When Preferred Language Is Not English, Children Experience Surgical Delays
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Children whose families prefer a language other than English experience a longer delay between anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and surgery compared with families preferring English, according to a stu…
Learn MoreEfficacy, Safety of Extravascular ICD Explored
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Extravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) can be implanted safely, according to a study published online Aug. 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the European Society…
Learn MorePhoton-Counting Detector CT Helps ID Multiple Myeloma Lesions
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Photon-counting detector (PCD) computed tomography (CT) with deep learning noise reduction may improve spatial resolution for viewing findings in multiple myeloma compared with energy-integrating detector (EI…
Learn MoreASTRO Offers Guidance on RT for IDH-Mutant Diffuse Grade 2, 3 Glioma
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Society for Radiation Oncology and published in the September-October issue of Practical Radiation Oncology, recommendations are presented for the use o…
Learn MoreSpecific Plasma Metabolites Linked to Cognitive Function
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Specific metabolites, including four sugar-related metabolites, are associated with cognitive function, according to a study published online Sept. 16 in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.Einat Granot-Hershkovitz, Ph.D….
Learn MoreAnhedonia Linked to Negative, Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Anhedonia has connections with negative and positive symptoms and functional domains in schizophrenia, according to a study published online Aug. 17 in JAMA Psychiatry.Samuel J. Abplanalp, Ph.D., from the Vet…
Learn MoreDiets Haven’t Improved Much Worldwide, and U.S. Remains Near Bottom of List
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Despite everything people have learned about good nutrition, folks around the world aren’t eating much healthier than they were three decades ago, a new global review has concluded.Diets are still closer to a…
Learn MoreAnxiety, Depression Scores Up in Meniere Disease, Vertigo
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Patients with Meniere disease (MD) and those with benign positional paroxysmal vertigo (BPPV) have higher average scores of anxiety and depression and higher severity of anxiety and depression than controls, …
Learn MoreMedical Debt Can Crush Even the Insured, Study Shows
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Weeks after a stay in the hospital, your bill arrives and you can barely believe the amount due. How is this even possible if you have good health insurance and, more importantly, how will you pay it?Unfortun…
Learn MoreAHA News: Blood Clot Risk Remains Elevated Nearly a Year After COVID-19
MONDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — People who got COVID-19 had a higher risk of dangerous blood clots for close to a year later, according to a large new study on the aftereffects of a SARS-CoV-2 infection during the period be…
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