Colorectal cancer rates in the United States are moving in two very different directions, according to a new report released today from the American Cancer Society (ACS). While the disease continues to decline among older adults, rates are rising in people under 65, particularly among younger adults, signaling a troubling shift in who is being affected.

Scientists have identified molecular and structural changes in taste buds that may explain why a small subset of people experience long-term taste loss after COVID-19 infection. The study, published in Chemical Senses, provides the first direct evidence linking patients’ reported taste changes to measurable biological abnormalities inside taste cells.

A study by researchers at the CU Anschutz Marcus Institute for Brain Health suggests that veterans with concussions may continue to show subtle but measurable brain function differences more than a decade after their injury. Researchers have found these differences can be detected through specialized eye movement testing. The findings are published in the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology.

Irked residents across Southern California have recently complained to their vector control districts about an onslaught of mosquito activity, many sporting ankle bites to prove it. Local mosquito experts blame the unseasonable weather pattern and a thriving invasive species for the surge in itchy bites.

The prevalence of obesity and severe obesity markedly increased among adults and children in the United States from the 1970s and 1980s until now, according to two reports published in the February Health E-Stats, a publication of the National Center for Health Statistics.