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Giving psilocybin — the psychedelic substance found in magic mushrooms — to patients with alcohol use disorder, along with psychotherapy, helped reduce heavy drinking more than psychotherapy alone, new research suggest...Read More

Tattoo ink isn’t regulated in the United States, and new research suggests it may contain potentially cancer-causing dyes, plus tiny particles that may travel n the body and cause harm....Read More

A new study says what people do while they’re sitting matters — and shifting from passive to active sedentary behaviors, such as TV viewing to laptop use, may reduce dementia risk....Read More

An authoritative panel of experts on Tuesday reiterated its call for people between ages 40 and 75 to take statins if they are at high risk for a first heart attack or stroke....Read More

If it’s proven to be safe and effective in large clinical trials, a metabolite of caffeine may prove valuable in slowing the progression of short-sightedness, or myopia, in children....Read More

Use of marijuana and hallucinogens among young adults in the United States reached an all-time high in 2021, the National Institutes of Health reported Monday....Read More

A new study suggests that with the evolution of mutant strains, the mean incubation period of COVID-19 decreased gradually from five days for cases caused by the Alpha variant to 3.42 days for the Omicron variant....Read More

Amid concerns that the moniker monkeypox is misleading at best and racist at worst, the World Health Organization has decided to rename the virus that is causing global suffering....Read More

A rare brain-eating amoeba is suspected in a child’s death in Douglas County Nebraska. The infection most likely happened as the child swam in the Elkhorn River, according to the Nebraska DHSS....Read More

Women and men often may experience very different symptoms for cardiovascular diseases, and this must be better understood to improve treatment, a new report says....Read More