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A new study shows loneliness and social isolation together may sharply increase the risk of memory and thinking problems during perimenopause.

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Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Bad for Your Bones, Study Finds

Eating too many ultra-processed foods lowers bone mineral density and raises the risk of hip fracture, researchers warn.

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Young Mom With Stage 4 Colon Cancer Finds Hope Through a New Transplant Option

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine give a young mother with advanced colon cancer that had spread to her liver a new chance at life with an innovative treatment option – a living-donor liver transplant that significantly raises odds of survival.

New Moms Need Weeks Of Monitoring To Catch Post-Pregnancy Complications, Study Argues

Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter March 17, 2026

New Moms Need Weeks Of Monitoring To Catch Post-Pregnancy Complications, Study Argues

New mothers need to be monitored weeks after delivery for pregnancy complications, a new study suggests.

About 40% of pregnancy complications would have been missed had doctors not kept tabs on new moms for six weeks following delivery, researchers reported March 16 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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VR Effective In Educating Patients About Upcoming Procedures

Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter March 17, 2026

VR Effective In Educating Patients About Upcoming Procedures

Imagine a doctor offering you a virtual reality headset to help explain an upcoming procedure.

It turns out such an explanation might go farther to easing your worries than the usual handout leaflet, researchers reported Friday at a meeting in London of the European Association of Urology (EAU).

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Prebiotic Eases Arthritis Pain, Trial Finds

Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter March 17, 2026

Prebiotic Eases Arthritis Pain, Trial Finds

Making your gut happy might help angry arthritis-affected joints, a new study says.

A prebiotic fiber supplement helped ease pain in people with knee arthritis, researchers recently reported in the journal Nutrients.

The results suggest that improving gut health could be a new way to treat arthritis, researchers said.

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Drug Protects Against Chemo-Caused Bleeding, Trial Shows

Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter March 17, 2026

Drug Protects Against Chemo-Caused Bleeding, Trial Shows

An already approved drug can help protect cancer patients against excessive bleeding caused by chemotherapy, a new study says.

Chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia occurs when chemo destroys platelet-producing bone marrow cells, increasing a person’s risk of dangerous bleeding.

But the injectable drug romiplostim (Nplate) can ... Full Page

Officials Examine Deaths After Plasma Donations in Winnipeg

HealthDay Staff HealthDay Reporter March 16, 2026

Officials Examine Deaths After Plasma Donations in Winnipeg

Canadian health officials are investigating the deaths of two people who donated plasma at private clinics in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The deaths happened about three months apart, one in October 2025 and the other in January 2026, according to Health Canada, the federal agency that regulates plasma donation clinics.

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New Flu Strain Weakened This Year’s Vaccine Protection, CDC Says

HealthDay Staff HealthDay Reporter March 16, 2026

New Flu Strain Weakened This Year’s Vaccine Protection, CDC Says

Flu activity in the United States is finally slowing down, but health experts say this year’s flu vaccine didn't offer as much protection as officials hoped.

New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the vaccine was only about 25% to 30% effective in preventing illness serious enough to send a... Full Page

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