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Measles cases have continued to surge in Texas since the outbreak first began in late January.
State health officials reported 561 confirmed cases across 23 counties on Tuesday, an increase of 20 from April 11.
Cases in Gaines County, the center of the outbreak in west Texas, jumped from 355 to 364, according to Reuters, citing the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). The county now accounts for nearly 65% of the state’s total cases, according to health officials.
In response to the outbreak, the U.S. government will send seven personnel to the state to help battle the outbreak, the outlet reported.
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Dr. David Sugerman of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave an update on America’s response to the measles outbreak on Tuesday, according to Reuters. He said the CDC had already deployed 15 personnel to Texas from March 4 through April 1 and that the agency ..

Adults who have visited the hospital due to cannabis use could be at a higher risk of developing dementia.
A new study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that individuals who had an emergency department visit for using cannabis were at a 23% greater risk of a dementia diagnosis within five years.
People who were hospitalized were at a much larger 72% risk of dementia.
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The study, published in JAMA Neurology, analyzed health data from Ontario, Canada, between 2008 and 2021, in more than six million individuals aged 45 to 105 years old.
The research found that 16,275 of these individuals had acute care due to cannabis use. Sixty percent of these individuals were men, according to a press release.
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The annual rates of incident acute care increased five times between 45 and 64 years old, and 26.7 times in people older than 65.
The individuals who recei..

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk.
A new study from the University of California – San Francisco found that CT (computed tomography) scans could be responsible for 5% of all cancer diagnoses each year, according to a press release.
“While some uncertainty exists, it doesn’t significantly affect the core conclusion: A small but meaningful percentage of cancers are linked to CT scans, and this number can be reduced,” first author Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, a UCSF radiologist and professor, told Fox News Digital.
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The researchers’ estimates show that the ionizing radiation exposure from CT scans is comparable to other significant risk factors, such as alcohol consumption and excess body weight.
To predict how many future cancers could result from current CT scans, the researchers updated a previous analy..

The teen pregnancy epidemic could be waning, data suggests.
For the first time in U.S. history, more women over the age of 40 are having kids compared to teen moms, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This reflects the trend of more Americans either opting not to have kids or postponing them until later.
AMERICANS ARE HAVING FEWER BABIES AS BIRTH RATE HITS HISTORIC LOW, CDC REVEALS
The total number of U.S. births declined by 14% between 1990 and 2023, according to the March 2025 report.
During this time, birth rates among females younger than 20 decreased by 73%, marking the steepest percentage drop of all age groups.
This resulted in a decline from one in eight teen births in 1990 to one in 25 in 2023.
Women between 20 and 24 also had 44% fewer births from 1990 to 2023, while they dropped by 23% among 25- to 29-year-olds.
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The number of bir..

Indiana Governor Mike Braun, R-Ind., became the latest leader to enact health-related policies. On Tuesday, Braun signed a package of nine executive orders to “Make Indiana Healthy Again.”
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined Braun at an event on Tuesday where all three spoke about the importance of healthy eating.
“This isn’t the usual top-down, one-size-fits-all public health agenda: We’re focused on root causes, giving Hoosiers the transparent information to make decisions affecting their health, making it easier to access fresh local food from Indiana’s incredible farms, and taking on the problems in government programs that are contributing to making our communities less healthy,” Braun said in a statement about the orders.
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In his orders, Braun made changes to the Supplement..

Engaging in a long-term meditation practice could significantly alleviate stress and slow down aging, suggests a new study published in the journal Biomolecules.
Researchers from Maharishi International University (MIU), the University of Siegen, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences studied the effectiveness of transcendental meditation, which is a program where people silently repeat a mantra in their head to achieve deep relaxation.
“These results support other studies indicating that the transcendental meditation technique can reverse or remove long-lasting effects of stress,” co-author Kenneth Walton, a senior researcher at MIU, told Fox News Digital.
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“Lasting effects of stress are now recognized as causing or contributing to all diseases and disorders,” he added.
The study included two groups of participants — one ranging from 20 to 30 years ol..

A brand of men's multivitamins has been recalled due to the presence of an undeclared allergen that may prove deadly to some consumers.
The recall pertains to men's multivitamins manufactured by Utah-based company MTN OPS LLC. The recalled Multi-V Men multivitamins come in 60-capsule bottles, and 7,546 bottles are affected in total.
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s website, the pills were recalled due to “undeclared soy flour.”
The FDA listed the recall as Class II on April 9, which pertains to products that “may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
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The recalled vitamins have an expiration date of March 2026, and the lot number is #012324177. No other batches of vitamins are included in the recall.
The multivitamins contain essential vitamins such as calcium..

Fluoride has long been used as a dental health tool as a means of preventing cavities and fighting tooth decay — but now a new meta-analysis suggests it could have “detrimental effects” on the health of pregnant women and infants.
Researchers analyzed various studies, concluding that exposure to fluoride “offers little benefit to the fetus and young infant.”
Systemic fluoride exposure can have a harmful impact on bone strength, thyroid function and cognitive development, according to the findings, which were published in the Annual Review of Public Health.
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“Community-wide administration of systemic fluoride may pose an unfavorable risk–benefit ratio for the pregnant woman, fetus and infant,” reads the meta-analysis.
Philippe Grandjean, a researcher on the study and professor of environmental medicine at the University of Southern Denmark, told Fox News Digital that “fluoride is toxic to early brain devel..