Health

Spring chicken! Watch this boy transform himself Young Cale Martin of Missouri decided to make a costume out of a giant chicken stuffed animal. After purchasing the stuffed animal from the local supermarket, he took out the stuffing, put it on — and ran! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration …

For women who are struggling to conceive, chemicals could be the culprit — that’s according to a new study published in Science of the Total Environment. The study found that women whose blood plasma contained higher amounts of PFAS (perfluoroalkyl substances) — chemicals often found in drinking water and in …

Erin Hanley knows she wants kids someday, but doesn’t know how or when it will happen, which led her to freeze her eggs in the fall of 2020. “I always wanted to have options so that I could make a choice later,” the 33-year-old told CBS News. Hanley isn’t alone. …

Cases of a deadly fungus have tripled in the U.S. from 2019 to 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Candida aurist was reported in the U.S. in 2016 and cases have climbed ever since. Annual clinical case counts rose to 476 in 2019 …

Cases of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris are now climbing at an “alarming” rate in health care facilities around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday, after reports of infected patients nearly doubled in 2021. For several years after the first American cases were reported in …

Spring is the prime season to declutter closets, kitchens and garages — but don’t forget to add an annual medicine overhaul to your cleaning list. “Medications have expiration dates, just like food,” Christina Aungst, PharmD — the pharmacy editor at GoodRx, who is based in Jefferson, Massachusetts — told Fox …

In-vitro fertilization, or IVF, had never crossed my mind until a year ago. IVF, or infertility at all, was not a topic that had really come up with my friends or family. I had never done a television story about it, and it was not a topic anyone really spoke …

That morning cup of coffee might provide more benefits than just a quick energy boost. New research suggests that consuming higher levels of caffeine could help curb body fat and reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Bristol, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and …

The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010 by former President Barack Obama, has expanded health insurance coverage across the U.S. and significantly reduced racial and ethnic disparities in access to healthcare, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund. Coverage inequities between Black, Hispanic, and white adults have narrowed …

High rates of cancer among military pilots have been discovered by a Pentagon study. And for the first time, it’s been shown that ground crews that fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are getting sick as well.  The Pentagon released the study in early February, the Associated Press reported. Retired …