Words Used During Prenatal Ultrasound Might Affect Parenting Later

An ultrasound is typically a parent-to-be’s first glimpse of their child. 

New research suggests that the words hospital staff use to describe the fetus during an ultrasound can have an impact on later parenting — for good or ill.

For example, if an ultrasound’s poor quality is blamed on an “uncooperative...

Dementia Diagnosis Typically Comes 3.5 Years After Symptoms

It takes an average of three-and-a-half years for typical dementia symptoms to lead to a diagnosis, a new report finds.

Diagnosis often comes even later for early-onset dementias.

Speeding up the process is important, because “timely diagnosis can improve access to treatments and for some people prolong the time living with mil...

Is It Chronic Fatigue? Listen to Your Gut, Research Suggests

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be guiding doctors towards a gut-focused means of accurately diagnosing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), new research shows.

The illness appears to disrupt relationships between a person’s gut microbiome, immune system and metabolism, explained a team led by Julia Oh. She’s a microbiologist and p...

Most Liver Cancers Are Preventable, Study Says

Liver cancer: In most cases, it doesn’t have to happen, a new global study finds.

Research suggests that 60% of cases of this often deadly disease are preventable by avoiding or treating big risk factors. 

Those risk factors include viral hepatitis infection, alcohol misuse or a dangerous, obesity-linked buildup of fat in ...

RFK Jr. May Remove Top Panel on Preventive Services Task Force

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering removing all 16 members of an advisory group that helps decide which preventive services, like cancer screenings and HIV medications, should be fully covered by insurance.

The group, known as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, is made up of doctors, nurses and public health e...

Boy Dies From Brain-Eating Amoeba After Swimming in S.C. Lake

A 12-year-old South Carolina boy has died after being infected by a rare, brain-eating amoeba found in freshwater, his family’s lawyer said.

Middle school student Jaysen Carr died July 18 after swimming in Lake Murray, a large reservoir near Columbia, S.C., according to a Facebook post from the law office of Tyler D. Bailey.

Do...