WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For sufferers of sleep apnea, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines may guard against having a second heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular crisis, but they have to use it consistently, ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Federal regulators on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to an updated Novavax COVID vaccine, giving Americans a more traditional alternative to two recently revamped mRNA vaccines.Adolescents and adults who have pre...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Recent research has suggested that viruses could play a role in the loss of pancreatic beta cells, which triggers type 1 diabetes. Now, a new trial finds antiviral medications, when given soon after a child ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- New research has discovered 12 gene variants that may be tied to an increased risk of attempting suicide. These genes also may have links with physical and mental health woes, including chronic pain, attenti...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) – People who experience flooding aren’t just at risk during these severe weather events — they also have a significantly higher risk of dying in the weeks that follow.A new study by Australian scientists looked a...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A machine learning model that uses only data on age, smoking duration, and pack-years can predict lung cancer risk and identify who needs lung cancer screening with better performance than currently used metho...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Maternal psychosocial stress and COVID-19 infection during pregnancy may have joint effects on infant attention at six months, according to a study published online Sept. 27 in Pediatric Research.Denise M. Wer...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Pharmaceutical companies that make the 10 prescription drugs chosen to be the first for price negotiations for Medicare patients have agreed to talks with the government.The Biden administration announced Tues...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Federal regulators are cautioning doctors not to give probiotics to preterm infants. An infant given probiotics at an undisclosed hospital has died, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said in a recent...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Health care workers who serve millions of Americans could strike Wednesday if Kaiser Permanente and union workers do not reach an agreement.More than 75,000 members of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions...
MARTES, 3 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El Premio Nobel de este año en Fisiología o Medicina ha sido otorgado a dos científicos que, años atrás, sentaron las bases para la investigación de ARNm que hizo posible las vacunas contra el COVID-19....
MARTES, 3 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de los EE. UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) están a punto de recomendar el uso de un potente antibiótico para prevenir las infecciones de t...
La lactancia materna en la infancia se relaciona con un peso más saludable en el futuro de los niños
MARTES, 3 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) — La ciencia revela que lo que un bebé come, o cómo lo come, puede tener un impacto en su peso y salud futura.Un nuevo estudio respalda esa afirmación. Encontró que los niños de 9 años que habían sido amam...
MARTES, 3 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Nuevas investigaciones muestran que el virus SARS-CoV-2, causante de COVID-19 puede infectar directamente las arterias coronarias, favoreciendo la placa de ateroma en su interior, lo que puede aumentar e...
MARTES, 3 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) — La abuela lo sabía desde siempre: ciertos lugares en el cuerpo son "puntos calientes" para microbios poco saludables.Esa noción, a la que los autores de un nuevo estudio llamaron "la hipótesis de la abue...
MARTES, 3 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Una dieta rica en granos enteros, frutas y verduras no almidonadas es la mejor receta para las personas de mediana edad que intentan mantener su peso bajo control, según encuentra una nueva investigación...
MARTES, 3 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) – Se ha demostrado que los medicamentos que reducen el deseo de consumo, ayudan con el trastorno por el uso de opioides, sin embargo, casi un tercio de los beneficiarios de Medicaid que enfrentan adicción ...
MARTES, 3 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) - Para la mayoría de las personas, no hay razón para renunciar al gluten definitivamente.Pero eso no es tan fácil para las personas con dos condiciones médicas relacionadas con el gluten: la enfermedad cel...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Pharmaceutical companies that make the 10 prescription drugs chosen to be the first for price negotiations for Medicare patients have agreed to talks with the government.The Biden administration announced Tues...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking dark tea daily may help balance blood sugar levels and stave off type 2 diabetes, the form of the disease most closely tied to obesity.This is the main message from a new study that looked at tea-drin...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) program could grow into a source of accurate and comprehensive medical information, but it’s not quite ready for prime time yet, a new study reports.ChatGPT’s responses...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), a higher total vascular score (TVS) based on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging at diagnosis is associated with a greater incr...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For adults with a history of smoking and normal spirometry, suspected bronchiectasis is associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality, according to a study published online Oct. 3 in the Annals of ...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In yet another reminder of the psychic toll the pandemic has taken on young people, new research shows spending on mental health services for U.S. children and adolescents has risen sharply since 2020.It climb...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Cystic fibrosis (CF)-related mortality rates declined and the median age of death among CF decedents increased in the United States from 1999 to 2020, according to a study published online Sept. 12 in Scientif...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A clinical pharmacist and health coach-delivered mobile health intervention can improve blood glucose levels in African American and Latinx populations, according to a study published online Sept. 29 in JAMA N...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Women aged younger than 50 years have a markedly lower hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) distribution than men, according to a study published online Sept. 30 in Diabetes Therapy to coincide with the annual meeting of th...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Some common medications -- including antidepressants, sleep aids and painkillers -- may dull the driving skills of seniors, a new study finds.Many different medication classes have been linked to the risk of d...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There have been some increases in diversity in early-phase cancer clinical trials since 2000, according to a study presented at the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Et...
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Sexual and gender-minority (SGM) patients with chronic inflammatory skin diseases (CISDs) are more likely to experience cost and noncost barriers to care, according to a study published online Sept. 27 in JAMA...