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Ground beef that was distributed nationwide may be contaminated with E. coli, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. In a public health alert issued Wednesday, the agency said the one-pound, vacuum-packed packages of “ORGANIC RANCHER ORGANIC GROUND BEEF 85% LEAN 15% FAT” were produced …

New research suggests that removing fluoride from public water would increase dental care costs and tooth decay for children across the United States.  The study, published Friday in the JAMA Health Forum, used a nationally representative sample of 8,484 children aged 0 to 19 from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination …

Intermittent fasting has long been debated as a weight loss technique. Now a new study looks at how effective it is compared to daily calorie counting. In the study, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers monitored the weight changes among 125 participants in two groups: those who …

Reena Caprario is used to alarming symptoms. The 55-year-old mother of two was diagnosed with lung cancer in late 2023, and has a history of diabetes.  She had surgery to remove Stage I cancer in late 2023, and her diabetes was well managed, so Caprario didn’t think anything of it …

Breaking out the tissues? It’s that time of year! But what kind of sickness do your symptoms point to? As the weather changes, we can start feeling under the weather too — but while each illness has a typical set of symptoms, it’s important to understand you can’t diagnose on …

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in specialty care? That’s not routine, at least not yet. Increasingly, though, nurse practitioners and physician assistants …

A healthy, balanced diet is key to daily comfort and well-being, and it’s especially important for people with inflammatory bowel disorders like ulcerative colitis. For his own patients dealing with this condition, Dr. David Hudesman, a gastroenterologist and co-director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at NYU Langone, recommends a …

“Toddler milks,” powdered drink mixes or formulas marketed for children up to age 3, are unregulated and unnecessary, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. In the report published Friday, the pediatrician group warned these older infant-young child formulas — known as OIYCFs — are not …

Marian Reven is a professor of clinical education at West Virginia University. The history of using essential oils and their aromas to improve health and well-being dates back thousands of years. Like today, patients would inhale or topically apply these oils, which were typically extracted from plants – from leaves to flowers …

Temperatures continue to set records across the U.S. — and the extreme heat can have a life-threatening impact on your body. More than a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings over the past week as a blistering heat wave baked much of nation, with day …