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Your favorite diet soda could have a detrimental effect on your cognitive health, a new study suggests.
In a Brazilian study published in the journal Neurology, participants who consumed the highest amount of artificial sweeteners were found to have «significantly faster declines» in thinking and memory skills.
Researchers determined that the highest-consuming group lost about 1.6 years in extra brain aging, with a 62% faster decline.
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The groups at highest risk were younger adults under 60 and people with diabetes. Those older than 60 did not appear to be affected.
In the study, researchers tracked 12,772 adults averaging 52 years old for an eight-year period. The participants filled out questionnaires about what they ate and drank.
The researchers focused on the consumption of seven artificial sweeteners found in soda, energy drinks, flavored water, yogurt and low-calorie desserts.
The specific sweete..

Cannabis is getting stronger, research has shown — and so are its health risks.
Two new studies raise red flags about how marijuana use may increase paranoia and mental health struggles, especially for people who start using it to cope with anxiety, depression or past trauma.
The first study, published in BMJ Mental Health, looked at more than 3,000 adults who currently or previously used cannabis.
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Researchers found that people who first tried marijuana to deal with pain, stress or depression were far more likely to struggle with paranoia later.
Those who only used it out of curiosity or for fun had the lowest levels of paranoia and anxiety.
They also measured how much people were consuming. On average, participants reported using the equivalent of 10 to 17 joints per week — with today's strains widely reported to be much stronger than in past decades.
According to the American Psychological Association, in the..

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A new study has discovered another way to potentially prevent COVID-19.
Researchers at Saarland University in Germany headed a clinical trial that found a nasal spray could reduce the risk of coronavirus infection by two-thirds.
The phase 2 study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, ran from March 2023 to July 2024 at Saarland University Hospital.
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The 450 healthy adult participants were randomly assigned to receive either the azelastine nasal spray or a placebo, three times per day for 56 days.
The researchers conducted SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen testing twice a week to diagnose infection. People who had symptoms but received negative antigen test results underwent multiple PCR tests for respiratory viruses.
Among the 227 individuals who received the azelastine nasal spray, rates of confirmed COVID infection were «significantly lower» at 2.2%, compared with 6.7% for the placebo group.
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The first artificial intelligence (AI) stethoscope has gone beyond listening to a heartbeat.
Researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust discovered that an AI stethoscope can detect heart failure at an early stage.
The TRICORDER study results, published in BMJ Journals, found that the AI-enabled stethoscope can help doctors identify three heart conditions in just 15 seconds.
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According to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), which partially funded the study, the researchers analyzed data from more than 1.5 million patients, focusing on people with heart failure symptoms like breathlessness, swelling and fatigue.
A total of 12,725 patients were examined with the new AI stethoscope technology. The patients were found to be twice as likely to be diagnosed with heart failure compared to similar patients not examined with the tool.
Patients examined with the stethoscope we..

A little-known disease is spreading in the U.S., primarily in the state of California, health officials warn.
In a new study published in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers state that human cases of Chagas disease have been confirmed in eight states, leading them to recommend that the disease is classified as «endemic.»
«Acknowledging the endemicity of Chagas disease in the United States is crucial for achieving global health goals,» the authors wrote.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a disease as «endemic» when there is a «constant presence and/or usual prevalence» in a population within a specific geographic area — in other words, the «baseline» level of disease within a community.
«Chagas disease (or American trypanosomiasis) is already endemic in South America and Central America, but it has now spread to the Southern U.S., where it is taking hold among ..

Florida’s Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo has announced the Sunshine State is working to end all vaccine mandates.
In a joint press conference on Wednesday with Gov. Ron DeSantis, Ladapo said the Florida Department of Health (FDH), in conjunction with the governor’s office, will end «every last one» of the vaccine mandates for schoolchildren under Florida law.
«Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,» said Ladapo. «Who am I, as a government or anyone else, to tell you what you should put in your body? I don’t have that right. Your body is a gift from God.»
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DeSantis stressed that informed consent is essential, stating that «information given to individuals, where they can then make an informed decision, should be the bedrock of how we function in health and in medicine.»
Eight vaccinations are currently required for children attending childcare, preschool and K–12 schools in Florida, accordi..

GLP-1 agonists — including semaglutides like Ozempic and Wegovy and tirzepatides like Mounjaro and Zepbound — were originally intended to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity.
But in recent months, studies have shown that these popular medications can have numerous other health benefits.
Some have even claimed that GLP-1s could eventually become the new «everything drug.»
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Dr. Angela Fitch, co-founder and chief medical officer of knownwell, a «weight-inclusive» healthcare company based in Boston, said she would caution against labeling any medication as an «everything drug,» but agrees that GLP-1s show promise.
«GLP-1s are currently approved for treating obesity, type 2 diabetes, secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, metabolic associated fatty liver disease, chronic kidney disease in patients with diabetes and sleep apnea,» she told Fox News Digital.
«Further research is necessary to determine their eff..

Beetroot juice, which is rich in nitrates, has been linked to changing the community of bacteria living in the mouth.
Now, a new study has found that drinking this juice could reduce older adults’ blood pressure.
Researchers at the University of Exeter compared the response of both younger and older participants to the juice and published the study in Free Radical Biology and Medicine.
COMMON DAILY VITAMIN SHOWN TO SLOW AGING PROCESS OVER 4-YEAR PERIOD
Thirty-nine participants under age 30, plus 36 individuals in their 60s and 70s, were split into two separate two-week phases.
One group consumed nitrate-rich beetroot juice shots daily, while the other group — a placebo group — received a version without nitrates. Each group had a «wash-out period» between phases to reset their systems.
Researchers practiced bacterial gene sequencing to identify which microbes were present in the participants’ mouths before and after each treatment.
Older adults who drank nitrate-rich beetroot juice had..

Addressing hearing loss early on may significantly reduce the risk of dementia, a recent study found.
Adults with hearing loss who reported wearing hearing aids before they were 70 years old cut their risk of dementia by more than half, compared to those with hearing loss who did not wear hearing devices, according to research recently published in JAMA Neurology.
Participants with hearing loss who wore hearing aids had a 61% lower risk for «incident all-cause dementia,» the researchers wrote.
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Individuals under 70 years old who did not have hearing loss had a 29% lower risk for dementia in comparison to those with untreated hearing loss, according to the study authors.
However, the same benefit was not seen in those 70 years or older at the time of the hearing tests.
Researchers from the University of Texas, University of Pittsburgh, Boston University and several others looked ..