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Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 - Energy drinks might give you wings, unleash the beast or fuel your grind - but chugging too many might pose a serious stroke risk, doctors warn. An otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s with a daily eight-can habit found out the hard way, a case study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Case Reports states. This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor stroke caused by extremely high blood pressure, ...

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Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 - LONDON — A sperm donor who unknowingly carried a gene variant that can cause cancers fathered nearly 200 children across Europe, some of whom have already died, according to an investigation published Wednesday by a group of 14 European news organizations. The man started donating sperm at Denmark's European Sperm Bank in 2005, which was sold to women from at least a dozen countries over roughly 17 years, the ...

Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 - Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Madison Muller and Rachel Cohrs Zhang, Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths in adults, as part of a safety review that earlier appeared to just be focused on children. The investigation, being conducted across different divisions of the FDA, comes at a time when U.S. Health and Human ...

Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 - ( The Hill ) – More American newborns are not receiving vitamin K shots, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  The study found that from January 2017 to December 2024, 3.92 percent of the more than 5 million newborns in a U.S.-based electronic database did not receive a vitamin K shot. The share of newborns who did not receive the shot rose from 2.92 ...