Roanoke, Virginia — Ten-year-old Autumn Bushman of Salem brimmed with energy, but her mother says school bullying over braces and late-night phone use shadowed her final years. Autumn died by suicide on March 21, after looking at her smartphone in bed, according to records cited by her mother. A Virginia...
A four-year study in Southern California found that 18% of more than 2,300 urinary tract infections were linked to E. coli strains also detected in local grocery meat, especially turkey and chicken, with pork and beef trailing. Framing UTIs as a food safety issue, researchers reported a 60% higher risk...
After a drunken girls’ weekend at Butlin’s in Minehead, Charlotte Morjaria, 31, went to hospital fearing a rib injury from a game of tag. Instead, doctors found a 2.5-inch tumor on her left kidney, later diagnosed as stage-one TFE3 renal cell carcinoma. The Newport mother of one, who endured a...
On The Kardashians’ season 7 premiere, Kim Kardashian reveals an MRI detected “a little” brain aneurysm and says doctors chalked it up to stress. In footage, she breaks down over bar exam struggles and, tearfully, over her divorce from Kanye “Ye” West, which she has blamed for the stress. “I’m...
New research in Neurology Open Access ties oral health to brain changes and stroke risk. Adults with gum disease were more likely to show white-matter damage, and a second study led by Dr. Souvik Sen found that having both gum disease and cavities was linked to an 86% higher stroke...
Preliminary research in Nature suggests Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 shots may strengthen checkpoint inhibitor therapy for advanced lung and skin cancers. Reviewing nearly 1,000 cases at MD Anderson, researchers from Houston and the University of Florida found patients vaccinated within 100 days of starting treatment lived longer; vaccinated lung cancer...
Women across the U.S. are turning to high-dose testosterone—often from med-spas and pellet implants—seeking energy and revived libido despite no FDA-approved product for women and scant long-term data. Many describe dramatic boosts to desire, focus and productivity; some say it transformed relationships. Others report unsettling effects, from hair loss and...
The federal shutdown has frozen national respiratory virus surveillance, leaving the CDC’s flu, Covid-19 and RSV reports weeks out of date just as activity rises. Measles tracking continues, but key tools like FluView, RESP-NET and the Respiratory Illness Data Channel are paused, creating blind spots for hospitals, states and the...
Researchers from King’s College London and the University of Oxford have, for the first time, ranked the physical side effects of 30 antidepressants across 151 studies and 58,500 patients in the first eight weeks. They found large differences: weight shifts from a 2.4kg drop with agomelatine to nearly 2kg gain...
TV icon Bryant Gumbel, 77, is being treated at a New York hospital after a reported medical emergency. TMZ says he was rushed from his Manhattan apartment Monday night, placed on a gurney by first responders, and remained hospitalized Tuesday afternoon. Precise details were not disclosed, though a family member...
