HealthDay News — Over 30 percent of adults and children consumed fast food on a given day during August 2021 to August 2023, according to two reports from the National Center for Health Statistics.

A total of 27.2 million people of all ages were uninsured in 2024, marking a nonsignificant increase from 25.0 million in 2023.

Verbal communication from mothers serves as a means of transferring social fear beliefs, predicting peer avoidance and interpretive biases.

Add-on therapy and substitution monotherapy are both effective second-line treatments for women with idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

Both high and increasing addictive screen use trajectories are associated with suicidal behaviors and worse mental health in early adolescence.

Clinical implementation of genetic testing in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities in the Medicaid-enrolled population remains low.

Risk factors for adolescent sleep deprivation, and subsequently increased risk for depression, include early school start times and lifestyle.

Higher hair cortisone levels were associated with a higher risk for metabolic syndrome, especially among individuals aged younger than 49 years.

As a technique, body exposure is still largely underutilized in German clinical practice, despite evidence demonstrating its effectiveness.

Boys and girls with multisite pain exhibited distinct underlying brain network patterns, including reduced within-sensorimotor network connectivity.

LGBT+ individuals in academic medicine demonstrated a lower sense of vision and purpose, camaraderie, and appreciation compared to their peers.

The brain age gap (BAG) plays a role in mediating the influence of cognitive impairment risk factors on cognitive function, especially among individuals with high cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) burden ...