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A recently released child-safety battery designed to reduce the danger from accidental ingestion is showing significant promise, but medical professionals should not alter their management protocols yet. Read More.

Melatonin—a go-to sleep aid for kids and adults alike in many households in America—continues to create media buzz, with conflicting messages that leave people uncertain about its safety. Read More.

Scientists are beginning to explore a hidden world of thousands of food chemicals that go far beyond the nutrients listed on nutrition labels. This “nutritional dark matter” may hold the key to understanding disease risk, healthy aging, and why different diets affect people in dramatically different ways. Read More.

Visualising microplastics inside living tissue without altering or destroying it lays important groundwork for future studies. Read More.

Eating disorders are much more than bulimia and anorexia. Many people – including men, the elderly, and people with obesity – struggle with their relationship with food in harmful ways. Sometimes even treatments like a GLP-1 can exacerbate or uncover a hidden disorder. Read More.

Eating 40 grams of walnuts daily improved sleep quality in young adults. Walnuts have melatonin, which helps you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. Read More.

The largest review ever conducted on opioids for acute pain found that these widely prescribed drugs often deliver only small, short-lived benefits. Read More.

It’s 7:35 a.m. inside Austin’s Fairmont Hotel when the elevator doors open and a fit, tanned man sporting a red-light therapy cap and yellow-tinted glasses steps into a packed, half-asleep car. Read More.

A new oral drug, daraxonrasib, more than doubled median survival for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer in a phase‑3 trial, prompting an FDA‑approved early‑access program and raising hopes for later approval this year. Read More.

Adults accept it as conventional health wisdom that we require eight hours of sleep each night in order to be healthy. Yet an expert on human evolutionary biology recently argued that this might actually be misleading. Read More.

A Nantucket project is testing whether mice with protective antibodies can help slow the spread of Lyme disease Read More.

If you have type 1 diabetes, you probably rely on an insulin pump to regulate your symptoms. But if you use an Omnipod pump, you should double-check that you’re getting the insulin you need Read More.

Early-stage detection yields a five-year survival rate of more than 90% in the US, studies show Read More.

Weight-loss and diabetes drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound may do more than help patients manage blood sugar and obesity Read More.

Nutritionist Nmami Agarwal recommends drinking fennel tea after every meal to manage indigestion. Read More.