Health Highlights: Jan. 17, 2023
Surgery brings added risks to people with COPD. The respiratory condition itself may not cause poor post-surgical outcomes, but most COPD patients are frail and have other chronic conditions that raise health concerns, researchers note. Read moreGetti…
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Acts of kindness could help fight depression. Doing good deeds — even small ones like buying a stranger a cup of coffee — helps people focus on someone other than themselves, countering depression, new research finds. Read moreHundreds of rural hosp…
Learn MoreU.S. Birth Rates Continue to Fall
TUESDAY, Jan. 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Continuing a decades-long trend, the percentage of American women who’ve ever had a child declined again in the latest figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”A lower percentage of w…
Learn MoreFDA Approves Second Alzheimer’s Drug, Despite Safety Concerns
FRIDAY, Jan. 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a second Alzheimer’s drug, lecanemab, despite reports of rare brain bleeds linked to use of the drug in some patients.However, the FDA pointed to the dru…
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Could weight-loss surgery in teens lead to alcohol abuse? The rise in risk is partly due to quicker absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream after these procedures, which causes more rapid impairment, researchers believe. Read moreExercise, sports c…
Learn MorePatients, Doctors Await FDA Decision on Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug
THURSDAY, Jan. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Lecanemab: It’s an experimental medication that’s been shown in trials to slow cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer’s disease. It’s also up for accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat…
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Ransomware attacks on U.S. hospitals have doubled since 2016. About 44% of the attacks disrupted the delivery of medical care, potentially doing harm to patient health, new research shows, and caused the exposure of nearly 42 million patients’ persona…
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Staying hydrated could mean less disease, slower aging. New research has discovered that older adults who are properly hydrated may be healthier and live longer than those who aren’t, having less incidence of conditions like heart and lung disease. Re…
Learn MoreDoctors’ Group Updates Guidelines on Treating Osteoporosis
TUESDAY, Jan. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) — As millions of Americans born in the baby boomer generation are already finding out, bone loss is a common sign of aging.And now experts at the American College of Physicians (ACP) — one of the leading groups …
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New Year’s resolutions: How to make and keep them. Experts say one approach to success is to assess your situation and set goals that can be easily met – then add to those goals over time. Read moreU.S. could face surging numbers of teens with diabet…
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