59.5 Percent of Adult ED Visits Are for Patients With Chronic Conditions
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Almost 60 percent of adult emergency department visits are by patients with at least one chronic condition associated with severe COVID-19, according to a study published online Sept. 1 in the National Health…
Learn MorePostop Breast MRI Features May Predict Risk for Second Breast Cancer
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For women with a personal history of breast cancer, background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) at surveillance breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is associated with an increased risk for a subsequent secon…
Learn More‘Digital Self-Harm’: When Teens Cyberbully Themselves
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Up to 9% of American teens say they’ve engaged in what’s known as “digital self-harm” — anonymously posting negative comments about themselves on social media.As is the case with acts of physical self-harm su…
Learn MoreHypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Up for Gen Z, Millennials
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — More recent birth cohorts of pregnant individuals have experienced a doubling of rates of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in JAMA Network Open.Natalie A. Came…
Learn MoreU.S. Safety-Net Providers Report Moral Distress in Early Pandemic
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Moral distress during the first nine months of the pandemic was reported by a majority of clinicians working in U.S. safety net practices, according to a study published online Aug. 25 in BMJ Open.Donald E. Pa…
Learn MoreAI Model Can Quantify Radiographic Joint Damage in RA
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — An international competition resulted in the development of algorithms that provide feasible, quick, and accurate methods to quantify joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a study published o…
Learn MoreSGLT2 Inhibitors Benefit Broad Range of Heart Failure Patients
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors cut the risk for cardiovascular death and hospitalization for heart failure in patients with heart failure, regardless of ejection fraction, according to a s…
Learn MoreRisks for Neurologic, Psychiatric Sequelae Persist After COVID-19
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Risk for certain neuropsychiatric sequelae remains increased up to two years after COVID-19 infection, according to a study published online Aug. 17 in The Lancet Psychiatry.
Maxime Taquet, Ph.D., from the…
Learn MoreU.S. Monkeypox Cases Are Declining
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — While the number of Americans with known monkeypox infections is dropping, that may signal what’s happening in big cities, experts say. It is not the end of the outbreak, they warn. Cases are down about 40% in…
Learn MoreCOVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy Not Tied to Adverse Birth Outcomes
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy is not associated with an increased risk for preterm birth, small for gestational age at birth, or stillbirth, according to a study published online Aug. 17 in The BMJ.
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