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MONDAY, Nov. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Your daily cup of joe might be a quick pick-me-up, but it comes with a mixed bag of good and not-so-good effects on your health, a new study reports.Drinking coffee helps people stay more active, but it also significantly robs some of sleep, researchers say.And while java doesn't seem to cause irregular rhythms in the upper chamber of the heart, it can cause the lower chambers to skip beats, according to findings presented Sunday at the online annual meeting of the American Heart Association. "People should understand that this extremely commonly consumed beverage really does have substantive effects on our health, and they're variable," said lead author Dr. Gregory Marcus, associate chief of cardiology for research at the University of...

MONDAY, Nov. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People who were exposed to a particular hormonal medication in the womb may have a heightened risk of cancer later in life, a new study suggests.Researchers found the increased cancer risk among adults whose mothers had been given injections of a synthetic progesterone known as 17-OHPC, or 17P, during pregnancy. The study participants were born in the 1960s, when the drug was used to help prevent miscarriage in pregnant women who were at increased risk.Today, that is no longer the case. But a version of 17P, sold under the brand name Makena, is still used to lower the chances of preterm birth in high-risk women.It's not clear, experts said, how relevant the new findings are to the way 17P is used today.However, the effectiveness of 17P against...

MONDAY, Nov. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A young boy who was injured at the Astroworld Festival in Houston has become the 10th person to die from a huge crowd surge at the event.Ezra Blount, 9, was trampled at the festival and had been placed in a medically induced coma in an attempt to deal with severe brain, liver and kidney trauma, attorneys for his family said last week, CBS News reported."The Blount family tonight is grieving the ultimate, incomprehensible loss of their precious young son," the attorneys said in a statement. "This should not have been the outcome of taking their son to a concert, a joyful celebration. Ezra's death is absolutely heartbreaking. We are committed to seeking answers and justice for the Blount family. But tonight we stand in solidarity with the family,...

MONDAY, Nov. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) – You might want to put the salt shaker down and pick up a banana.Having less sodium and more potassium in your diet is linked to lower risk of heart disease, according to a new study involving more than 10,000 adults. Prior observational studies had led to confusion about whether reducing current levels of salt in the diet might backfire, raising cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, noted first study author Yuan Ma. He's a research scientist in epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The new data should put those fears to rest."Our study combined high-quality individual participant data from six cohort studies where sodium was measured by the currently most reliable method, namely, multiple 24-hour urine samples," he...