Mental Health Among High School Students Explored During COVID-19
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For adolescents, feelings of connectedness were associated with lower prevalence of poor mental health and suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published in a supplement to the April…
Learn MoreLiving-Donor Liver Transplant Promising for CRC With Liver Mets
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For select patients with liver-confined, unresectable colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM), total hepatectomy and living-donor liver transplant (LDLT) is associated with good rates of recurrence-free and …
Learn MoreAt-Home Visual Acuity Tests Valid Versus In-Office Testing
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Measurements for three at-home self-administered visual acuity (VA) tests were within one line of Snellen acuity compared within-office VA measurements, according to a study published online March 31 in JAMA O…
Learn MoreEarly Use of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Cuts Hospitalization Risk
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 convalescent plasma administered to mostly unvaccinated outpatients within nine days after symptom onset reduced the risk of progression of COVID-19 leading to hospitalization, according to a study pu…
Learn MoreEight-Gene Model Can Help Predict Progression to Severe Dengue
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — An eight-gene model can help predict progression to severe dengue (SD), according to a study published online March 29 in Genome Medicine.Yiran E. Liu, from Stanford University in California, and colleagues in…
Learn MoreBuprenorphine Prescribing for Medicaid Beneficiaries Down in 2020
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — During 2020, buprenorphine dispensed to Medicaid beneficiaries was significantly below prepandemic levels nationally, according to a research letter published online March 24 in JAMA Network Open.William N. Do…
Learn MoreVNS May Cut Hospital Costs for Children With Refractory Epilepsy
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Antiseizure medication (ASM) plus vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is associated with lower annual hospital costs over time for pediatric patients with refractory epilepsy compared to ASM alone, according to a st…
Learn MoreRisk for Acute MI Not Increased With Two-Dose HepB-CpG Vaccine
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The rate of type 1 acute myocardial infarction (MI) is not increased with receipt of the two-dose hepatitis B vaccine with a cytosine phosphoguanine adjuvant (HepB-CpG vaccine) versus the three-dose hepatitis …
Learn MoreHeart Disease Is Women’s #1 Killer. So Why So Little Female-Focused Research?
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in America, accounting for more than one in five deaths. Still, far too few women realize the danger.In fact, “Awareness of heart disease as the leading c…
Learn MoreU.S. Surgeons’ Group Is Working to Save Trauma Victims in Ukraine
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Images of Ukrainians being carried on stretchers from bombed-out buildings, wounded and bleeding, are heartbreaking, but one American surgeons’ group is doing its part to help teach the war-torn country’s citi…
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