WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An exceptionally pricey gene therapy cure for sickle cell disease could soon be available, but it’s not clear whether insurance companies will balk at the cost and deny coverage.On the surface, the gene ther...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When most men think about their prostate, it's to worry about whether they have prostate cancer or not. But another condition is far more common and plenty painful.Prostatitis involves inflammation of the pr...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Daily vitamin D₃ supplementation may reduce cancer mortality for some patients, according to a study published in the June issue of Ageing Research Reviews.Sabine Kuznia, from the German Cancer Research Cent...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Liver function test (LFT) screening can identify occult hepatitis, cholestasis, and cholestatic hepatitis in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), according to a study published online May 2 in Open Access...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For men with large prostates, the Aquablation procedure is safe, with durable efficacy, according to a study published online April 28 in The Journal of Urology.Naeem Bhojani, M.D., from the University of Mo...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with diabetes, an automated binary diabetic macular ischemia (DMI) algorithm using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images predicts diabetic retinal disease progression and deteri...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The main safety issues in the emergency department include shortage of personnel during busy periods, overcrowding due to boarding, and lack of support from hospital management, according to a survey study c...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with chronic coronary artery disease, colchicine is associated with a reduced incidence of total knee replacement (TKR) and total hip replacement (THR) versus placebo, according to a study publi...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A joint attention-based deep learning system provides good predictive performance for differentiating autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from typical development (TD), according to a study published online May 2...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Vegetarian and vegan diets are associated with reduced total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B levels, according to a review published online May 24 in the European Heart...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with septic shock, intravenous hydrocortisone does not reduce 90-day mortality when compared with placebo, according to a study published online May 22 in NEJM Evidence.Romain Pirracchio, M.D., ...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn disease, upadacitinib induction and maintenance treatment are superior to placebo, according to a study published in the May 25 issue of the New England Journal of ...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to mental health, men don't always seek help when they need it. But maybe they should. June is Men's Mental Health Month, so here are the most common mental health conditions men experience, th...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to mental health, men don't always seek help when they need it. But maybe they should. June is Men's Mental Health Month, so here are the most common mental health conditions men experience, th...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- You're due for a prostate exam, but you don't know what to expect.So, what is this exam like?Regular check-ups are essential for maintaining your health, and a prostate exam is crucial to preventive care for...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When the late Brown University researcher Catherine Kerr had cancer, she benefited from an ancient Chinese practice known as qigong and began looking into its impact on others. Now, her colleagues are buildi...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Melanie Wickersheim has no memory of the first time her heart gave her trouble. She was an infant, and her pediatric myocarditis – an inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart – resolv...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Girls have long been thought to have a language advantage over boys as infants. But new research finds that boys make more vocalization sounds than girls do in the early months of life.These squeals, growls ...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An anti-inflammatory drug that has been around for over 2,000 years might help delay a very modern problem: hip and knee replacements.That's the suggestion of a new study finding that older adults who used t...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Lack of energy for exercise is a common problem for folks with so-called long COVID.New research pinpoints the most likely reason why: diminished capacity to get the heart pumping fast enough to support the ...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A nasal spray containing ketamine might help relieve migraine headaches when other treatments fail, a new study suggests.Ketamine is a synthetic anesthetic with hallucinogenic effects that is sometimes used ...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Patients taking semaglutide for type 2 diabetes or weight loss should be careful about where they’re getting the medication, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday.Shortages of the drug, commonl...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia but continues to live at home, the Carter Center announced Tuesday. Carter spends her days there with her husband, former president Jimmy Carter, who himself is ...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Providing sick leave to restaurant workers could help prevent the spread of foodborne illness because ill workers are key drivers of outbreaks at restaurants, a new government report shows.The U.S. Centers fo...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- That happy, confident spring in your step is likely a benefit imparted by human evolution, a new study argues.Humans may have evolved a spring-like arch in our feet to help us better walk and run upright, re...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness around the world, but surgery can restore vision.“Unlike many of the other major eye diseases, such as glaucoma or diabetes-related eye disease, cataracts can be ...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A key to living to 100 may be the viruses living in a centenarian’s guts.“This snapshot of how the virome interacts with gut microbiomes could tell us about how microbial and viral ecology evolves over the l...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- What happens when the blood supply to your bones is somehow damaged?The condition has a name, avascular necrosis, and it can trigger the death of bone cells. Other common names are osteonecrosis or bone infa...
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified the oldest cases of plague in Britain to date, with DNA that is 4,000 years old. The team from the Francis Crick Institute in London has found three ancient British cases of Yersi...