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TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) – More than 80% of Americans have a widely used herbicide lurking in their urine, a new government study suggests.The chemical, known as glyphosate, is “probably carcinogenic to humans,” the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has said. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, a well-known weed killer.The U.S. National Nutrition Examination Survey found the herbicide in 1,885 of 2,310 urine samples that were representative of the U.S. population. Nearly a third of the samples came from children ages 6 to 18.“Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the country, yet unto now we had very little data on exposure,” said Alex Temkin, a toxicologist at the Environmental Working Group, in a...

TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking by yourself may have lifelong consequences, especially if the habit begins early in life, a new study suggests.Researchers found that drinking alone during adolescence and young adulthood greatly increases risk for alcohol use disorder later on and the risk for women is especially worrisome.Alcohol abuse causes more than 3 million deaths a year worldwide.“Most young people who drink do it with others in social settings, but a substantial minority of young people are drinking alone," said study author Kasey Creswell, an associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who has studied solo drinking previously. "Solitary drinking is a unique and robust risk factor for future alcohol use disorder.”Even...

TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Award-winning actor Brad Pitt believes he suffers from a rare condition that interferes with his ability to recognize people's faces.In a new interview with GQ magazine, Pitt said that he thinks he has prosopagnosia, an extremely rare neurological condition that makes it difficult to tell faces apart."Nobody believes me!" said Pitt, 58, who has not been officially diagnosed. "I wanna meet another [person with it]."Pitt said the condition is why he stays home so much.Folks with the condition can have a difficult time telling family members apart or even recognizing their own faces in group photographs. They also have difficulty recognizing people out of context, such as seeing a work colleague in a grocery store.About 2.5% of babies and young...

TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pediatricians may become the trusted middle men between gun owners and non-gun owners when it comes to talks about gun safety, a new study shows.University of Pennsylvania researchers found parents were more open to politically sensitive discussions about gun locks and other gun safety measures when a child's doctor was involved. The study offers a possible pathway for reducing the number of firearm injuries and deaths in children across the United States, the researchers said."Parents appreciated a collaborative approach to decision-making and the emphasis on child safety," said study lead author Katelin Hoskins, a postdoctoral researcher in the Penn Center for Mental Health."Our findings add to a growing evidence base that a nonjudgmental,...