8 top health stories of the past week that you need to know now

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the French drugmaker Ipsen’s medication Iqirvo (elafibranor). Doctors and patients discuss how this new option could transform the landscape of liver treatment. Click here to get the story.

In an Alzheimer’s breakthrough, researchers identified a genetic marker that delayed cognitive decline in a high-risk family. Among 27 family members with the gene, disease progression was slowed by an average of five years. Click here to get the story.

For Men’s Health Month, several doctors shared with Fox News Digital some common reasons for energy and vitality to decline — along with tips for getting back up to speed. Click here to get the story.

A new blood test that uses artificial intelligence could detect Parkinson's disease up to 7 years before symptoms. An AI health care expert discusses its potential impact. Click here to get the story.

Each year, some 4,000 unintentional drowning deaths occur in the U.S., with the highest rates among children between 1 and 4 years of age. From choosing the right bathing suit color to installing pool alarms, these eight tips can help prevent tragic accidents. Click here to get the story.

A recent study by Stanford University, published in the journal Psychiatry Research, found that going to bed after a certain time could lead to mental health issues. Researchers and sleep experts share the negative effects of staying up past that hour. Click here to get the story.

The first study of its kind, funded by the National Institutes of Health, looked into exactly how pairing service dogs with PTSD-diagnosed veterans improves symptoms. A veteran also shares his personal story. Click here to get the story.

The US Preventive Services Task Force says that kids and teens with a high BMI (95% or greater) should receive at least 26 hours of "comprehensive, intensive behavioral interventions." Dr. Brett Osborn weighs in on the recommendation. Click here to get the story.

Man, 25, stabbed in torso after attack by 2 at Randall's Island migrant shelter: police

A 25-year-old man was reportedly stabbed in the shoulder after being attacked at the Randall's Island migrant shelter in New York City.

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) confirmed to Fox News Digital that the man was stabbed at the migrants' shelter by two of the shelter's residents on Friday evening at 8 p.m.

Police said law enforcement arrested two suspects, identified as brothers Josue Deleon, 19, and Moises Deleon, 27. Both were charged with assault, police confirmed.

MIGRANT MAYHEM: NYC SHELTER GUARD HURT AS 5 ILLEGALS ATTACK ANOTHER IN HIS BED

The New York Post reported, citing sources, that an altercation broke out between two groups at the shelter following a separate stabbing earlier that day. 

The relationship between the victim and the suspects is still unknown.

The most recent incident came after a series of attacks at the New York City migrant shelter.

In April, five men were arrested by the NYPD after they allegedly pounced on another man in his bed and injured a security guard during the brawl.

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The five men, between ages of 20 and 33, were accused of pummeling another man as he ate food in his bed shortly before 2 a.m. at the shelter on East 125 Street.

The pack of migrants surrounded the bed and punched and scratched the victim "all over his head and face" and on his legs, police said.

The five men are charged with third-degree assault and harassment.

In February, police arrested two other migrants at the same facility when they allegedly both punched another security guard in two separate altercations on the same evening.

In that incident, officers responding to a 911 call for the first assault witnessed the second when a migrant began attacking the security guard while police were trying to talk to him, the New York Post reported.

Fox News' Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.

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