https://livewellnews.com/articles/alcohol-cannabis-use-disorder-trends/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Cannabis use disorder rose among US adults from 2021 to 2024 while alcohol use disorder held steady or fell https://livewellnews.com/articles/atrial-fibrillation-ablation-sham/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Ablation for atrial fibrillation did not clearly beat a sham on quality of life in a 262-patient trial https://livewellnews.com/articles/atrial-fibrillation-anticoagulation-intermediate-risk/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z First trial backs blood thinners for atrial fibrillation with one stroke risk factor, on just 17 events https://livewellnews.com/articles/blood-pressure-lowering-kidney-disease/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Tighter blood pressure control cut cardiovascular events with or without kidney disease in 27 trials https://livewellnews.com/articles/cancer-incidence-men-women/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Lifestyle and health factors accounted for 84% of men's excess cancer rate in Shanghai but 26% in the UK https://livewellnews.com/articles/covid-vaccine-immunotherapy-survival/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z A reported cancer survival link to COVID vaccines looked small and brief in 95,015 French patients https://livewellnews.com/articles/dementia-after-tia/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z One in five developed dementia in the years after a mini-stroke, against 15% of matched peers, in Ontario https://livewellnews.com/articles/diet-after-heart-attack/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Heart attack survivors with the healthiest diets had death rates 23% to 34% lower over an average 16 years https://livewellnews.com/articles/esophageal-cancer-ai-ct-screening/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z An AI system found 90% of esophageal cancers on routine chest CT scans but just 52.5% of precancerous lesions https://livewellnews.com/articles/fasting-before-blood-tests/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z No blood test differed after fasts past 12 hours, and only a few after short fasts, in 101,148 patients https://livewellnews.com/articles/fecal-transplant-ibs/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Fecal transplant did no better than placebo for irritable bowel syndrome in a 450-person trial https://livewellnews.com/articles/hormone-therapy-blood-clots/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Menopause hormone tablets were linked to more blood clots in a Danish study; patches and gels were not https://livewellnews.com/articles/hpv-vaccine-pregnancy-outcomes/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z HPV vaccination before pregnancy was linked to slightly lower odds of preterm birth in 624,713 Swedish births https://livewellnews.com/articles/keto-diet-intestinal-tumors-mice/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z A ketogenic diet sped up small-intestine tumors in cancer-prone mice and slowed them in the colon https://livewellnews.com/articles/kidney-transplant-vs-dialysis/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Kidney transplant's survival edge over dialysis narrowed for older patients given higher-risk donor organs https://livewellnews.com/articles/long-covid-fluvoxamine-metformin/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Long COVID fatigue trial retracted and republished: fluvoxamine result intact, side-effect figures revised https://livewellnews.com/articles/open-dialogue-mental-health-crisis/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Open Dialogue did not delay relapse in its first trial, though fewer people were admitted to hospital https://livewellnews.com/articles/orforglipron-heart-safety/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Orforglipron pill was no worse for the heart than insulin in a 2,749-person diabetes safety trial https://livewellnews.com/articles/physical-activity-adolescent-brain/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Adolescents who took more daily steps had fewer mental health problems a year later, in a US study of 5,515 https://livewellnews.com/articles/postpartum-patient-navigation/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Postpartum navigators missed the main goal of a 405-person trial but nearly doubled primary care follow-up https://livewellnews.com/articles/prostate-radiotherapy-five-sessions/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Five-session prostate radiotherapy eased bowel side effects, but relapse on blood tests was more common https://livewellnews.com/articles/retatrutide-obesity/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Top-dose retatrutide cut body weight 25% over 80 weeks in a 2,339-person trial, with gut side effects common https://livewellnews.com/articles/robotic-knee-replacement/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Robotic knee replacement was no better for patients at one year than conventional surgery in a blinded trial https://livewellnews.com/articles/screen-time-children-mental-health/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z More screen use, slightly lower school achievement and more behavior problems, across 2.8 million children https://livewellnews.com/articles/smoking-cessation-lung-screening/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Cash rewards with free medicines doubled six-month quit rates, to 8.8%, in smokers sent for lung screening https://livewellnews.com/articles/stroke-young-adults/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Strokes in adults aged 20 to 54 rose from 34 to 62 per 100,000 between 1993 and 2020 in a US regional study https://livewellnews.com/articles/vitamin-c-clonal-cytopenia/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Vitamin C did not slow abnormal blood cell growth in a 109-person trial; an unplanned tally found fewer deaths https://livewellnews.com/articles/wildfire-smoke-lung-cancer-survival/ Live Well News en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Wildfire smoke was linked to shorter survival in lung cancer, more so per microgram than other air pollution