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TUESDAY, June 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitalized patients with diabetes who hadn't been taking their medication had more severe cases of COVID-19, a new study shows. "Our results highlight the importance of assessing, monitoring and controlling blood glucose [sugar] in hospitalized COVID-19 patients from the start," said study author Sudip Bajpeyi, associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Texas at El Paso. He spoke in a news release from the American Diabetes Association, which held its virtual annual meeting on Friday, when the study was presented.Nearly 1 in 5 Americans with diabetes reported that due to the financial pressures of the pandemic, they had to choose between buying food or buying medications and medical supplies to manage their diabetes, according...

TUESDAY, June 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Good news for couples considering fertility treatments: Children born through assisted reproductive technology (ART) don't have an increased risk of cancer, researchers say.In the new study, kids born through high-tech fertility treatments — such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and frozen embryo transfer (FET) — were followed for 18 years on average.The results should be "quite reassuring, especially for children conceived by IVF, and are an important contribution to the current knowledge about health risks in ART-offspring," said study author Dr. Mandy Spaan, of Amsterdam University Medical Center and the Netherlands Cancer Institute.The researchers noted there's growing evidence that fertility drugs, egg/embryo freezing and thawing, and...

TUESDAY, June 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Using a bit of sleight of hand, researchers were able to demonstrate that babies who were the most intrigued with magic tricks became the most curious toddlers.The children's early delight in the unexpected could be a sign of their future thinking skills, the researchers said."Something about a baby's curiosity about magic tricks is predicting how curious they become as preschoolers," said Lisa Feigenson, co-director of the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Child Development, in Baltimore. "What the data suggest is that some 3-year-olds have a leg up or seem particularly well positioned to learn a lot about the world."For the study, the researchers used a little magic to test this theory with 65 children, starting when they were 11...

MONDAY, June 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Juul, the leading e-cigarette maker in the United States, has agreed to pay $40 million to settle a lawsuit by North Carolina that alleged the company intentionally got scores of teenagers hooked on nicotine. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, who sued the company two years ago, announced the settlement on Monday. The company did not admit to any liability or wrongdoing in the settlement, The New York Times reported. Thirteen other states and the District of Columbia have filed similar lawsuits that have yet to be finalized. "For years Juul targeted young people, including teens, with highly addictive e-cigarettes," Stein said in a statement. "It lit the spark and fanned the flames of a vaping epidemic among our children — one that...