MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The HIV prevention and care service was resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic, and services partially rebounded in quarter 3 (Q3) of 2020 following a decline in Q2, according to research published in the Dec....
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- More than 40 percent of U.S. adults have serology indicative of past COVID-19 infection, of whom 43.7 percent report never having had COVID-19, according to research published in the Dec. 2 issue of the U.S. C...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and COVID-19 are creating a perfect storm of respiratory disease that is overwhelming the nation's health care systems.Vaccination will be key to patients getting through...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Infants and young children could soon receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine as part of their three-dose series.Pfizer Inc. on Monday asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to have the vaccine that targets th...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Laundress, a laundry and cleaning products company, has recalled nearly 8 million of its products over concerns they may be contaminated with various bacteria.The bacteria include Burkholderia cepacia compl...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The last of six COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatments has lost its federal authorization because, like the others, it no longer works against the newest omicron subvariants.This last monoclonal antibody was b...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Mpox cases are down significantly in the United States, prompting the federal government to plan not to renew an emergency designation for the virus when it expires late next month."Given the low number of case...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Flu, RSV and COVID-19 are creating a perfect storm of respiratory disease that is overwhelming the nation's health care systems.Vaccination will be key to getting through the winter holidays with your health in...
VIERNES, 2 de diciembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los costos de los antiepilépticos se disparan en Estados Unidos, superan a la inflación y presionan a las aseguradoras federales Medicare y Medicaid, según una nueva investigación.El gasto en los ant...
VIERNES, 2 de diciembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una línea de asistencia nacional a la que las personas pueden llamar en caso de una emergencia de salud mental sufrió un corte durante todo un día, antes de ser restaurada a última hora del jueves.La...
VIERNES, 2 de diciembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Se piensa que para que una vacuna contra el VIH tenga una amplia efectividad, tendrá que hacer que el cuerpo produzca unos anticuerpos especiales que puedan neutralizar a una amplia variedad de cepas...
VIERNES, 2 de diciembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La energía eólica se está popularizando como una fuente de energía viable, y una nueva investigación muestra que la calidad del aire de EE. UU. está mejorando, lo que beneficia a la salud de todos lo...
VIERNES, 22 de diciembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La temporada de fiestas de invierno son un momento de celebración, y para compartir unos inestimables momentos con la familia y los amigos, pero también puede resultar letal: más personas mueren de ...
'Progresión tumoral', 'hallazgos positivos': la jerga médica con frecuencia confunde a los pacientes
VIERNES, 2 de diciembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Si alguna vez ha salido confundido de una cita con el médico, es probable que no sea su culpa: un estudio reciente encuentra que los pacientes pueden comprender mal del todo la jerga médica utilizada...
VIERNES, 2 de diciembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El alcohol aumenta el riesgo de cáncer, pero algunos estadounidenses piensan que hace lo contrario, muestra un estudio reciente.Los investigadores deseaban comprender la concienciación de las persona...
VIERNES, 2 de diciembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los pacientes con demencia que sufren convulsiones tienden a tener un deterioro más rápido y a morir más jóvenes, según un nuevo estudio que insta a los cuidadores a estar atentos a estos cambios cer...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Infants and young children could soon receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine as part of their three-dose series. Pfizer Inc. on Monday asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to have the vaccine that targets t...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- American kids are drinking to excess less and abusing marijuana more, a new study finds.Marijuana abuse among 6- to 18-year-olds has increased 245% since 2000, while child alcohol abuse has steadily declined ov...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Money may not buy happiness, but it might give low-income obese people an extra incentive to lose weight, a new study suggests.The study, of people from urban neighborhoods, found that cash rewards encouraged p...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with early-stage renal cell carcinoma, heat-based thermal ablation is associated with increased cancer-specific mortality with tumor size 3.1 to 4 cm, while cancer-specific mortality is similar for...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with a reduction in opioid dispensing and pain-related hospital events among adults receiving treatment for newly diagnosed cancers, according to a study publishe...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nvAMD), eyes treated with bevacizumab require more injections than those treated with aflibercept, and those receiving aflibercept are more likely...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors have increased odds of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which are reduced with performance of any moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), according to a stu...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Risk factors for sleep-related suffocation and unexplained infant death are explored in a study published online Dec. 5 in Pediatrics.Sharyn E. Parks, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control an...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among women who experience severe hypertension during delivery admission requiring treatment, the rate of timely treatment does not vary with race/ethnicity, according to a study published in the December issue...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Poor sleep quality is associated with an increased prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS)/benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), according to a study published online Oct. 24 in Frontiers in Aging Neuro...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Dynamically updating models can improve prediction of 28-day survival in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a study published online Nov. 10 in Nature Communications.Todd J. Levy, from the Feinstein I...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Growing numbers of Americans are suffering prolonged, life-threatening seizures known as status epilepticus, and Black people are nearly twice as likely to experience these seizures as white people.These are th...
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Growing numbers of Americans are suffering prolonged, life-threatening seizures known as status epilepticus, and Black people are nearly twice as likely to experience these seizures as white people.These are th...