TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A stop-smoking mobile app that senses where and when one might be triggered to smoke could help people quit, according to a study published online April 14 in Nicotine & Tobacco Research.Felix Naughton, Ph.D...
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A conditioned open-label placebo (C-OLP) may be a beneficial, low-risk adjunct to methadone treatment of opioid use disorder, according to a study published online April 12 in JAMA Network Open.Annabelle M. ...
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Greater Black representation in the primary care provider (PCP) workforce is associated with better population health measures for Black individuals, according to a study published online April 14 in JAMA Ne...
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A leading doctors' group recommends that toddlers get screening for autism at 18 months old. That may not be a moment too soon — and earlier may be even better, researchers say.A new randomized clinical tria...
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Could taxing soda cut down on the consumption of sugary drinks?That's exactly what happened when a local “soda tax” was launched in Oakland, Calif., according to researchers from the University of California...
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Poverty is the fourth-greatest cause of death in the United States, according to new research. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside estimate that poverty was associated with 183,000 deaths ...
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Most people think of joint pain when they think of arthritis but, depending on the type of arthritis, other symptoms can crop up.Here's how to spot some of the most common signs of different types of arthrit...
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- In the early months of 2021, heavy snow blanketed the city of Philadelphia.Justin Stroh and his wife, Bess, both in their 60s, had been taking turns shoveling the snow in front of their subu...
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Striking a better work-life balance might make you a more effective manager on the job, according to a new study.A survey of managers and their employees found that bosses who could shut off after-work email...
SATURDAY, April 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It’s important for children to learn about body safety and boundaries.Empowering them with information can help them recognize unsafe situations and may help protect them from abuse.“Children and teens who ...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Age-adjusted suicide rates in the United States increased from 2001 to 2018, then decreased to 2020, and increased in 2021, according to an April data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Higher percentages of women of childbearing age (18 to 49 years old) do not think that vaccination against COVID-19 and the flu during pregnancy is safe versus older women (aged 50 years and older) and all ad...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- During the pandemic, nearly 100,000 U.S. registered nurses called it quits, a new survey shows. A combination of stress, burnout, and retirements created a perfect storm for the exodus.Even worse, another 610...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on Friday to pause parts of a recent federal ruling that limits the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone.The temporary stay, which expires at midnight on We...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill that bans abortions in that state after six weeks, with exemptions only given up to 15 weeks for rape, incest, and the life and health of the pregnant woman...
JUEVES, 13 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A medida que las personas con VIH viven más tiempo, están en riesgo de enfermedad cardiaca prematura. Pero un nuevo estudio encuentra que las estatinas pueden reducir el riesgo de problemas cardiacos gra...
JUEVES, 13 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- No es nada nuevo que los jóvenes desarrollen un interés por su cantante de pop o actor favorito, pero puede ser problemático cuando esta adoración se vuelve tóxica.Es más fácil que nunca perderse en la i...
JUEVES, 13 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Parece sacado de una novela de vampiros, pero en las personas que sufren de un grupo de trastornos genéticos raros, la exposición a la luz del sol puede provocar un dolor agónico. Ahora, un fármaco exper...
JUEVES, 13 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas que sufren de alergias y asma quizá piensen que sus síntomas son más intensos y que duran más tiempo esta primavera.Y no se lo están imaginando. El clima cambiante significa que las temporad...
JUEVES, 13 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El miércoles, Juul Labs llegó a un acuerdo de 462 millones de dólares con varios estados sobre el agresivo mercadeo de sus cigarrillos electrónicos dirigido a los menores de edad.Este último acuerdo incl...
JUEVES, 13 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las siestas diurnas de más de media hora parecen casi duplicar el riesgo de una persona de desarrollar un latido cardiaco irregular, informa un estudio reciente.Las personas que toman siestas de 30 minut...
JUEVES, 13 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Cientos de miles de inmigrantes que llegaron ilegalmente a Estados Unidos en la niñez podrían pronto ser elegibles para recibir la atención de la salud financiada por fondos federales. El jueves, el Pres...
JUEVES, 13 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Independientemente de cómo son concebidos, los niños están bien.Esta es la conclusión principal de un nuevo estudio de investigadores británicos, que no encontraron ninguna diferencia real en el bienesta...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Can treating hearing loss lower your chances of developing dementia down the road?Maybe, claims new research that found that folks who are experiencing hearing loss and don’t use a hearing aid may have a high...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The Biden administration filed an emergency application on Friday that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to pause parts of a recent federal ruling that limit the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone.On We...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Most racial and ethnic-minority groups had a higher incidence of mpox than non-Hispanic White men, according to research published in the April 14 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The annual average emergency department visit rate for suicidal ideation was 40 visits per 10,000 people in 2016 to 2020, according to an April data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control an...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For people with hearing loss, use of hearing aids is associated with a reduction in the risk for dementia to a similar level to that of people without hearing loss, according to a study published online April...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Multimodal analysis of genome-wide data can diagnose probands with severe, probably monogenic, difficult-to-diagnose developmental disorders, according to a study published online April 12 in the New England ...
FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of health care-associated infections (HAIs) was higher among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 than for patients without COVID-19, according to a study published online April 13 in JAMA Networ...