Category Archives: Health & Wellness
Could you eat this much ice cream after walking 1,100 miles? Some Appalachian Trail hikers try
GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) - Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take ...
Jun 16, 2025
Could you eat this much ice cream after walking 1,100 miles? Some Appalachian Trail hikers try
GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) - Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take ...
Jun 16, 2025
Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical WriterA three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed.With the bene...
Jun 01, 2025
Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical WriterA three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed.With the bene...
Jun 01, 2025
US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen
By MIKE STOBBE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated PressThere were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before - the largest one-year decline ever recorded.An estimated 80,000 peopl...
May 14, 2025
Autism rates in US rise again to 1 in 31 kids, CDC says
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer ATLANTA (AP) - An estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children have autism, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday, marking another jump in a long str...
Apr 15, 2025
The skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for a solution
By SUSAN HAIGH and MARC LEVY Associated PressStates increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get ou...
Apr 06, 2025
Boys with cancer can face infertility as adults. Can storing their stem cells help?
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical WriterWASHINGTON (AP) - A man who battled childhood cancer has received the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells, in a study aimed at restoring the ...
Mar 28, 2025