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TUESDAY, June 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Back off, Mom and Dad: Teens who feel their parents are overly controlling may have more difficulty with romantic relationships as adults, a new study suggests. The study, which followed 184 teens, found that those with domineering parents had a future that was different from their peers: On average, they did not go as far in their education, and they were less likely to be in a romantic relationship by age 32. The researchers said the study cannot prove cause and effect. But it does add to evidence that "helicopter" parenting may end up doing kids more harm than good. "Most parents have the best intentions," said lead author Emily Loeb, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. And certainly, she added,...

TUESDAY, June 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- With U.S. coronavirus cases now past 2 million, a new report finds that COVID-19 is much more lethal for Americans with underlying health issues -- illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes or lung ailments. In fact, "deaths were 12 times higher among patients with reported underlying conditions," compared to healthy individuals, according to an analysis of more than 1.3 million cases of COVID-19 reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by May 30. People with chronic health issues were also six times more likely to require hospital care if they got COVID-19 compared to people without such conditions, said a team led by Erin Stokes of the CDC's COVID-19 Emergency Response Team. Age, gender and race all seemed to...

MONDAY, June 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- About 1 in 5 people worldwide has a least one underlying health condition that puts them at increased risk of severe COVID-19 illness, researchers say. While the analysis of data from 188 countries suggests that 22% of the world's population, or 1.7 billion people, might need additional protective measures, not all people with underlying conditions will develop severe COVID-19 illness if infected with the new coronavirus, the study authors noted. The international team of investigators concluded that 4% (349 million) of these people would require hospitalization, according to the study published June 15 in The Lancet Global Health journal. "As countries move out of lockdown, governments are looking for ways to protect the most vulnerable...

MONDAY, June 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Fears of the coronavirus have put germs on nearly everyone's radar. But a new study points out just how little is known about the microbes that inhabit your environment. You likely have thousands of different varieties of bacteria on your shoes and cellphone, including groups hardly ever studied by scientists, said researcher David Coil, of the University of California, Davis Genome Center, and colleagues. "This [study] highlights how much we have to learn about the microbial world around us," Coil said in a university news release. The researchers analyzed the DNA of bacteria gathered from the cellphones and shoes of nearly 3,500 people who attended sporting events across the United States. A consistent finding was that the shoes and...