VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A pesar de las afirmaciones de la industria tabacalera, un nuevo estudio encontró que prohibir los cigarrillos mentolados no condujo a que más personas compraran cigarrillos ilícitos.Los investigadores ...
VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los farmacéuticos podrían tener un rol importante para ayudar a frenar la epidemia de opioides en EE. UU., sugiere un nuevo estudio.Los investigadores estudiaron el impacto de una ley de Rhode Island qu...
VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Hace mucho que se considera que un páncreas artificial es el santo grial para las personas con diabetes tipo 1, y una nueva investigación sugiere que una versión más cómoda de esta tecnología podría ayu...
VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las preocupaciones de que los clérigos insten a sus congregantes deprimidos a confiar en la oración, y no en otros tipos de atención de la salud mental, parecen carecer de fundamento.Una encuesta nacion...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Meditation might help a person’s gut health — but it takes a lot of meditation over a long time.Tibetan Buddhist monks appear to have gut microbes that differ substantially from others living near them, a new...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Between his first and second years of medical school, before he was certain about what he'd specialize in, Ralph Sacco landed a job alongside Dr. Philip Wolf.Sacco's role included feeding pun...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) undergoing elective surgery have lower survival and increased costs in the year following surgery, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in C...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Preoperative touch/relaxation and intraoperative acupuncture treatments are effective for reducing anxiety and pain in the gynecological oncology surgical setting, according to a study published online Jan. 1...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Transfusion of convalescent COVID-19 plasma is associated with a reduction in mortality for immunocompromised patients, according to a systematic review published online Jan. 12 in JAMA Network Open.Jonathon ...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) with refractory viral infections/disease, the T-cell therapy posoleucel is well tolerated and effective, according to a study publish...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The overall risk for hydroxychloroquine retinopathy is 8.6 percent after 15 years, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Ronald B. Melles, M.D., from Kaiser Permanen...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In clinical guidelines published in the January issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, updated recommendations are presented for the evaluation and management of patients with celiac disease (CD),...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with diffuse low-grade glioma, the extent of surgical tumor resection (EOR) is associated with overall survival (OS), with improved OS seen with EOR ≥75 percent, according to a study published on...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In a report from the American Society of Echocardiography, published in the Jan. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, the authors emphasize the role of echocardiography in the m...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For individuals undergoing bone scintigraphy, positive 99mTc-3,3- diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic-acid (99mTc-DPD), indicative of cardiac amyloidosis (CA), is associated with poor outcomes, according to a...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When birth rates fall in the United States, experts try to figure out what’s happening.The fertility rate is at its lowest since the 1970s -- 1.71 per woman, according to a new study.But it's not that young p...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In an article published in the January/February issue of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, the authors present an update to the guidelines for cognitive rehabilitation following traumatic brain injur...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Could losing your hearing as you age be a harbinger of dementia?Maybe, suggests new research that found that older people who had trouble hearing were more likely to develop dementia down the road. But there'...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It's no secret: The standard American diet is at the root of the obesity epidemic and many of its associated diseases. But why is American food so unhealthy? It's not just that Americans eat too much, which t...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It's no secret: The standard American diet is at the root of the obesity epidemic and many of its associated diseases. But why is American food so unhealthy? It's not just that Americans eat too much, which t...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Like many skiers, Dr. Ouida Brown can't narrow her love of the sport down to just one element."I love the scenery," said the orthopedic surgeon from Chicago. "I love the people." She loves be...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- We've all walked past them: Little red, yellow or green boxes with hearts on them and the letters "AED." They can be found in office buildings, gyms, schools, airports, shopping malls – almos...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Major surgery is a challenge for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), raising their odds of death within a year by 61%, new research shows. The researchers also found these patients incur...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 infection in pregnancy raises a woman's risk of death sevenfold and significantly elevates her odds for needing intensive care, a new study finds.Getting the virus during pregnancy also ups the likel...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Fires started by people account for a majority of premature deaths related to inhalation of tiny smoke particles in the United States, a new study reveals. These blazes, which are increasing, led to 20,000 pr...
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For people with a specific type of high blood pressure, British researchers led a new study on a particular CT scan that may enable a cure.In about 5% to 10% of high blood pressure cases, the source is a gene...
Surgery brings added risks to people with COPD. The respiratory condition itself may not cause poor post-surgical outcomes, but most COPD patients are frail and have other chronic conditions that raise health concerns, researchers note. Read moreGetti...
MONDAY, Jan. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A Texas-based education initiative has found that enrolling children in poor communities in gardening and cooking classes may help boost their long-term health.Called “Texas Sprouts," the program covered one f...