LUNES, 13 de marzo de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Casi un tercio de las personas mayores se caen cada año, la mayoría en sus propios hogares. Pero reducir estas cifras en una cuarta parte es posible, según un nuevo estudio.Cinco medidas pueden reducir el...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Novo Nordisk Inc. on Tuesday became the third drug company to say it will slash prices on some of its insulin products.Starting in January 2024, there will be a 75% price cut for NovoLog and NovoLog Mix 70/3...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Newer scanning technology may spot more breast cancers and lower the rate of dreaded false positives, a large, new study shows.Now available in a growing number of health care facilities, tomosynthesis uses ...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Practicing yoga might help older adults become a little surer on their feet, a new research review suggests.The review, of 33 small clinical trials, found that older adults who participated in yoga programs ...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Since it began in 2004, a global effort led by the United States to combat HIV has dramatically increased the number of people it helps, a new government report shows.In its report, the U.S. Centers for Dise...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. water utilities will be required to remove certain “forever chemicals” from drinking water as the Biden administration sets first-ever limits on perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl compounds, better know...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Genital herpes. It's an embarrassing sexually transmitted disease that no one ever wants to be diagnosed with, but millions are.According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sexually tran...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The rate of cardiac arrest during delivery hospitalizations is 13.4 per 100,000, with cardiac arrest occurring more often among older patients, non-Hispanic Blacks, and those with an underlying medical condi...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An artificial intelligence (AI) model can distinguish histological remission from activity in biopsies of ulcerative colitis (UC) and can predict flare-ups, according to a study published online March 3 in G...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new risk prediction model can identify residents of nursing homes at greatest risk for fall-related injuries, according to a study published online March 8 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Students who make threats toward others at school have diverse psychiatric profiles and often do not receive recommended treatments, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Aca...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Race and ethnicity reporting has improved significantly in pediatric clinical trials, but there is still underrepresentation of certain racial and ethnic groups, according to a study published online March 1...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For older adults, yoga seems beneficial for markers of frailty compared with education or inactive control, according to a systematic review published online March 13 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Julia...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- LeeAnn Walton rushed from work to a fitness club in New York City to lead a yoga class. Her classes had become so popular that she was booked daily at locations in and around Manhattan.Teach...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A coordinated, multifaceted intervention increases prescription of three groups of evidence-based therapies in adults with type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a stu...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Hospital tap water and ice can represent a source of infection for vulnerable patients, according to a study published online March 7 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Michael Klompas, M.D., M.P.H., from Ha...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A healthy sleep pattern is associated with a lower risk for premature mortality and higher life expectancy among U.S. adults, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American College of C...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Daybue (trofinetide) for the treatment of Rett syndrome in adult and pediatric patients aged 2 years and older.Approval was based on results from the phase 3...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When Americans have medical debt, it’s typically to a hospital, according to new research. The Urban Institute found that more than 15% of non-elderly adults in the United States have past-due medical debt. ...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was released from the hospital on Monday and sent to a rehabilitation facility, after suffering a concussion last Wednesday night following a fall at a dinner.“Lea...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It may be possible to nudge your vaccine to work a little better. The trick is a good night’s sleep.Sleep helps the immune system respond to vaccination, according to a new meta-analysis of past research, pu...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- On the third anniversary of the pandemic, a new poll shows fewer older adults are experiencing loneliness and isolation though the numbers are still high. About one-third of adults aged 50 to 80 still someti...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The children of women who took a common anti-nausea drug for pregnancy in the 1960s and 1970s may be at higher risk of colon cancer, according to a new study.The drug, dicyclomine, is used to treat spasms ca...
TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It might seem like a move to rural living could bring calm and even happiness, but new research suggests that isn’t always so. A study from the University of Houston found that those living in the country we...
MONDAY, March 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- From 2019 to 2020, there was an increase in the rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and sudden unexplained infant death (SUID) rates increased among non-Hispanic Black infants, according to a study p...
MONDAY, March 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The age-adjusted prevalence of subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is 9.6 percent among adults aged 45 years and older, according to research published in the March 10 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Co...
MONDAY, March 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For women aged 18 to 55 years, ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) hospitalization rates decreased during 2008 to 2019, with the decline driven by a reduced proportion of hospitalizations among...
MONDAY, March 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events, according to a study published online Feb. 24 in JAMA Network Open.Stacey E. Alexeeff, Ph....