WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Total nitrites and additive-originated nitrites are linked to higher diabetes risk, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in PLOS Medicine.Bernard Srour, Ph.D., M.P.H., from Sorbonne Paris Nord Univ...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For children younger than 5 years hospitalized with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), respiratory virus coinfections may increase illness severity, according to a study published...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided radiotherapy offers significant benefit over computed tomography (CT)-guided therapy for treatment of prostate cancer, according to a study published online Jan. 12 i...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A deep learning model can accurately predict future lung cancer risk from a single low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scan, according to a study published online Jan. 12 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For men with low- to intermediate-risk prostate cancer on active surveillance, the negative repeat biopsy rate is high following 90 days of apalutamide, according to a study published in the February issue ...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For ureteroscopic stone management, there is no significant difference between pulse-modulated holmium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Ho:YAG) laser and thulium laser fiber, according to a study published in the F...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A unique inflammation signature, in which atypical B cells are identified, is associated with worse outcomes in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a study published online Jan. 11 in N...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While appendicitis is a common emergency, Black people experiencing its symptoms more often have a delayed diagnosis.But that doesn’t happen in lower-quality hospitals that serve more Black patients, accord...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials say they plan to investigate whether some nursing homes are falsely labeling patients as schizophrenic so they can administer sedating antipsychotic drugs to them.The Centers for Medic...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While childhood obesity gets a lot of attention, some kids struggle with the opposite issue — they have trouble gaining weight.So, how can parents know if their child is “too skinny?”While the best resourc...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While childhood obesity gets a lot of attention, some kids struggle with the opposite issue — they have trouble gaining weight.So, how can parents know if their child is “too skinny?”While the best resourc...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- As a child life specialist in the emergency room of a children's hospital, Christi Eberhardt spent a Wednesday morning getting kids comfortable with their upcoming procedures. She showed th...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- As colds, flu and COVID continue to circulate this winter, a new U.S. government study finds that young children infected with COVID plus a second virus tend to become sicker.While severe COVID is rare amon...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The key to losing weight sounds simple — eat less.Regardless of the diet you follow, dropping the pounds means burning more calories than you eat. That begs the question, how many calories should I eat to l...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The key to losing weight sounds simple — eat less.Regardless of the diet you follow, dropping the pounds means burning more calories than you eat. That begs the question, how many calories should I eat to l...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans who had trouble paying their medical bills dropped precipitously between 2019 and 2021, and funds from the American Rescue Plan and other federal pandemic relief programs may have be...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Not all prescription drugs and dietary herbal supplements work well together. It’s important to be aware of possible drug/supplement interactions that could be harmful, according to the U.S. National Center...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Whether your job is remote or takes you to an office, you'll feel better and offset joint pain by having a workspace that's designed to work for you instead of against you. The biggest problem isn’t sitting...
Kids' COVID more dangerous when the flu, RSV are also present. Those co-infected with COVID and the flu or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are more likely to need help breathing or spend time in the ICU, a new study shows. Read morePandemic funding ...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Children's asthma appears to be increasing in states that have legalized cannabis, according to a study published online Dec. 30 in Preventive Medicine.Renee D. Goodwin, Ph.D., from the City University of New...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing liver transplant (LT), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) viral load (VL) monitoring may reduce the incidence of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD), according to a study published...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Nurses perceive that a novel rooming-in program for caregivers of infants with critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) may improve outcomes, according to a study published in the January issue of the America...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For children with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, genomic sequencing yielded genetic diagnoses for most families, according to a study published online Jan. 12 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer melanoma cases are seen among individuals with regular use of oral vitamin D supplements, according to a study published online Dec. 28 in Melanoma Research.Emilia Kanasuo, from the University of Easter...
If you're looking to quit smoking cigarettes and tobacco products, start here. We know it’s a tough road, but there are now many research-backed tools available to help you kick the tobacco habit for good.Cigarettes are probably the first things that ...
VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Mientras los estadounidenses se esfuerzan por comer mejor, las dietas de origen vegetal se han puesto de moda, pero, ¿qué son exactamente y qué tan difícil es seguirlas?Un creciente número de personas h...
VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El peso del agua. Es la pesadilla de las personas que hacen dieta, porque provoca hinchazón, inflamación y decepción cuando se sube a la báscula.Aunque el 60 por ciento del cuerpo es agua, a veces se re...
VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los médicos ya evalúan el oído y la vista de los adultos mayores. El sentido del olfato se podría algún día añadir a estas pruebas de detección, según unos investigadores, que encontraron vínculos entre...
VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El aislamiento social es un factor de riesgo sustancial de la demencia en los adultos mayores, según dos estudios que amplían las evidencias de investigaciones anteriores sobre este peligro.Pero estos n...