Air Pollution Undermines Health Benefits Of Exercise, Evidence Says

Air pollution can undermine some of the health benefits active folks expect to derive from regular exercise, a new study says.

The protective effect exercise should have on people’s risk of death was cut by half among those living in areas with heavy air pollution, researchers reported recently in the journal BMC Medicine.

Laughing Gas Relieves Depression, Evidence Says

Laughing gas might live up to its name for people struggling with depression, a major new study says.

Treatment with nitrous oxide can provide rapid relief for people with depression, especially those who aren’t helped by antidepressants, researchers reported recently in the journal eBioMedicine.

“This is a signi...

TikTok Videos Mislead On Epilepsy Care, Experts Say

Fake clickbait TikTok videos about epilepsy treatments are receiving more views than accurate, evidence-based offerings, a new study says.

More than half of TikTok videos regarding epilepsy featured claims that were false, misleading and potentially harmful, researchers reported Friday at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society...

Want To Save Rural Hospitals? Send Patients Home To Recover, Study Argues

Discharging hospital patients early to recover at home might be key to saving rural health care, a new study says.

Rural patients cost a good deal less to care for during recovery at home than in a hospital, researchers recently reported in JAMA Network Open.

What’s more, those patients tend to be happier and more acti...

One Million More U.S. Kids Became Obese During COVID Pandemic

Roughly 1 million American kids became obese during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study says.

Childhood obesity rates in the U.S. rose from around 21% pre-pandemic to nearly 23% during the global health crisis, researchers reported Dec. 2 in the journal Pediatrics.

That totals up to about 1 million more children with obesity ...

Depression Increases Epilepsy Risk, Makes It Harder To Treat

People with depression have a more than doubled risk of developing epilepsy, a new study says.

Worse, depression then makes epilepsy more difficult to treat, according to results of a second study.

Both papers, presented Friday at the annual meeting in Atlanta of the American Epilepsy Society, shed fresh light on the complex relation...