FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A potentially deadly germ has made its way to the U.S. Gulf Coast, health officials warned this week.So far, three cases of infection from the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei have been reported to the U.S. C...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new liver dialysis device might soon be able to save patients on the edge of death from liver failure, early clinical trial results show.The DIALIVE device safely improved organ function and alleviated sympto...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) – A common test for lung function may be missing lung problems in Black men, leading to under-diagnosis and insufficient care. A new study from the University of Pennsylvania estimates that as many as 40% more Bl...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare will soon cover a new class of Alzheimer's drugs if they receive full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with some key limits.Along with being full approved, drug makers will also hav...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It may not be necessary for people who have prolapse surgery for pelvic floor disorders to wait to get started exercising again.A new study challenges standard restrictions, finding that those who resume exerci...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Genetic mutations caused this latest bird flu season to become more severe, increasing the risk it poses to humans and other mammals, a new study finds.The H5N1 avian influenza virus gained the ability to sever...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People unvaccinated for COVID-19 have significant odds of lingering illness if they get the virus, with one in six still suffering symptoms two years later, new research shows.A study from Switzerland found tha...
FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Not a lot is known about how physicians should handle cases in which a pregnant woman is diagnosed with relapsed/refractory lymphoma.A new study may provide some perspective.Though uncommon, this issue is still...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For women with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer, adding pembrolizumab to chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, is associated with improved overall and progression-free survival, accor...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For pediatric patients, dispensation of medication in the emergency department is likely to improve medication adherence, according to a technical report published online May 30 in Pediatrics.In the report, S...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking cessation sustained for at least 15 weeks is associated with improved mental health outcomes, according to a study published online May 31 in JAMA Network Open.Angela Difeng Wu, from the University of...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers in Canada will soon see health warnings on each and every cigarette they light up. The country will be the first in the world to print these warnings directly on individual cigarettes."This bold step ...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults have a second vaccine option for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of a Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday.The other shot for adults 60 years and...
MIÉRCOLES, 31 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Una clave para vivir hasta los 100 años se podría encontrar en los virus que viven en los intestinos de los centenarios. "Esta instantánea de cómo el viroma interactúa con los microbiomas intestinales ...
MIÉRCOLES, 31 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las cataratas son la principal causa de ceguera en todo el mundo, pero una cirugía puede restaurar la visión. "A diferencia de muchas otras enfermedades oculares, como el glaucoma o la enfermedad ocula...
MIÉRCOLES, 31 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los pacientes que toman semaglutida para la diabetes tipo 2 o para perder peso deben tener cuidado sobre el lugar donde obtienen el medicamento, advirtió el martes la Administración de Alimentos y Medi...
MIÉRCOLES, 31 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- La ex primera dama Rosalynn Carter tiene demencia, pero sigue viviendo en casa, anunció el martes el Centro Carter.Carter pasa sus días con su esposo, el expresidente Jimmy Carter, que está recibiendo ...
MIÉRCOLES, 31 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Proveer licencia por enfermedad a los trabajadores de restaurantes podría ayudar a prevenir la propagación de las enfermedades transmitidas por los alimentos, porque los empleados enfermos son factores...
MIÉRCOLES, 31 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- La falta de energía para hacer ejercicio es un problema común entre las personas que sufren de lo que se conoce como COVID prolongada.Una nueva investigación apunta al motivo más probable: una disminuc...
MIÉRCOLES, 31 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Un aerosol nasal que contiene ketamina podría ayudar a aliviar los dolores de cabeza de las migrañas cuando otros tratamientos no funcionan, sugiere un estudio reciente. La ketamina es un anestésico si...
MIÉRCOLES, 31 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Hace mucho que se piensa que las chicas tienen una ventaja en el lenguaje, respecto a los chicos, en la infancia. Pero una nueva investigación encuentra que los chicos emiten más sonidos de vocalizacio...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with chronic heart failure, hemodynamic monitoring with the CardioMEMS-HF system improves the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) overall summary score more than standard care, accord...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A machine learning model, incorporating cardiac troponin concentrations with clinical features, can improve the diagnosis of myocardial infarction, according to a study published online May 11 in Nature Medic...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Myosteatosis is associated with increased mortality risk among asymptomatic adults, according to a study published online May 16 in Radiology.Maxime Nachit, M.D., Ph.D., from the UCLouvain in Brussels, and co...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing bariatric surgery with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and/or hiatal hernia, sleeve gastrectomy (SG) with concomitant hiatal hernia repair (HHR) and SG with fundoplication (FP) ...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Adherence to a healthy lifestyle is associated with a lower risk for a wide range of obesity-related diseases, but this association was modest in adults with obesity, according to a study published online May...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The number of American women who have diabetes when they become pregnant has increased dramatically over five years, health officials reported Wednesday. Between 2016 and 2021, the rate of pregnancy among dia...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Central catheter-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates are higher for Black pediatric patients and patients who speak a language other than English (LOE), according to a study published online May 3...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- M2 grading of intracochlear endolymphatic hydrops shows the strongest correlation with hearing loss with Meniere disease, according to a study published online May 17 in Acta Oto-Laryngologica.Zhihao Han, fro...
The annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association was held from May 20 to 24 in San Francisco and attracted participants from around the world, including clinicians, academicians, allied health professionals, and others interested in psychia...