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Teachers and school leaders should break up periods in which pupils are sedentary for extended periods with scheduled and unscheduled “movement breaks,” experts said in a report....Read More

More than one-third of food products advertised to kids, such as sugary cereals and sweet snacks, are not considered healthy dietary options, a report released Tuesday by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health....Read More

A pair of Disney-branded hand sanitizers are being recalled over the presence of either methanol or benzene, the latter of which is classified as a carcinogen, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a statement....Read More

An international team of researchers has identified 75 regions of the human genome associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease, including 42 never before linked with the common form of dementia....Read More

People vaccinated against COVID-19 before or during pregnancy are not at increased risk for having babies with body or functional “anomalies,” or abnormalities, a study published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics found....Read More

As of Friday, just 2.15% of hospital beds nationwide are in use for COVID-19 patients, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services....Read More

Rates of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia among Medicare beneficiaries increased by more than 30% over the past two decades or so, an analysis published Friday by JAMA Health Forum found....Read More

During the surge in cases fueled by the Omicron variant, children age 5 years and younger caught COVID-19 at rates six- to eight-fold higher than those seen with the Delta strain, a JAMA Pediatrics study found....Read More

An international team of researchers on Thursday released the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, nearly 20 years after the Human Genome Project produced its “first draft.”...Read More

White Americans are about 50% more likely to undergo screening for lung cancer than Black Americans, a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found....Read More