressure — until they zapped away some nerves on his kidneys. If that sounds weird, well, kidneys help regulate blood pressure in part through signals from certain nerves. The new treatment disrupts overactive renal nerves. “My blood pressure would spike and I’d run [...]
“Particularly Dangerous Situation,” or PDS, warnings were first used to warn of tornado outbreaks in the Midwest. More than a decade ago, three meteorologists proposed expanding their use to disasters such as ice storms, floods and hurricanes, and now they are being used to warn of wildfires. “It catches the attention, it really heightens that [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A century ago, iodine deficiency affected kids across large swaths of the country. It mostly disappeared after some food makers started adding it to table salt, bread and some other foods, in one of the great public health success stories of the 20th century. Yet today, people are getting less iodine [...]
JARWENG, South Sudan (AP) — Noble Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world’s poorest people. Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as much as three [...]
The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and was projected to be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released this week. The 0.9 percent increase in 2024 was a slight slowdown from 2023, when the world population grew by 75 million people. In [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cosmetic companies would have to take extra steps to ensure that any products containing talc are free of asbestos under a federal rule proposed last week. The proposal from the Food and Drug Administration and mandated by Congress is intended to reassure consumers about the safety of makeup, baby powder and other [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The decision to add fluoride to drinking water rests with state and local officials, and fights are cropping up nationwide. Communities in Florida, Texas, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming and elsewhere have debated the idea in recent months — the total number is in the dozens, with several deciding to stop adding it [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are moving to phase out the leading decongestant found in hundreds of over-the-counter medicines, concluding that it doesn’t actually relieve nasal congestion. Phenylephrine is used in popular versions of Sudafed, Dayquil and other medications, but experts have long questioned its effectiveness. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration formally proposed revoking [...]
New research from The Ohio State University suggests the best way to deal with a narcissistic individual — whether at work or in one’s personal life — is to disengage completely from the individual. According to Ohio State psychology professor Amy Brunell, who has studied the subject for more than 20 years, the best strategy [...]