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A good night’s sleep has many proven benefits — potentially including a healthier future for kids.
New research from Penn State University analyzed how childhood sleep patterns could be linked to future substance use.
Researchers at the university found that adolescents who went to bed later and slept fewer hours during their childhood were more likely to have consumed alcohol or marijuana by the age of 15.
‘NAPUCCINO’ TREND: CAFFEINE BEFORE A NAP COULD BE KEY TO BETTER SLEEP
The study, published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology, looked at data of 1,514 children from 20 cities across the U.S., focusing on sleep duration and bedtime in different developmental stages.
Parents involved in the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, from where the data was obtained, recorded their children’s bedtimes at ages 3, 5 and 9, as well as sleep duration at 5 and 9.
The results showed that teens were 45% more likely to try alcohol by age 15 if they had a later bedtime at age 9.
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Ironically, it was a notification on his phone that prompted author and podcaster Carlos Whittaker to embark on a seven-week screen-free journey that would change his life.
Whittaker, who lives in Nashville on a «suburban farm» with his wife, three children and dog, knew he used his phone a lot, but didn't consider it a problem until he sat down and did the math.
After getting an alert that he had averaged seven hours and 23 minutes of daily phone time that particular week, Whittaker realized that if he lived to be 85, he would spend more than a decade of his remaining life on the device.
KEEPING KIDS SAFE: 'WAIT UNTIL 8TH' PLEDGE AIMS TO EMPOWER PARENTS TO RESIST SMARTPHONES FOR CHILDREN
In the summer of 2022, Whittaker embarked on a seven-week journey across the United States, navigating his life without the use of any screens.
He documented the mission in his latest book, «Reconnected: How Seven Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Los..

There may be a «promising new strategy» in combating aggressive forms of prostate cancer, according to a new study.
Researchers at Flinders University and the University of South Australia investigated how the novel drug, CDKI-73, has the potential to tackle drug-resistant prostate cancer.
This drug reportedly «defies conventional therapies,» as noted in the study findings, which were published in the British Journal of Cancer.
MEN'S CANCER DEATHS EXPECTED TO SPIKE MORE THAN 90% BY 2050, STUDY FINDS
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men, following lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).
In 2024, around 299,010 new cases will be diagnosed and more than 35,000 men will die from the disease, per the ACS.
The disease «frequently evolves into aggressive forms that do not respond to standard hormone therapies,» according to Flinders University.
The researchers, including professors Luke Selth and Shudong Wang, targeted cyclin-de..

For people with psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), finding comprehensive treatment that works can be a lifelong battle. Medications are often expensive and hard to access, appointments with specialists can take months to secure, and lifestyle factors that may contribute to the diseases tend to be left out of the clinician-patient conversation entirely.
Ohio-based healthcare company AndHealth believes it doesn’t have to be that way — and is inviting patients with the conditions to help prove it. Through its innovative study, called Project IMPACT, the company aims to demonstrate that addressing underlying causes (like nutrition, stress, or sleep) alongside conventional treatments (like biologic medications) has the potential to stop the progression of or even reverse autoimmune conditions including psoriasis and RA.
«Insurance doesn't reimburse for a lot of time spent talking to patients about how they can participate in their own care and how they can incorporate lifestyle ..

The pandemic’s negative effects on kids and teens — academically, socially and otherwise — have been shown in numerous studies, and now the latest long-term effect appears to be accelerated aging of young brains.
A team of researchers at the University of Washington studied 160 teens between the ages of 9 and 17. They had gathered data in 2018 for a different study on changes in brain structure during adolescence, but the COVID pandemic interrupted that research.
«Once the pandemic was underway, we started to think about which brain measures would allow us to estimate what the pandemic lockdown had done to the brain,» lead author Neva Corrigan, Ph.D., a research scientist at the University of Washington, said in a press release.
COVID VACCINE DISTRUST GROWING AMONG AMERICANS, SURVEY FINDS: ‘SHOULD BE A PERSONAL CHOICE’
«What did it mean for our teens to be at home rather than in their social groups — not at school, not playing sports, not hanging out?»
The researchers found that the p..

Scientists are warning of a new tick-borne disease — which they are calling the Wetland virus (WELV) — that was recently discovered in China.
A member of the Orthonairovirus genus of viruses, WELV previously infected a man in Inner Mongolia, China, in 2019 — but it was not identified until this new study, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine last week.
The 61-year-old man, who was bitted by a tick at a wetland park, sought medical attention for «persistent fever and multiple organ dysfunction,» according to the study.
FIRST CASE OF HUMAN BIRD FLU DIAGNOSED WITHOUT EXPOSURE TO INFECTED ANIMALS, CDC SAYS
A team of researchers from the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology isolated the virus from that patient and later identified it as WELV.
Using laboratory testing, the team went on to detect the virus in 17 other patients in China, whose symptoms included fever, headache, dizziness, muscle pain, fatigue, back pain, arthritis, swollen lymph nodes and ne..

Scientists are warning of a new tick-borne disease called Wetland virus (WELV) that was recently discovered in China.
A member of the orthonairovirus genus of viruses, WELV previously infected a man in Inner Mongolia, China, in 2019, but it was not identified until this new study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week.
The 61-year-old man, who was bitten by a tick at a wetland park, sought medical attention for «persistent fever and multiple organ dysfunction,» according to the study.
FIRST CASE OF HUMAN BIRD FLU DIAGNOSED WITHOUT EXPOSURE TO INFECTED ANIMALS, CDC SAYS
A team of researchers from the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology isolated the virus from that patient and later identified it as WELV.
Using laboratory testing, the team went on to detect the virus in 17 other patients in China whose symptoms included fever, headache, dizziness, muscle pain, fatigue, back pain, arthritis, swollen lymph nodes and neurologic issues, the study..

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
Suicide continues to be a leading cause of death in the U.S., with approximately 49,000 people taking their own lives in 2022.
That's according to a new report released on Sept. 10 — which is World Suicide Prevention Day — by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The report highlighted three county-level factors that contributed to suicide rates — health insurance coverage, household broadband internet access and household income.
SUICIDE RATES REACH ALL-TIME HIGH IN US, PER CDC DATA
«Overall, suicide rates in counties with higher levels of health insurance coverage, household broadband internet access and household income were lower than rates in counties with lower levels of these factors,» the report stated.
Suicide rates were highest among non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native people, males..

Your breath could hold clues to your health, researchers say — and they have developed a «smart mask» to tap into them.
Wei Gao, professor of medical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, led the team that created the EBCare, a mask that analyzes the chemicals in someone’s breath to detect any existing health issues.
The mask is designed to screen for medical conditions like respiratory infections, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and post-COVID infections, according to a press release from Caltech.
YOUR SWEAT COULD HOLD SECRETS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH, RESEARCHERS SAY — HERE’S HOW
EBCare works by cooling the breath to convert it into a liquid, then transports it to sensors to be analyzed for specific biomarkers.
In an email to Fox News Digital, lead researcher Gao noted the mask’s ability to enable «continuous, real-time monitoring of exhaled breath condensate (EBC) in a non-invasive and wearable format.»
«This technology has the po..