Cancer Survivors Face Higher Heart Risks Later
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you survive cancer, you’re more apt to have heart trouble later on, a new study shows.Researchers found that compared to others, cancer survivors had a 42% greater risk of heart disease, most likely due t…
Learn MoreWill You Be Depositing at the ‘Stool Bank’ Someday?
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Banking samples of your own poop in your youth and then transplanting them back when you’re old might be a key to healthy aging, scientists suggest.Stool samples frozen and stored when a person is vital and …
Learn MoreDoctors May Under-Prescribe Pain Meds During Night Shifts
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Under-prescription of pain medications occurs during night shifts, according to a study published online June 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Shoham Choshen-Hillel, Ph.D., from the …
Learn MoreE-Noses Promising for Diagnosing Cancer from Exhaled Breath
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Electronic noses (e-noses) appear to have a relatively high diagnostic accuracy in the detection of cancer from exhaled breath, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online June 29 in …
Learn MoreTwo Doses of BNT162b2 Moderately Effective for 5- to 11-Year-Olds
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For children aged 5 to 11 years, two doses of BNT162b2 provide moderate protection against documented severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and symptomatic COVID-19, accordin…
Learn MoreFeatures of Migraine Identified on Functional MRI
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the amygdala and hippocampus can differentiate patients with migraine from healthy controls (HCs) and patients with tension-type headache (TTH), according …
Learn MoreNHS Privatization Tied to Increase in Treatable Mortality
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Outsourcing spending for health care services to the private for-profit sector in the United Kingdom is associated with increased mortality from causes that should be treatable by medical intervention, accor…
Learn MorePrevalence of CRC Screening Remains Low in Those Aged 50 to 54
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — From 2000 to 2018, there was an increase in the prevalence of colorectal cancer screening, but it remained low for adults aged 50 to 54 years, according to a study published online June 23 in Cancer Epidemio…
Learn MoreStudy Explores Employment, Economic Consequences of mTBI
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has employment and economic consequences for patients, according to a study published online June 29 in JAMA Network Open.Étienne Gaudette, Ph.D., from the Dalla Lana Schoo…
Learn MoreNewly Detected Vascular Risk Factors Common in Stroke Patients
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — In a cohort of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS), two-thirds of patients with no previously diagnosed risk factors had at least one newly detected major vascular risk factor, according to a study pre…
Learn More