Hacker News with Generative AI: Health

Vitamin D Supplements Show Signs of Protection Against Biological Aging (massgeneralbrigham.org)
Results from the VITAL randomized controlled trial reveal that vitamin D supplementation helps maintain telomeres, protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that shorten during aging and are linked to the development of certain diseases.
Vitamins, Health, Aging, Science, Medical Research
10 points by gnabgib 20 hours ago | 1 comments
I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it (greg.technology)
i went to a show in november of last year (it’s may right now) and ever since, i have tinnitus. i don’t recommend it.
Health, Personal Experiences, Tinnitus
176 points by gregsadetsky 2 days ago | 210 comments
Show HN: I made Blueprint for brain health to hit daily peak productivity (brainpower.now)
Productivity, Health, Neuroscience, Software, Show HN
4 points by Lilian_ 2 days ago | 0 comments
Elephants evolved to beat cancer, and how we could too (newatlas.com)
Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically experience unusually low rates of cancer.
Cancer, Evolution, Biology, Animals, Health
17 points by Brajeshwar 2 days ago | 6 comments
Why walking is the most underrated form of exercise (2017) (nbcnews.com)
You drag yourself from your desk to the gym, where you pop in some upbeat music and jack the treadmill up to 6 mph.
Exercise, Health, Walking
45 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 106 comments
Therapeutic video game shows promise for post-Covid cognitive recovery (psypost.org)
A therapeutic intervention using the AKL-T01 video game was found to improve cognitive processing speed and task-switching performance in individuals with persistent cognitive deficits following COVID-19 infection.
Gaming, Health, Cognitive Science, COVID-19
5 points by isaacfrond 2 days ago | 0 comments
Understanding How Violet Light Can Stop Myopia Progression (bme.gatech.edu)
An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding a powerful potential treatment for myopia, which is fast becoming a public health crisis in Asia.
Myopia, Vision, Health, Science, Research
13 points by plun9 2 days ago | 6 comments
New policy limits access to Covid vaccines (apnews.com)
Israeli strikes kill at least 85 in Gaza as Israel allows more aid into Palestinian territory
Politics, International Relations, Health, Conflict
7 points by newAccount2025 3 days ago | 0 comments
Rethinking Sleep from First Principles (affectablesleep.com)
If you’re like me, you’ve maybe had a love/hate relationship with sleep. As a life-long chronic insomniac, I’d love to sleep, but it’s never really been a thing for me. I went down the usual path of trying to get 8 hours of sleep, but even when I did, I didn’t feel any more refreshed than when I slept for 5 hours. Often, I actually felt better on 5 hours of sleep.
Sleep, Health, Personal Experiences, Insomnia
13 points by pedalpete 3 days ago | 23 comments
High Levels of Arsenic Found in Rice Sold Across the U.S. (delish.com)
We’re still reeling from the news that a common ingredient in energy drinks has been linked to blood cancer, and now, a new report has raised concerns about arsenic levels in rice sold across the United States. It can feel overwhelming to keep up with food safety news these days.
Food Safety, Health, Arsenic, Rice
11 points by LopRabbit 3 days ago | 12 comments
RSV vaccine and antibody treatment leads to drop in US hospitalisations (gavi.org)
Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that the roll-out of preventive approaches has had an immediate impact on RSV rates.
Health, Vaccines, Disease, Public Health, United States
5 points by bediger4000 3 days ago | 1 comments
FDA to limit access to Covid-19 shots (arstechnica.com)
Under the control of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration is unilaterally terminating universal access to seasonal COVID-19 vaccines; instead, only people who are age 65 years and older and people with underlying conditions that put them at risk of severe COVID-19 will have access to seasonal boosters moving forward.
COVID-19, Public Health, Vaccines, Politics, Health
14 points by AdmiralAsshat 3 days ago | 3 comments
US to limit Covid boosters to over-65s or those at high risk (yahoo.com)
The United States will restrict routine Covid-19 boosters to people over 65 or those at higher risk of serious illness, while requiring new placebo-controlled trials to justify vaccination in healthy individuals under that age, senior officials said Tuesday.
Health, COVID-19, Public Health, Policy, Vaccination
8 points by sundaeofshock 3 days ago | 0 comments
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or high risk of serious illness (statnews.com)
The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 years of age and older and others who are at high risk of becoming seriously ill if they are infected, and will require manufacturers to conduct clinical trials to show whether the vaccines are of benefit to healthy younger adults and children.
Health, COVID-19, Public Health, Regulation, Vaccines
12 points by perihelions 3 days ago | 3 comments
Protein for strength training? Vegan diet matches meat for muscle gains (npr.org)
Veganism, Strength Training, Nutrition, Health, Science
11 points by toomuchtodo 4 days ago | 1 comments
Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden (thewrap.com)
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams said on Monday morning that he expects to die soon from prostate cancer, the same disease former President Joe Biden announced he is battling.
Health, Celebrities, Cancer
451 points by dale_huevo 4 days ago | 604 comments
Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence (escardio.org)
Belgrade, Serbia – 18 May 2025. Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Health, Heart Disease, Science, Research, Medicine
6 points by geox 5 days ago | 3 comments
The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated (uu.se)
That fit people have a reduced risk of premature death from various diseases is a recurring result in many studies. New research from Uppsala University shows that people with high fitness levels in their late teens also have a reduced risk of dying from random accidents. This suggests that the associations seen in previous studies have probably been misleading.
Health, Mortality, Fitness, Research, Science
61 points by gnabgib 5 days ago | 80 comments
Biden Is Diagnosed with an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer (nytimes.com)
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was diagnosed on Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement on Sunday.
Politics, Health, Cancer
13 points by jmdelatorre 5 days ago | 1 comments
We fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts (theconversation.com)
In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information.
Health, Misinformation, Internet, Social Media
26 points by rntn 6 days ago | 9 comments
FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts (sciencenews.org)
A decades-old dental health treatment may soon vanish in the United States. Access to fluoride supplements, prescribed to prevent cavities in children without access to fluoridated water, is now under threat from a controversial move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Health, Dental Health, Government Regulations, Fluoride
18 points by XzetaU8 6 days ago | 2 comments
Mr. Secretary, Reclassify the Statin (alexkesin.com)
One regulatory stroke could save more American lives than a decade of health campaigns. You have the pen.
Health, Politics, United States
20 points by paulpauper 6 days ago | 14 comments
RFK Jr plan to ban fluoride supplements will "hurt rural America," dentists say (arstechnica.com)
This week, the US health department announced a plan to ban prescription fluoride supplements for children.
Health, Fluoride, Rural America, Politics
9 points by rntn 6 days ago | 0 comments
Energy drinks linked to rise in colorectal and blood cancer (thenightly.com.au)
A common energy drink ingredient could be leading blood cancer cells to grow and multiply, according to a new study by researchers in New York.
Health, Cancer, Science, Energy Drinks
38 points by _xerces_ 6 days ago | 30 comments
Energy Drinks Linked to Rise in Colorectal Cancer (msn.com)
Researchers may be one step closer to unravelling the cause of a colon cancer crisis in relatively young people.
Health, Cancer, Science, Research
4 points by _xerces_ 6 days ago | 3 comments
NHS rolls out 5-minute 'super-jab' for 15 cancers (england.nhs.uk)
Thousands of patients will benefit from a new cancer jab for more than a dozen types of the disease, with the NHS the first in Europe to offer the new injection.
Health, Cancer, UK, Technology, Healthcare
10 points by dsego 6 days ago | 0 comments
SSRIs induce cardiac toxicity through dysfunction of mitochondria and sarcomeres (nature.com)
The administration of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) during pregnancy can increase the odds of congenital heart defects in babies.
Science, Medicine, Health, Pharmacology, Cardiology
18 points by XzetaU8 6 days ago | 7 comments
Trump’s Push to Defund Harvard Prompts Clash Over Veteran Suicide Research (nytimes.com)
The Trump administration’s move to cancel an array of federal contracts at Harvard University has set off an internal clash over the impact on medical research intended to help veterans, including projects involving suicide prevention, toxic particle exposure and prostate cancer screening, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Politics, Research, Veterans, Health, Lawsuits
13 points by standardUser 6 days ago | 1 comments
Better air quality is the easiest way not to die (dynomight.net)
What do you worry about more: Getting exercise, eating vegetables, or the air you breathe?
Health, Air Pollution, Environmentalism
11 points by haltingproblem 7 days ago | 0 comments
Objective pain score? Here's the problem with that (theconversation.com)
Are you in pain? Are you sure? On a scale from zero to ten, where zero is no pain at all and ten is the worst pain imaginable, how much pain is it?
Health, Medicine, Pain Management
4 points by PaulHoule 7 days ago | 0 comments