Salty Drinking Water Increases High Blood Pressure Risk, Review Concludes

People whose drinking water contains more salt have an increased risk of high blood pressure, a new evidence review says.

Particularly in coastal regions, salt in drinking water could be an overlooked contributor to elevated blood pressure, researchers reported recently in the journal BMJ Global Health.

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Afternoon Naps Are Good For The Brain — And Researchers Now Know Why

Having trouble powering through your afternoon workload?

A brief nap can rejuvenate your brain power, a new study says.

Even a short afternoon nap helps the brain recover and improve its ability to learn, researchers recently reported in the journal NeuroImage.

Napping helps reorganize connections between nerve cells c...

AI-Assisted Mammograms Catch More Hard-To-Detect Breast Cancers, Clinical Trial Shows

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help reduce the number of breast cancers found between mammogram screenings, clinical trial results show.

There was a 12% reduction in cancer diagnoses in the years following AI-supported breast cancer screening — a key test of effectiveness, researchers reported Jan. 29 in The Lancet.

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Approved Immunotherapy Shrinks, Eliminates Rare, Aggressive Melanoma, Clinical Trial Finds

An already-approved immunotherapy drug can dramatically shrink — or even eliminate — tumors associated with a rare and aggressive form of melanoma, a new clinical trial has found.

About 71% of desmoplastic melanoma patients treated with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) had no detectable cancer remaining when it came time to surgically ...

Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Botox and 14 Other Major Drugs

Fifteen prescription medications, including Botox and the diabetes drug Trulicity, will be the focus of federal price negotiations that could lower prices for Medicare patients.

An outgrowth of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the talks aim to lower costs for some of the most expensive treatments used by seniors. Results of the fi...

South Carolina Measles Outbreak Now the Largest in Recent U.S. History

A fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has eclipsed last year’s record-setting Texas surge.

As of Tuesday, South Carolina’s outbreak had reached 789 confirmed cases, the state Department of Public Health announced this week. (In all, 762 people were sickened in the 2025 Texas outbreak).

The new South Carolina t...