RALEIGH, NC (WTVD) — A growing number of young people in North Carolina are gambling, raising concerns among health experts about the dangers of addiction associated with the growth of online sports betting. A joint investigation by ABC11 and the ABC News Investigative Unit examined how increased access to legal betting platforms is affecting youth … Read more
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Singapore – After two shots in 2015 and 2022 that left half of her body immobilized, Ms. Esther Teo could not even stand on her feet for two minutes. Concerned about being bedridden and inspired by a TV show that featured an 80-year-old man doing deadlifts, Mrs. Theo, 66, searched for and found a manual … Read more
You may want to leave this medicine alone. Calls to the nation’s poison centers about natural supplements marketed as energy boosters, mood enhancers and pain relievers have risen nearly 1,200% in the past decade, a new study has found. Hospitalizations, and even some deaths, have been looming, with health experts sounding the alarm over a … Read more