TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past few years the escalating opioid crisis has touched off a complex debate about how best to reign in suicide risk among patients who are prescribed the addictive painkillers.The question: Could r...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Adding menthol flavoring to electronic cigarettes may damage your lungs more than regular e-cigarettes do, a new study reveals.The common mint flavoring helps deliver lots more toxic microparticles, compared...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The death rate among babies born to teen moms has dropped over the past 25 years -- but racial disparities stubbornly persist, a new U.S. government study finds.Compared with the late 1990s, fewer babies bor...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Shelley Davis packed shorts, bathing suits and sunscreen for a weeklong cruise with her husband, Greg, and their 13- and 15-year-old daughters.The morning before boarding the ship in Port Ca...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Being hospitalized for COVID-19 is associated with an increased risk for death compared with hospitalization for seasonal influenza, according to a research letter published online April 6 in the Journal of ...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Significant disparities exist in patient selection for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), according to a study published online April 5 in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.Anuj B. Mehta, ...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 pandemic led to a change in how Americans view risks for obesity and benefits of treatment, according to a study published online March 8 in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases.Roger Kissin...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnancy-related mortality increased more rapidly in 2021 than in 2020, according to a study published online March 16 in Obstetrics & Gynecology.Marie E. Thoma, Ph.D., from the University of Maryland in Co...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Use of telemedicine during the pandemic may have improved some aspects of depression care, according to a study published in the April issue of Medical Care.Nancy S. Weinfield, Ph.D., from the Kaiser Permane...
TIESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnancy-associated cancers are associated with increased five-year mortality, according to a study published online April 6 in JAMA Oncology.Zoe F. Cairncross, M.P.H., from the University of Calgary in Can...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Social determinants of health (SDOH), across multiple domains, are associated with vision loss, according to a study published online April 6 in JAMA Ophthalmology.Katelin M. Alfaro Hudak, Ph.D., from NORC a...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) – The national and public health emergencies for COVID-19 officially ended Monday after President Joe Biden signed a Republican-backed bill to end the emergency a month earlier than planned.The White House had ...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- People who strongly adhere to a set of cardiovascular health metrics may live close to a decade longer than those who don't, new research suggests.The study, published Monday in Circulation,...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Jouncing along to school in a fume-spewing, rattletrap yellow bus is practically a rite of passage for most American students.But outdated buses actually wind up costing kids many days of education, thanks t...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) – The U.S. Justice Department on Monday appealed a Texas court ruling that invalidates the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval in 2020 of mifepristone, the first of two drugs taken during a medical abo...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Your toddler may be going through a phase of nail-biting that might be driving you crazy.While biting or picking at one's nails is a common behavior in children (50% do it) and many will stop biting their na...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 20% of the American population has had a family member killed by a gun, including by suicide, and 1 in 6 has witnessed a shooting, a new survey found.The survey -- by nonprofit KFF -- also found abou...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Wireless pacemakers could be a safe and effective short-term option for children with slow heartbeats, a new study suggests.Children with a heartbeat that’s too slow — a condition called bradycardia — need a...
Move to 'green' school buses could boost kids' class attendance. Outdated buses actually wind up costing kids many days of education, thanks to the clouds of diesel exhaust left in their wake, a new study argues. Read more1 in 5 American adults say th...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Forcibly moving homeless people away from their encampments is a widespread practice in the United States. And it may be killing them.A new study found significant spikes in deaths, overdoses and hospitaliza...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Even as many U.S. nuclear reactors reach the end of their estimated life spans, the country still gets nearly 20% of its power from these sites. Now, new research claims that shutting them down could increas...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In the early days of the mpox virus outbreak in the United States, vaccines got to the states that needed them but distribution was unequal across racial groups, new research reveals.Black and Hispanic patie...
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There are too many heartbreaking stories of babies and young children suffering serious injury or even death due to an accident in the home. You hope it doesn’t happen to your family, and taking preventive m...
MONDAY, April 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Among people who inject drugs (PWID), the pooled incidences of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are 1.7 and 12.1 per 100 person-years, respectively, with increased risks in young PWID and in women, according t...
The annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology was held from March 17 to 21 in New Orleans and attracted more than 12,000 participants from around the world, including clinicians, academicians, allied health professionals, and others inter...
MONDAY, April 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For infants with craniosynostosis, socioeconomic disadvantages and comorbid conditions are more prevalent among those undergoing delayed cranial vault remodeling (CVR), according to a study published in the A...
MONDAY, April 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued another warning about certain sleep apnea machines made by Philips Respironics. Already the subject of a 2021 recall, some of the company's repaired continuous...
MONDAY, April 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A Texas federal judge has issued a preliminary ruling that invalidates the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 2000 of mifepristone, the first of two drugs most commonly taken during a medical abort...
VIERNES, 7 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Cuatro de cada 10 personas que tiene problemas de salud persistentes tras una infección con la COVID-19 presentan molestas dificultades para dormir entre ellos.Alrededor de un 41 por ciento de las person...
VIERNES, 7 de abril de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Dos brotes en curso del virus de Marburgo en África han hecho que las autoridades de salud de EE. UU. emitieran el jueves una alerta para que los médicos estén atentos a cualquier caso que pudiera surgir...