WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with myocardial infarction (MI), beta-blocker (βB) treatment beyond one year after MI does not appear to reduce the risk for mortality or further MI, according to a study published online May 2 i...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Medical cannabis is effective for pain relief in cancer, according to a study published online May 2 in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.Saro Aprikian, from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and colle...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Greenness around the home during early childhood does not seem to protect against eczema, according to a study published online April 7 in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.Minna Lukkarinen, from University of...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Increased physical activity following a stroke is associated with functional recovery at six months, according to a study published online May 1 in JAMA Network Open.Dongni Buvarp, M.D., Ph.D., from Universit...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with cerebral palsy (CP) are more likely to be exposed to opioids and for a longer duration than adults without CP, according to a study published online March 10 in the International Journal of Clinic...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Preterm birth and being large for gestational age (GA) at birth are associated with increased risks for atrial fibrillation (AF) up to middle age independently of familial factors, according to a study publis...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Prostate cancer is not that rare among transgender women, according to a research letter published online April 29 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.Farnoosh Nik-Ahd, M.D., from the Universit...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), bariatric-metabolic surgery is more effective than lifestyle modification plus best medical care, according to a study published online April 20 in The L...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In the spring and summer, everyone races outside with their dogs to enjoy the warmer weather, but a new study suggests there is a downside to that.More children are bitten by dogs in those months, according t...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A patient-centered methodology (PCM) approach outperforms conventional analysis for predicting which melanoma patients would have a positive result on sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), according to a study p...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Overdose deaths in the United States tied to the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl soared 279% from 2016 to 2021, health officials reported Wednesday. With the nation reeling from continued drug overdose dea...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls are, but girls may be more likely to experience anxiety alongside the disorder than boys, new research reveals.Anxiety tends to travel wi...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Self-care means many things to many people. To Dr. Beth Frates, director of lifestyle medicine and wellness in the department of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, it boils ...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- "Mindfulness" practices may help parents of young children with autism manage their daily stressors, and it could benefit their kids in the process, a preliminary study suggests.Parenting is stressful, and st...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Brain cancers are notoriously difficult to treat because most chemotherapy drugs can’t breach the blood-brain barrier, a microscopic layer of cells that protect the brain from toxins.But researchers now say t...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Half of U.S. parents think social media is bad for their kids’ mental health, a new survey reveals. The finding highlights growing concerns about how these platforms affect children’s and adolescents’ well-be...
Mindfulness helps ease the stress of raising a child with autism. In an unexpected upside, researchers found that the children of parents who used mindfulness techniques were better able to regulate their own emotions. Read moreUltrasound used to brea...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Add airplane noise to the list of issues keeping people up at night, at least for those who live near U.S. airports.Researchers found that exposure to airplane sounds -- even at moderate levels -- increased t...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In U.S. states that provide financial assistance for low-income families, the difference is evident in children’s brains, researchers report. Their study found disparities in brain structure between children ...
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a woman's constitutional right to abortion in June, internet searches for information related to abortion and contraception surged.Searches for abortion-related terms i...
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- ChatGPT answered less than half of ophthalmology board certification examination questions correctly, according to a study published online April 27 in JAMA Ophthalmology.Andrew Mihalache, from University of We...
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. regulators are urging Americans to avoid Apetamin, an illegal drug used for weight gain and figure enhancement. The substance, typically sold as a syrup, is manufactured overseas, is illegally imported, an...
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The Biden Administration announced on Monday that it will lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week, as the pandemic public health emergency ends on May 11.Foreign travelers to the United States, He...
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., has declared war on what he calls a "loneliness epidemic" in the United States. Murthy announced a "National Strategy to Advance Social Connection" to address this "epid...
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Incidence of Bell palsy is significantly more common following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection than after receipt of SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations, according to a review publish...
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People seeking medically assisted suicide from any state can now get it in Vermont. The state is the first to allow those with terminal illnesses from out of state to end their lives within its borders, the Ass...
LUNES, 1 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Denegar a una mujer un aborto de emergencia y poner su vida en riesgo violó la ley federal de EE. UU., plantea una investigación del gobierno federal.A la mujer, que entro en trabajo de parto prematuro cuan...
LUNES, 1 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- ¿Podría un procedimiento que dura una hora y que implica aplicar una descarga a una parte de los intestinos significar el fin de la insulina para millones de personas con diabetes tipo 2?Tal vez, según un p...
LUNES, 1 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Un nuevo estudio descubrió un factor de riesgo posible del cáncer de mama, que podría ayudar a los médicos a sopesar con una mayor precisión las probabilidades de una mujer de desarrollar la enfermedad.Aunq...