MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It's an all-too-familiar scenario for many parents: Your preschooler starts to act up just as the phone rings or you start dinner.Maybe you hand over an iPad or smartphone to soothe the child so you can get do...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Having COPD can make it hard to breathe as it taxes both the lungs and the heart, but a new study offers a possible solution: Using an air purifier helped patients' hearts work better.Researchers found that wh...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Characteristics, results, and final interpretations are generally consistent for clinical studies posted as preprints on medRxiv and subsequently published in peer-reviewed journals, according to a study publi...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Vegetable intake is associated with a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D), while potato intake does not increase risk after accounting for underlying dietary pattern, according to study published online Dec...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Various inequities have been identified in ophthalmologic care, including negative ophthalmic outcomes for Black and Hispanic patients, according to a review published online Dec. 8 in JAMA Ophthalmology.Chris...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In high- and upper-middle-income countries, babies born to women from underserved and underrepresented racial and ethnic groups have an increased risk for adverse perinatal outcomes, according to a study publi...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Extreme hot and cold temperatures are associated with an increased risk for mortality from common cardiovascular conditions, according to a study published online Dec. 12 in Circulation.Barrak Alahmad, M.D., M...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Youth sports team participation is associated with increased odds of electronic vapor product (EVP) use, according to a study published online Dec. 12 in Pediatrics.Eli Rapoport, from the New York University G...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the addition of a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor (TNFi) or addition of sulfasalazine and hydroxychloroquine (triple therapy) to methotrexate results in clini...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A model including nine urine metabolites can predict preeclampsia early in pregnancy, according to a study published in the Dec. 9 issue of Patterns.Ivana Marić, Ph.D., from the Stanford University School of M...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, node-negative early breast cancer (EBC) with a 21-gene recurrence score (RS) of 11 to 25, adjuvant en...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental immunotherapy appears highly effective in attacking bone marrow cancer, with nearly three in four patients responding to the treatment, new clinical trial results show.The drug, talquetamab, wo...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Capitalism is thought to bring out the best in workers, but there's a dark side to tying a person's everyday efforts to their weekly paycheck.Folks relying on short-term, freelanced office jobs, or jobs where ...
Gig economy could be harming workers' health. People whose work is piecemeal and sometimes depends on tips and commissions tend to be in poorer health than workers with more stable incomes, new research confirms. Read moreHow climate change could brin...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Both extremely hot and very cold days take their toll on people who have heart disease, particularly those with heart failure.A new multinational analysis of 32 million heart-related deaths over the past 40 ye...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If someone is stricken with a blood cancer or life-threatening clot, they’ll probably fare better if they are white and wealthy, three new studies show.The ongoing impact of patient race and income to medical ...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Before you toast the holiday season with too much alcohol, here's a sobering thought.Folks who get injured severely enough while intoxicated to require hospital treatment are five times more likely to die in t...
MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) – As three highly contagious respiratory viruses spread across the United States, straining hospitals and triggering drug shortages, health officials in some major cities and states are calling for a return to in...
THURSDAY, June 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Hot flashes are a common -- and uncomfortable -- symptom of menopause.More than 80% of menopausal women experience sudden, often debilitating bursts of heat that last several minutes, according to the U.S. F...
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) revolutionized treatment for male infertility. The procedure, introduced in 1992, involves taking single motile sperm and directly injecting the sperm into the egg to initiate the fertilization process. ICSI nec...
MONDAY, June 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- MONDAY, June 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Understanding circumcision can help you speed your baby boy’s healing process and be aware of any complications that may arise.Here, professionals offer advice on what c...
SUNDAY, Dec. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Skiiers and snowboarders, take note: You're less likely to get hurt if you ease back into the winter sports season.“We see a lot of patients in the After-Hours Clinic (of the department of orthopaedic surgery...
SUNDAY, Dec. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Skiiers and snowboarders, take note: You're less likely to get hurt if you ease back into the winter sports season.“We see a lot of patients in the After-Hours Clinic (of the department of orthopaedic surgery...
SATURDAY, Dec. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From burns to cuts, kitchen accidents happen, and they may be more likely as you cook for holiday gatherings.Treating those injuries quickly and effectively can help begin the healing process and may reduce ...
FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The number of active prescriptions for buprenorphine remained stable during the COVID-19 pandemic, with fewer new treatment episodes and fewer episodes ending, according to a study published online Dec. 6 in th...
FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Longer duration and more pack-years of cigarette smoking are associated with a higher risk for recurrence of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), according to a study published online Nov. 30 in JAMA Net...
FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Ophthalmology had the lowest use of telehealth among clinical specialties during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Dec. 1 in JAMA Ophthalmology.Arman Mosenia, M...