New Drug May Fight a Deadly Bone Marrow Disorder

TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A recently approved leukemia pill also might help some patients diagnosed with a deadly bone marrow disorder, a new pilot study says.

About 3 in 5 patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) responded to treatment with olutasidenib (Rezlidhia), which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA...

How Accurate Is ChatGPT When Asked About Your Health?

TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — ChatGPT is likely to be hit-or-miss when it comes to figuring out symptoms for a particular illness, a new study says.

The AI program has 49% to 61% accuracy when it comes to identifying symptoms associated with specific diseases, researchers reported recently in the journal iScience....

Freeze-Dried Fruit Recalled From Sam’s Club Over Listeria Risk

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Popular freeze-dried fruit snacks sold at Sam’s Club are being recalled because of possible listeria contamination.

Doehler Dry Ingredient Solutions, LLC is recalling some 15-count boxes of “Member’s Mark Freeze Dried Fruit Variety Pack” after internal testing found the ...

Presidential Fitness Test Returns to U.S. Schools

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Presidential Fitness Test is returning to U.S. schools after more than a decade.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to bring back the program, which aims to improve physical fitness among students. The test was launched in 1956 and ended in 2013.

U.S. Health and...

Couple Welcomes Baby From 1994 Embryo in Rare ‘Embryo Adoption’

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An Ohio couple has welcomed a healthy baby boy from an embryo frozen for more than three decades, setting what doctors believe is a new world record.

Lindsey and Tim Pierce’s son was born last Saturday after developing from an embryo frozen in 1994 — exactly 11,148 days earlier.

A Saliva-Based Test for Breast Cancer Might Be Near

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a small new study, a handheld saliva-sampling device successfully detected breast cancer 100% of the time, researchers said. 

The study only involved 29 saliva samples, and more research is needed. 

However, the results remain “very exciting because this device could im...

MS May Begin Years Earlier Than Thought

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People with multiple sclerosis (MS) begin experiencing new health issues up to 15 years before the classic signs of the illness appear, Canadian research shows.

“MS can be difficult to recognize as many of the earliest signs — like fatigue, headache, pain and mental health concerns ...

U.S. Murder-Suicides Are More Common Than Thought

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Murder-suicides — where a person kills one or more people before killing themselves soon after — are sensational, but very rare.

Or are they? 

New research finds that these tragedies are occurring more often in the United States than has been recognized.  

Many...

An Artificial Sweetener May Hamper Cancer Treatment

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Findings from a study in mice suggest that using a common artificial sweetener, sucralose, could hamper certain immunotherapy treatments in cancer patients. 

However, for folks reluctant to give up the ubiquitous sweetener, the same team of scientists may have found a way around the proble...

Floods Have Big Downstream Effects on People's Health

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Long after floodwaters recede, the impact of flooding on the health of older adults is profound, new research shows. 

Rates of hospitalizations for a range of conditions affecting the skin and nervous system, as well as poisonings, injuries or mental health woes were all elevated duri...

Climate Change Will Send Many More Californians to the ER

MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — California’s emergency departments will be more clogged than ever as climate change pushes daily temperatures higher, a study finds.

But there is one silver lining to the new research, however: Thousands of fewer deaths in California from extreme cold. 

Nevertheless, high tempe...

Scientists Find New Ecosystem in Deepest Trenches of Pacific Ocean

SUNDAY, August 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A scientific expedition into a region of the Pacific Ocean named for Hades, Greek god of the underworld, has uncovered an other-worldly ecosystem 30,000 feet deep.

"It’s a totally new thing that has not been seen before," said Dominic Papineau, an exobiologist at China’s State Key...

Do Millipedes Hold Key to Pain Relief, Parkinson's Treatment?

SATURDAY, August 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — To fend off predators, millipedes release defensive compounds that could one day play a part in treating pain and neurological diseases.

"These compounds are quite complex, so they’re going to take some time to synthesize in the lab," said chemist Emily Meyers, whose research speciali...

New Health Record System Aims to Make Sharing Info Easier, Trump Says

FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — President Donald Trump has introduced a new effort to help Americans more easily share their health records with doctors, using new technology and artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

“Today the dream of easily transportable, electronic medical records finally becomes a reality,” Tru...

Hulk Hogan’s Cause of Death Revealed: Heart Attack at Age 71

FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, Florida officials confirmed Thursday.

The 71-year-old entertainer, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died last week in Clearwater, Florida.

The official cause of death was acute myocardial infarction, the medical term for a heart ...

Justin Timberlake Reveals Lyme Disease Struggle After Tour

FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Singer Justin Timberlake has Lyme disease, a condition he says caused nerve pain, fatigue and other symptoms during his recent tour.

In a post on Instagram Thursday, the 44-year-old pop star said the tick-borne illness left him feeling “relentlessly debilitated, both mentally and physical...

Hearing Loss Can Keep Young People From Education, Jobs

FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hearing loss prevents many young adults from achieving their potential in schooling and careers, new research suggests.

That’s especially true when impaired hearing hits young Black Americans or Hispanic Americans, the study found.

"Hearing problems may make it harder for people t...