Medical research
Researchers using hard candy in study screening for COVID-19 symptoms
Calling all candy lovers!
Oct 22, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Washing hands and Halloween candy can mitigate COVID-19 contamination risks
New research shows that COVID-19 exposure risk from contaminated candy could be successfully mitigated both by washing hands and washing candy using a simple at-home method. A team of researchers published this work today ...
Oct 30, 2020
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Pediatrics
Should I send my kids trick-or-treating this year?
The kids are begging to partake in one of their favorite holiday traditions of the year—trick-or-treating. But we are still deep in the global pandemic. So do we skip the door-to-door candy festivities this year or is there ...
Sep 29, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Young children would rather explore than get rewards, study finds
Young children will pass up rewards they know they can collect to explore other options, a new study suggests.
Aug 12, 2020
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Health
When you eat may matter more than what you eat: study
(HealthDay)—There's evidence that the old expression "eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper" could use some tweaking. With one important revision, this approach could help not just for ...
Nov 1, 2019
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Health
Check those Halloween treats so they're safe to eat
Almost 41 million American children will don costumes and go trick-or-treating tonight, so all parents should remember that not every treat is safe for their kid.
Oct 31, 2019
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Health
When Halloween became America's most dangerous holiday
The unquiet spirits, vampires and the omnipresent zombies that take over American streets every October 31 may think Halloween is all about spooky fun. But what Halloween masqueraders may not realize is that in the early ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Health
9 Florida students hospitalized for eating 'THC-laced candy'
Authorities say nine students from a Florida charter school ate marijuana-infused candy and were hospitalized with stomach pains.
Sep 9, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
FDA: Chocolates, candies may be contaminated with hepatitis A
(HealthDay)—A public health alert about possible hepatitis A contamination in Modjeskas from Bauer's Candies was announced Thursday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Jan 11, 2019
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Diabetes
No such thing as sugar highs, says pediatric endocrinologist
Sugar seems like the obvious culprit when kids get overexcited after eating cake, ice cream and who knows how much Halloween candy.
Oct 31, 2018
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