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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Arsenic measured in public water systems at levels below the current US Environmental Protection Agency's maximum contaminant level are associated with adverse birth outcomes.

Health, emotional well-being, financial, and family stress levels are associated with intracerebral hemorrhage risk after controlling for hypertension.

Physical activity volume was positively associated with ADHD symptoms while variability was negatively associated with ADHD symptoms.

Neither computed tomography (CT) perfusion nor CT angiography meet the prespecified validation threshold as an ancillary test for death by neurologic criteria (DNC) in critically ill patients.