THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Could swings in your blood fat levels increase your chances of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease?Yes, suggests a new study that found fluctuating cholesterol levels among older adults may increase the ...
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Stimulant medications like Ritalin are commonly prescribed to help treat the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but there have been concerns the drugs may lay the groundwork for later subst...
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A lot of experts advise getting a good night’s sleep. For Black Americans who have a gene variant linked to Alzheimer’s disease, that rest could be protective, a new study says. “This new finding suggests th...
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Did you know the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there were nearly 68,000 new cases of acute hepatitis C in 2020 and over 107,000 newly reported cases of chronic hepatitis C?To ...
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Curious about what the differences are between hepatitis A, B, C, D and E? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Here, experts break down hepatitis infection by type to reveal what it is, the most common sym...
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When frail patients go into cardiac arrest and need cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during surgery, they’re more likely to die than those who are stronger, a new study shows.Researchers from Brigham and W...
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Decades of “redlining” — discriminatory policies that led to disinvestment in minority communities within the United States — may be connected with current cases of kidney failure in Black adults. A new study...
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act -- also known as Obamacare -- brought an unexpected benefit: increases in how many patients got palliative care.“Our findings are encou...
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A day at the beach can be fun with family and friends, but water pollution can ruin the experience.The problem is more widespread than many might think: In a new report, the Environment America Research & Pol...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight body mass index (BMI) is not necessarily associated with increased mortality risk, especially among older adults, although all-cause mortality is increased for those with BMI ≥30 kg/m², according ...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new blood test approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can predict imminent preeclampsia, helping pregnant women who are at risk for this severe and sometimes deadly form of high blood pressure.T...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While a little more than half of American adults think they have had COVID-19, the reality is about 77.5 percent have been infected at least once, new government data show.The U.S. Centers for Disease Contro...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Despite overall national declines in smoking, Americans who live in the South and Midwest are still much more likely to smoke, and smoke more, than those living in other states, a new report shows.A nonprofi...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Heather Anderson, a star Australian rules football player who died last November, is the first female professional athlete to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE."She is the first fema...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Several companies are selling copycat food items that have the potential to trick people, including children, into consuming dangerous quantities of cannabis.On Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administratio...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnancy triggers many changes to the body, but there's one that may surprise many women.A hidden change is that the heart has to pump, on average, nearly 50% more blood by the end of pregnancy than it did ...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- You have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. What are your medication options?That depends on what type of diabetes you have and what risk factors you carry.In type 2 diabetes, the body becomes resistant to...
LUNES, 3 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Menos adolescentes consideran que tienen sobrepeso, y más subestiman lo que pesan, una percepción que inquieta a los expertos preocupados por la obesidad infantil.Estas tendencias podrían reducir la efecti...
LUNES, 3 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Algunas mujeres toman terapia de reemplazo hormonal (TRH) para luchar contra los sofocos y sudoraciones nocturnas que acompañan a la menopausia, pero una nueva revisión de estudios sugiere que la terapia p...
LUNES, 3 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los investigadores encontraron unas nuevas evidencias significativas de un vínculo entre una reducción en el sentido del olfato y el riesgo de desarrollar depresión más adelante en la vida. La afección se ...
LUNES, 3 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las tasas de mortalidad por cáncer entre los estadounidenses de origen hispano se han reducido en general en las dos últimas décadas, pero las perspectivas han empeorado en ciertos tipos de cáncer, encuent...
LUNES, 3 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los pacientes recién diagnosticados de enfermedad de Parkinson que sufren alucinaciones tempranas tienen un mayor riesgo de un deterioro mental más rápido, según una nueva investigación sobre la enfermedad...
LUNES, 3 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El viernes, la Corte Suprema de EE. UU. ratificó un fallo de una corte federal de apelaciones, que encontró que las personas con disforia de género deben estar protegidas de la discriminación bajo la Ley d...
LUNES, 3 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El número de mujeres que mueren durante el embarazo y después del parto en Estados Unidos se ha multiplicado por más de dos en dos décadas, y ha afectado con especial dureza a unos grupos raciales en parti...
LUNES, 3 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Ozempic, el medicamento de moda para perder peso, podría ser peligroso para un paciente que se somete a anestesia para una cirugía, según una nueva advertencia de la Sociedad Americana de Anestesiólogos (A...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Heather Anderson, a star Australian rules football player who died last November, is the first female professional athlete to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. "She is the first fem...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Dr. Richard Stumacher’s coworker at Northwell Health in New York City used to smoke to curb her severe anxiety, and tried multiple times to stop.“She went through the program and she would quit, and then she...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new blood test approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can predict imminent preeclampsia, helping pregnant women who are at risk of this severe and sometimes deadly form of high blood pressure.Th...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Hormone therapy (HT) use is associated with increased risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) among postmenopausal women, according to a review published online June 27 in Menopause.Wafa A. Aldhaleei,...
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For older adults, vitamin D supplementation may reduce the incidence of major cardiovascular events although the difference is small and confidence intervals consistent with a null finding, according to a st...