Google Hands Open Health Stack To the Linux Foundation

Can lucid dreaming help your mental health? What the evidence says

Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented by tackling modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity, smoking, low education or social isolation, but new research suggests current public health approaches are falling short of driving real behaviour change.

New research looking at 3,734 individuals over ten years in the US-based Health and Retirement Study estimates that roughly 1 in 5 dementia cases could potentially have been averted if everyone had stayed in the normal weight range.

Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training

51% of young Dutch people who use AI discuss personal matters like dating, social situations, and mental health with the chatbot, 23% even share more with the chatbot than they do with their friends and family

Meta says it's facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case

A new study finds that in recent years, K-12 school administrators in the US were more likely than teachers or mental health professionals to experience aggression from parents: Over 4 in 10 were verbally threatened and about 1 in 5 reported they were publicly humiliated or cyberbullied.

A simple preoperative nomogram for predicting high-risk parathyroid lesions: a tool to guide surgical strategy in primary hyperparathyroidism

79-year-old man in eastern Ontario with 2 days of fatigue, chills, generalized weakness and myocarditis, diagnosed with anaplasmosis, the second most common tick-borne disease in Canada, with rapidly rising incidence owing to the expanding geographic distribution of the blacklegged tick.

Researchers flag overlooked impact of cat-borne parasite infecting large portions of the population

Fungi adapting to heat could pose new risks to human health in NC

Dopamine dictates how long sexual drive remains suppressed after stress

Scientists Find Intriguing Link Between Ozempic and Violent Behavior

Microplastics found in over 75% of pet food

“Sitting paradox”: both too little and too much sitting may be linked to higher cardiovascular and mortality risks

Popping a cocktail of supplements every day might be doing you more harm than good

GLP-1 drugs may also have antidepressant properties. In a recent study on mice, GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-like behavior

Aspartame Increases the Risk of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Weight-loss drugs semaglutide or tirzepatide may prevent thousands of knee replacements, study suggests

Five-minute walk every hour offsets sitting harms

Abortion decision in US prompts women’s healthcare providers to become more politically engaged

Plant-Based Diets, Ultra-Processed Foods, and Risks of Mortality and Major Chronic Diseases

Roughly 90-120 minutes of strength training per week linked with a 13% reduced risk of premature death, in study involving three decades’ worth of data from nearly 150,000 adults

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

A healthy plant-based diet may help protect your liver

Research has found four minutes of daily resistance training can quadruple fitness in older adults

Nuts can cut our risk of dementia

Low global physical activity despite two decades of policy progress

New Norwegian data link early grandparenthood to 56% higher respiratory infections in grandmothers and 31% in grandfathers in the first two years

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