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Nearly a quarter of young adults, and a fifth of adolescents are pre-diabetic in the US. The numbers are increasing and putting young people at risk for developing Type II diabetes. 9 in 10 adults don't even know they have diabetes. Diet and exercise are the main ways to prevent from getting…

Small electronic scooters, also known as the Bird or Lime, are becoming the next phase of becoming more green for our environments. These e-scooters are promoted world-wide, including Paris, Tel Aviv, and Buenos Aires. Although this new movement is a great substitution for cleaning our air, but are…

Car crashes are no longer the leading cause of traumatic brain injury related deaths in the US, suicide is. Millions of people every year end up in the ER from traumatic brain injuries due to self-inflicted gunshots to the head. The TBI-mortality rates was much higher among males and American…

Many people mistake youth homelessness as living on the streets, but this is in fact not the case. Homeless youth are those living without stable housing, and commonly partake in "couch-surfing", which is jumping from couch to couch of their family and friends, but a couch is not a home. Federal…

A 14-year-old girl from China went to the hospital due to abdominal blockage caused by nearly 100 undigested tapioca pearls, also known as boba balls. She was constipated for five days and refused to eat. After a CT scan was performed, the doctor witnessed spherical shadows lining down her colon to…

Younger people with cannabis use disorder are at higher risk of heart rhythm problems, and young people who use weed frequently are at a higher risk for stroke, according the the American Heart Association. They looked at data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which gives national estimates of…

Eating soup as a meal can help with weight loss and can also give the digestion a chance to reboot and de-bloat. Eating soup before a meal can help fill up the stomach, preventing someone from eating more food. The secret behind soup is that it binds water into foods slowing down gastric emptying,…

A young 31 year old woman was diagnosed with lung cancer, and has never smoked a day in her life. She was an athlete with a daily work out routine until one day she noticed she was having discomfort and her work outs were becoming harder to complete. Doctors told her she is just working too hard…

As of recent updates, 33 people have died and 1,479 have fallen ill from a vaping-related lung disease. The CDC is now calling it EVALI for e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury. The outbreak is getting worse as flu season is coming back into full effect. The CDC is warning…

A woman from Tskane, South Africa was stricken with a deadly strain of tuberculosis. She was very ill and only weighed 57 pounds. Local nurses convinced her to transfer to Johannesburg Hospital, which was infested with vervet monkeys. They told her she was going to die. The trial she was enrolled…

The artificial stone that is used to make bathroom and kitchen countertops has been linked to cases of death and lung injury in the workers who cut, grind, and polish them. The workers are are inhaling dangerous amounts of silica dust, and this is damaging their lungs. Workers have been diagnosed…

The rate of students in middle school and high school that use flavored e-cigarettes continues to rise. The FDA and CDC tested these products and concluded that they can contain more nicotine than a traditional cigarette. The CEO of Juul has even agreed to cease all advertisements of the product in…

People inappropriately using antibiotics seems to be a reoccurring public health problem. Some will save leftover prescriptions to use later, getting them from friends or family, or obtaining them from a local market "under the counter". This leads to people taking the unnecessary medication or an…

Scientific data shows that human health is declining due to the poor air quality. An estimation of about 30,000 lives can be saved from reducing air pollution levels. There have been substantial cleaning efforts over the past two decades that have benefitted individuals health. click here.