TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The United States spends up to four times more on health care than most wealthy nations, but it doesn't have much to show for it.Life expectancy in America continues to decline even though this country spends...
TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Young adults with depression or overall poor mental health report more heart attacks, strokes and risk factors for cardiovascular disease than their peers without mental health issues, new re...
TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Dylan Dorrell fell in love with running when he was in kindergarten and ran a 5K with his mom on Mother's Day. As a 17-year-old senior in high school, he'd just finished practicing with his c...
MARTES, 31 de enero de 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Los adultos jóvenes que padecen de depresión o de mala salud mental en general informan más ataques cardíacos, derrames cerebrales y factores de riesgo para enfermedad cardiovascular que...
TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The two COVID emergency measures declared by the White House at the start of the pandemic will end in May.President Joe Biden informed Congress of the plan on Monday, as part of a statement opposing House Rep...
TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Tying the knot is now tied to healthier aging brains: People who stay married for the long haul may gain some protection from dementia, a new study suggests.Researchers found that compared with both divorced...
TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The "love hormone" oxytocin might not play the critical role in forming social bonds that scientists have long believed, a new animal study suggests.Prairie voles bred without receptors for oxytocin display t...
TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There's good news for American mothers-to-be and their newborns: Rates of smoking during pregnancy have fallen by 36% since 2016, a new report finds.The percentage of pregnant women who smoked was already low...
Marriage could be a buffer against dementia. Compared to married folk, divorced and unmarried adults were 50% to 73% more likely to be diagnosed with dementia, a new study has found. Read moreIs oxytocin really the 'love hormone'? It's been touted for...
TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People who have autism feel pain at a higher intensity than others, which is the opposite of what many believe to be true, new research suggests. The prevailing belief is that those with autism are indifferen...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with stenosis with or without spondylolisthesis, surgical treatment is associated with significantly lower mortality and total medical payments at two years compared with nonsurgical treatment, ac...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In an article published online Jan. 26 in Emerging Infectious Disease, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, factors associated with long COVID are explored in a sample of COVID...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Behavioral nudges to prompt serious illness conversations (SICs) between oncology clinicians and patients can increase SICs for all patients and can reduce end-of-life systemic therapy, according to a study pu...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The pandemic has reached a "transition point," the World Health Organization said Monday. Still, that does not mean the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) designation declared by the WHO ...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Transgender youth in Utah are now blocked from receiving gender-affirming surgery and hormone therapy after Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill Saturday that largely bans such care for youth. Cox said that the ban ...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Living in a U.S. state where recreational weed is legal does not appear to increase the average adult’s risk of succumbing to “reefer madness,” a new study of twins has determined.An adult living in a “legal” ...
VIERNES, 27 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Unas duraderas restricciones sobre las donaciones de sangre para los hombres gais y bisexuales podrían pronto cambiarse por una política más matizada, en que en su lugar se pregunta a estos hombres sobr...
VIERNES, 27 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El sistema inmunitario potenciado de los niños les permite vencer a la COVID-19 fácilmente, y producir una fuerte respuesta inmunitaria inicial que se deshace del virus con rapidez.Pero esta marcada rea...
VIERNES, 27 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- "Lo que no se usa se pierde", como dice el refrán, pero hacer ejercicio o jugar deportes en exceso puede conducir a lesiones por uso excesivo.Estas lesiones pueden incluir daños en los huesos, los ligam...
VIERNES, 27 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Algunos reclusos de California podrían comenzar a recibir ciertos servicios de salud limitados, entre ellos el tratamiento para el abuso de sustancias y los diagnósticos de salud mental, usando fondos d...
VIERNES, 27 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El jueves, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) de EE. UU. dijo que no puede regular los complementos de CBD, porque no hay suficientes evidencias sobre su seguridad. La agencia también p...
VIERNES, 27 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los adultos que viven en las áreas rurales, y los hombres negros en particular, tienen un riesgo mucho más alto de desarrollar insuficiencia cardiaca.La insuficiencia cardiaca es una afección crónica y ...
VIERNES, 27 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los investigadores han descubierto un grave riesgo para las personas que tienen un cromosoma X o Y adicional.Los que tienen la afección genética conocida como aneuploidía sexual supernumeraria tienen un...
VIERNES, 27 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El tiempo invernal puede añadir otro peligro a la conducta de deambulación, que es común en las personas con demencia.La Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) ofrece algunas sugerencias para ayudar a ...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The pandemic has reached a “transition point,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. Still, that doesn’t mean the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) designation declared by the...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- If you find yourself stuck in a traffic jam and you start to feel fuzzy-headed, the diesel exhaust from the truck in front of you might be to blame.New research found that just two hours of exposure to diesel ...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Infants exposed to maternal smoking during pregnancy are more than five times more likely to die unexpectedly compared to babies of nonsmokers, a new study says."The message is simple. Smoking greatly elevates...
MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A considerable proportion of adults with diabetes do not maintain continuity of use of glucose, blood pressure, or lipid medications, according to a study published online Jan. 30 in JAMA Network Open.Puneet K...
