FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors are seeing an alarming increase in cases of a specific genital malformation in male babies, and new research suggests environmental factors might be at play.The malformation is known as hypospadias, wh...
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers believe they have found a link between lower bacterial diversity in the intestine's microbiome and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).Normally, “more than 10,000 species of microorganism live in the hu...
What you need to know about XBB, the new COVID variant. The variant is much more infectious, and evidence shows it can evade human immune systems much more easily. Read morePlane wastewater study shows how COVID restrictions failed. Tests of toilet ta...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- High cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) levels are associated with a reduced risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online Jan. 17 in GeroScience.Setor K. Kunutsor, M.D., Ph.D., f...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Health care utilization is increased in the six months following COVID-19 infection, but vaccination can lower the risk for long COVID symptoms, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in JAMA Network ...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There are long-lasting associations between multiple or persistent regulatory problems (RPs) in childhood and behavioral problems that extend into adulthood, according to a study published online Jan. 5 in t...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Prenatal exposure to non-tailpipe air pollution emissions is associated with development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in young children, according to a study published in the January issue of Environmen...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In yet another setback for the future of HIV prevention, the only HIV vaccine in a late-stage trial has failed, study leaders announced Wednesday. Launched in 2019 as a partnership between the U.S. governmen...
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando se trata de perder peso, lo que parece ser más importante es la frecuencia y la cantidad que come, en lugar del momento en que come.Esta es la conclusión de un nuevo estudio que se enfocó en lo...
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- En el ambiente político altamente polarizado de hoy en día, ¿es posible mantenerse al día con las noticias del día sin estresarse del todo?Si no, ¿hay una forma de limitar las secuelas emocionales y f...
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Aunque la apendicitis es una emergencia común, las personas negras que experimentan sus síntomas reciben un diagnóstico retrasado con una mayor frecuencia.Pero eso no ocurre en los hospitales con una ...
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Aunque la obesidad infantil recibe mucha atención, algunos niños se enfrentan al problema contrario: tienen dificultades para aumentar de peso.¿Cómo pueden saber si su hijo está "demasiado flaco"?Aunq...
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- No todos los medicamentos recetados y complementos dietéticos herbales funcionan bien juntos.Es importante conocer las posibles interacciones entre medicamentos y complementos que podrían ser nocivas,...
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El número de estadounidenses que tuvieron problemas para pagar sus facturas médica se desplomó entre 2019 y 2021, y los fondos del Plan de Rescate Estadounidense (American Rescue Plan) y otros program...
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las autoridades de salud de EE. UU. señalan que planifican investigar si algunos hogares de ancianos califican falsamente a los pacientes como esquizofrénicos para poder administrarles antipsicóticos ...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be an even bigger predictor of depression and anxiety in adulthood than autism is, a new study finds — highlighting the mental health side of the disorder....
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For older adults, higher levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are associated with increased fracture risk, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in JAMA Cardiology.Sultana Monira Hu...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The number of daily meals, but not the mean interval between meals, is associated with weight change, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.Di Zhau, P...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Emergency departments with high pediatric readiness have lower short-term and long-term mortality among children, according to a study published online Jan. 13 in JAMA Network Open.Craig D. Newgard, M.D., fr...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When people undergo surgery for broken arms or legs, they are often injected with prescription blood thinners to reduce their risk of developing potentially life-threatening blood clots in their lungs and le...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for advanced colorectal neoplasms (ADNs) 10 or more years after a negative screening colonoscopy is low, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in JAMA Internal Medicine.Thomas Heisser, from ...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It doesn’t matter which water pill you’re prescribed to treat your heart failure, because new trial data shows that one works as well as the other.Two diuretics widely used to treat heart failure, furosemide...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A prognostic model using 12 clinical variables improves prediction of cerebral palsy (CP) compared with clinical presentation with encephalopathy, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in JAMA Pediat...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Clinical characteristics, outcomes, and genetic features vary among different myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) subtypes categorized using the 2022 International Consensus Classification (ICC), according to a s...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM), mass spectrometry (MS) can monitor treatment response, according to a study published online Jan. 4 in Blood Cancer Journal.Elias K. Mai, M.D., from H...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for newly diagnosed gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is increased for patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) versus peritoneal dialysis (PD), according to a study published online Jan. 2 in Scientific ...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A web-based system is efficacious for the diagnosis and treatment of recurrent benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), according to a study published online Jan. 17 in JAMA Neurology.Hyo-Jung Kim, Ph.D...
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Race and ethnicity and area-level social determinants of health (SDOH) are associated with delayed or discontinued cancer treatment among patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-C...