Studies

Intermittent fasting muscle loss

Intermittent fasting, a popular weight loss method, may have a big downside

Women often don't receive aggressive care for heart attacks – unlike men

Women Heart Attacks Signs

Children's Health

Teenagers at higher risk for COVID-19 than young children, CDC finds

Children COVID-19 risk

Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine the latest to enter late-stage trials

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

Dogs could help destroy spotted lanternfly egg masses across Pennsylvania, study says

upenn spotted lanternflies study dogs

TV ads may be contributing to treatment disparities for psoriasis, eczema

Psoriasis Eczema TV Ads

Children's Health

MIS-C may be leaving children with heart damage, CHOP researchers find

MIS-C Myocarditis Children

Self-care, social support key to good mental health as pandemic drags along

COVID-19 mental health

COVID-19 pandemic causing surge in chronic kidney disease

Kidney health and COVID

People with substance use disorder need action plans to mitigate COVID-19 risk, addiction experts say

COVID-19 Addiction

AstraZeneca, Oxford to resume human testing of COVID-19 vaccine in the U.K.

astrazeneca resume trials vaccine

Millennial caretakers at greater risk of stress-related conditions, study finds

BCBS caregiving report

AstraZeneca could resume COVID-19 vaccine trials next week

AstraZeneca vaccine clinical trials

Penn researchers advance potential cure for type 1 diabetes

Penn Diabetes Islet

Flu shots given to pregnant women do not increase risk of autism, study finds

Flu vaccination and autism risk

Sleep experts: Abolishing daylight saving time will benefit public health

daylight saving time

Steroids reduce death rate of critically ill COVID-19 patients, WHO analysis says

Steroid use for COVID-19

COVID-19 antibodies last longer than previous research showed

COVID-19 antibodies

Cell phone location data could guide responses to future COVID-19 outbreaks

Work from home during COVID

A phone app may effectively treat bulimia and binge eating disorders

Eating Disorder Phone App

Excessive, high-dose opioids commonly prescribed after knee surgery, Penn study finds

Penn Knees Opioids

Long naps may be bad for your heart, study finds

Napping heart disease

Warning signs may appear in the weeks before sudden cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest warning signs

Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means you get less sick

Cloth Masks Protection

CHOP researchers see sense of altruism in people's COVID-19 worries

COVID-19 worries.jpg

Opioid use, especially in large doses, can cause deafness, Rutgers study finds

Opioid use deafness

To address gender disparities in heart failure studies, add more female researchers

Women Heart Failure Research

Your smartphone soon may be able to tell if you're drunk

smartphone drunk accelerometer

U.S. scientists making coronavirus strain for potential human challenge trials

NIAID coronavirus strain

Why are female runners at greater risk for stress fractures? The answer may be multifold

$Stress fractures female runners$

Vaping increases COVID-19 risk among teens, young adults, Stanford study finds

Vaping COVID-19

People with atrial fibrillation are living longer – but early detection still crucial

atrial fibrillation

Dual surgery boosts heart transplant chances for patients with obesity

Obesity heart transplant eligibility

Whole grain product labels causing frequent confusion among consumers

Whole grain labels

Even a single alcoholic drink during early pregnancy increases miscarriage risk

Alcohol use pregnancy

Twitter posts show that people are profoundly sad – and are visiting parks to cheer up

COVID-19 Parks Benefits

Philly health commissioner 'concerned' about cold weather effect on coronavirus

Philly Cold COVID-19

Suicide-related incidents involving OTC painkillers are surging, study finds

OTC drugs suicide

Obesity reduces blood flow to the brain, increasing risk to Alzheimer's disease

Brain Scans Obesity

Cancer diagnoses have plummeted amid the COVID-19 pandemic – and doctors are worried

Cancer diagnoses COVID-19

Eli Lilly launching COVID-19 treatment trial in nursing homes

Eli Lilly COVID-19 treatment

New blood test can detect Alzheimer's 20 years before symptoms show, study finds

New Alzheimer's blood test

Cinnamon supplements may slow advancement of type 2 diabetes

Cinnamon supplement type 2 diabetes

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