Amanda MacMillan

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Here's Everything You Need to Know About Gut Health

The bacteria in your stomach may influence immunity, anxiety, and disease.

By Amanda MacMillan

Childhood Opioid Overdoses Nearly Doubled in Last 10 Years

Child hospitalizations due to opioid overdoses nearly doubled between 2004 and 2015, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. Attempts to curb opioid use among adults have not curtailed this troubling trend, the...

By Amanda MacMillan

Researchers Identify Five Different Types of Diabetes, Not Just Type 1 and Type 2

For many years, diabetes cases have largely been classified as either type 1 or type 2. But a new study suggests that there may actually be five different types of the disease—some of which may...

By Amanda MacMillan

Why People With Anxiety May Have Better Memories

But there's a downside, too

By Amanda MacMillan

Heavy Drinking Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Dementia, Study Says

Hot on the heels of headlines linking alcohol consumption with longer life comes new research that casts a much more sobering light on drinking. According to an analysis of more than 1 million people—the largest...

By Amanda MacMillan

How Exercise May Help Protect Your Brain From Cognitive Decline and Dementia

Low fitness was linked to deterioration of white-matter fibers in the brain

By Amanda MacMillan

Environmental Chemicals Found in Non-Stick Pans Are Linked to Weight Gain

Chemicals called PFAS are also found in non-stick cookware

By Amanda MacMillan

Here's Why Eating More Slowly May Help You Lose Weight

People looking to lose weight might try all kinds of ways to eat fewer calories. Now, a study in BMJ Open sheds some light onto which of those strategies actually work: Based on data from...

By Amanda MacMillan

This UV Lamp Could Prevent the Flu Virus From Spreading in Public Places

Researchers have developed an ultraviolet (UV) lamp that kills the influenza virus but isn’t harmful to human skin or eyes, according to a new study in Scientific Reports. They hope the technology can be commercialized...

By Amanda MacMillan

Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Are Causing Life Expectancy in America to Drop Dramatically

U.S. life expectancy has decreased for the second year in a row, and an editorial in the BMJ points to three contributing factors: drugs, alcohol and suicides, particularly among middle-age white Americans and those living...

By Amanda MacMillan
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