Allergists Less Likely to Check Black Kids for Eczema
TUESDAY, Feb. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have dubbed kids’ progression from eczema to asthma the “atopic march,” and they know more about how it affects white children than their Black counterparts. Research scheduled for presentation at an …
Learn MoreFolks With Type 1 Diabetes Are No More or Less Likely to Be Overweight: Study
TUESDAY, Feb. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Type 1 diabetes has long been considered a thin person’s disease, but a new study challenges that notion.About 62% of adults with type 1 diabetes were overweight or obese, the researchers found. That compare…
Learn MorePracticing Physicians Saw Excess Mortality During COVID-19 Pandemic
MONDAY, Feb. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Active physicians providing direct patient care experienced excess deaths during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Feb. 6 in JAMA Internal Medicine.Mathew V. Kiang, …
Learn MoreAir Pollution Tied to Changes in Systolic Blood Pressure in Teens
MONDAY, Feb. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Exposure to certain air pollutants is associated with changes in blood pressure (BP) among adolescents, according to a study published online Feb. 8 in PLOS ONE.Alexis Karamanos, Ph.D., from King’s College Lo…
Learn MoreEarly-Life Adversity Tied to Poor Mental Health, Cognition in Later Childhood
MONDAY, Feb. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Early-life adversity has lasting effects on mental health and cognitive abilities later in childhood, according to a study published online Feb. 8 in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.Tochukwu Nwe…
Learn MoreCOVID-19 Pneumonia More Fatal for Older Adults
MONDAY, Feb. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 is associated with significantly higher mortality in older adults in the intensive care unit (ICU) versus pneumonias from bacterial or other viral etiologies, according to a study published online Feb…
Learn MoreTexas Lawsuit Threatens Access to Abortion Pill Nationally
MONDAY, Feb. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Access to medication abortion could be at risk nationwide because of a Texas lawsuit working its way through the court system. Alliance Defending Freedom, the group involved in the case in Mississippi that led…
Learn MoreCDC: Teen Girls Experiencing Increasing Levels of Sadness
MONDAY, Feb. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Adolescent girls are experiencing increasing levels of sexual violence and persistent levels of sadness or hopelessness, according to a report published online Feb. 13 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a…
Learn MoreReducir las calorías podría ralentizar el envejecimiento de los adultos sanos
VIERNES, 10 de febrero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Quizá la clave para vivir más sea comer menos.En un nuevo estudio, que se publicó en la revista Nature Aging, los investigadores encontraron que una dieta con restricción de calorías tenía unos benefi…
Learn MoreEn la cirugía para el cáncer de pulmón en etapa temprana, menos quizá sea más
VIERNES, 10 de febrero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Algunos pacientes que se someten a una cirugía para un cáncer de pulmón en etapa temprana quizá no tengan que perder un lóbulo completo de su pulmón, muestra una investigación reciente.Los resultados …
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