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Fewer than half of California pharmacies provided disposal instructions to patients that met current U.S. FDA guidelines, and just 10 percent followed the agency’s preferred recommendation to take back unused medications...Read More

In results published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers noted that whole milk-drinking kids were 40 percent less likely to have an unhealthy weight than their peers who consumed reduced-fat milk....Read More

Research based on ultrasound scans suggests that pregnant women who were exposed to higher levels of persistent organic pollutants, or POPs, had slightly smaller fetuses than women not exposed to the chemicals....Read More

Higher levels of 3-phenoxybenzoic acid in those exposed to pyrethroid-based products likely contributes to a roughly 50 percent increase in risk for death from heart disease or cancer....Read More

Researchers noted that teenage boys who witnessed their peers abusing women and girls are significantly more likely to bully and fight with others, as well as behave abusively toward females....Read More

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest FluView report, released Friday, estimates that 4.6 million Americans have been sickened with the flu so far this season....Read More

Researchers comparing opioid prescribing levels among surgeons before and after the implementation of new laws in Massachusetts and Connecticut found they were at least somewhat effective at reductions....Read More

In findings published Friday, scientists at the University of Toronto describe a key protein called Importin-11, which they believe supports the growth of colorectal tumors....Read More

In findings published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers were able to predict attention problems, as well as mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, in young grade school children using functional MRI....Read More

People who engaged in physical activity as recommended by the NIH were able to reduce their risk for colon and breast cancers, as well as endometrial cancer, kidney cancer, myeloma, liver cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma....Read More