Water Weight: How to Lose It for Good
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Water weight. It’s the bane of dieters looking to lose pounds, causing bloating, puffiness and disappointment when stepping on a scale.While a full 60% of your body is water, sometimes too much water is retain…
Learn MoreWater Weight: How to Lose It for Good
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Water weight. It’s the bane of dieters looking to lose pounds, causing bloating, puffiness and disappointment when stepping on a scale.While a full 60% of your body is water, sometimes too much water is retain…
Learn MoreArtificial Pancreas Device May Help Folks With Type 2 Diabetes
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — An artificial pancreas has long been considered the holy grail for people with type 1 diabetes, and new research suggests a more convenient version of this technology may help the millions of people living wit…
Learn MoreFor Seniors, Declining Sense of Smell Could Signal Frailty
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Doctors already test seniors’ hearing and vision. Sense of smell could be added to screenings one day, according to researchers who found links between its loss and risk of frailty in older adults.“We use our …
Learn MoreMost Clergy Agree With Science on Treatment of Depression: Study
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Worries that clergy will urge depressed congregants to rely on prayer and not other mental health care appear to be unfounded.A nationwide survey found that 90% of clergy members embraced a medical understandi…
Learn MorePharmacists Can Be Key to Helping Folks Kick Opioid Addiction
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Pharmacists could play an important role in helping curb the U.S. opioid epidemic, a new study suggests.Researchers studied the impact of a Rhode Island law allowing specially trained pharmacists to prescribe b…
Learn MoreBan on Menthols Won’t Push Smokers to Black Market Cigarettes: Study
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Despite tobacco industry claims, a new study found that banning menthol-flavored cigarettes did not lead to more people purchasing illicit smokes.Researchers at the University of Waterloo surveyed smokers to st…
Learn MoreSocial Isolation Can Raise Odds for Dementia
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Social isolation is a substantial risk factor for dementia in older adults, according to a pair of studies that add evidence to past research on this threat.But these new studies offer a potential solution: us…
Learn MoreFluvoxamine Does Not Improve Time to Sustained Recovery in Mild COVID-19
THURSDAY, Jan. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, treatment with fluvoxamine does not improve time to sustained recovery versus placebo, according to a study published online Jan. 12 in Journal of the American Me…
Learn MoreVaccination Coverage Down in Kindergarteners During 2021 to 2022
THURSDAY, Jan. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For children in kindergarten, vaccination coverage was lower for all vaccines in the 2021 to 2022 school year compared with the 2020 to 2021 school year, according to research published in the Jan. 13 issue …
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