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The “forever chemicals” known as PFAS are increasingly known to potentially pose many threats, the latest of which may be child bone health, according to a new study. (Rogers, 3/17)

People who eat around nine servings a day of ultraprocessed foods like chips and doughnuts have about a 67% higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and dying from heart disease compared with those who eat about one serving a day, according to a new study. The risks rose with each additional serving a person ate, according to the study published Tuesday in JACC: Advances, a journal of the American College of Cardiology. (Petersen, 3/17)

Eating a combination of two award-winning diets slowed aging in key structures inside the brain by over two years, according to a new study. (LaMotte, 3/17)

It likely won’t be hard to remember the new phone number for a cancer support line: CSC-867-5309. The seven digits, made famous by the 1981 Tommy Tutone hit, “867-5309/Jenny,” now directs callers to the nonprofit organization, the Cancer Support Community (CSC), which provides information, support and advice from trained specialists to people affected by cancer. Securing the earworm-inducing number for the free and confidential calls was part of a joint effort by CSC, Gilda’s Club locations and the health marketing agency Klick Health, according to organizers. (Kurtz, 3/17)

Reductions in child mortality have slowed around the world and even stalled in some places, with communities in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia particularly at risk, a United Nations report has found. Nearly 7 million people died before turning 25 in 2024, with 4.9 million children dying before the age of 5, according to an analysis released late Tuesday by the UN entities that estimate child and adolescent mortality. (Del Valle, 3/18)

World Health Organization officials are preparing for a nuclear catastrophe if the U.S.-Israel war with Iran escalates further. U.N. staff are monitoring the fallout of U.S-Israeli attacks on Iran’s atomic sites and remain "vigilant" for any type of nuclear threat, Hanan Balkhy, WHO regional director for the eastern Mediterranean, told POLITICO. (O'Neill, 3/17)