WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Years of litigation over the opioid epidemic could end soon, as the national pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens announced Wednesday that each company has agreed to a nearly $5 billion settlement. While neithe...
MARTES, 1 de noviembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A la mayoría de las mujeres embarazadas les dicen que es seguro tomar una taza de café al día, porque no provoca pérdidas del embarazo ni partos prematuros, pero una nueva investigación sugiere un vín...
MARTES, 1 de noviembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La detección temprana de los problemas de memoria es importante.Puede descartar una variedad de problemas de la salud, entre ellos las deficiencias vitamínicas, una afección de la tiroides, la apnea d...
MARTES, 1 de noviembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Podría parecer que las armas de fuego serían el mayor riesgo de seguridad para los cazadores, pero hay otro peligro real.La posibilidad de sufrir un ataque cardiaco o accidente cerebrovascular (ACV) d...
MARTES, 1 de noviembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un nuevo informe del gobierno le muestra a todo el que no piense que el alcoholismo no es una enfermedad letal que el abuso del alcohol provocó casi un 13 por ciento de las muertes de adultos estadoun...
MARTES, 1 de noviembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La discriminación no solo provoca dolor emocional en el momento, sino que también podría afectar a la recuperación física de una víctima tras un ataque cardiaco, sugiere una investigación reciente.Al ...
MARTES, 1 de noviembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Más de 10,000 fibras nerviosas (muchas más de lo previsto) conforman al clítoris humano, según unos investigadores de Oregón que pudieron contarlos por primera vez mientras realizaban una cirugía de a...
Un nuevo fármaco de anticuerpos para la malaria previene la infección en los adultos durante 6 meses
MARTES, 1 de noviembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un nuevo tratamiento de anticuerpos para la malaria podría mantener a las personas libres de la enfermedad, que a veces resulta letal, durante hasta seis meses en las regiones donde las tasas de infec...
MARTES, 1 de noviembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los médicos quizá pronto tengan acceso a una nueva arma en la continua batalla contra las bacterias resistentes a los antibióticos.Una combinación experimental de antibióticos parece ofrecer una nueva...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Years of litigation over the opioid epidemic could end soon, as the national pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens announced Wednesday that each company has agreed to a nearly $5 billion settlement. While neithe...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults looking to slow down memory loss might find some help in a classic brain-teaser: the crossword puzzle.That's the suggestion of a small study that followed older adults with mild cognitive impair...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For newly diagnosed patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), obesity is associated with higher disease severity and poorer outcomes, according to a study published online Nov. 1 in the Journal of Neurology, Ne...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For women deferring risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO), surveillance for ovarian cancer (OC) is feasible, yields a high complete cytoreduction rate, and is cost-saving, according to a study...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Antihypertensive treatment is associated with a reduced risk for dementia, according to an individual patient data meta-analysis from randomized clinical trials published online Oct. 25 in the European Heart...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People with autism have atypical physical and sensory experiences during pregnancy and have lower perceptions of prenatal health care versus people without autism, according to a study published online Oct. ...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Early screen time does not appear to have as much impact as other factors in pediatric concussion recovery, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in Pediatrics.Molly Cairncross, Ph.D., from Simon Fra...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in early pregnancy to midpregnancy is significantly associated with lower birth weight, according to a study published online Oct. 25 i...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Both 10 percent povidone-iodine and aqueous 4 percent chlorhexidine gluconate are equally effective for preventing postsurgical infections among patients requiring surgery for open fractures, according to a ...
The annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology was held from Oct. 21 to 26 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and attracted approximately 5,000 participants from around the world, including gastroenterology and digestive specialists and oth...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity is never healthy, and that may be especially true for people who also develop multiple sclerosis.Obese people with MS are likely to see the disability linked to the disease rapidly worsen, said Germa...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Screening tests routinely catch cases of breast and colon cancer early, but a screening test for lung cancer is sorely underused in high-risk people and that needs to change, more than 50 cancer organization...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Chest pain and shortness of breath may offer distinct warnings of future heart problems over 30 years' time, according to a new study.Chest pain accounts for more than 6.5 million visits to ...
AHA News: Vinculan el dolor en el pecho y la falta de aire con el riesgo de problemas cardíacos a...
MIÉRCOLES, 2 de noviembre de 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- El dolor en el pecho y la falta de aire podrían ofrecer advertencias distintas de futuros problemas cardíacos en un período de 30 años, según un nuevo estudio.El dolor en el pecho ...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Most people consider drowsy driving dangerous, but an estimated 37 million Americans still get behind the wheel at least once a year when they're so tired they can barely keep their eyes open.About six in 10...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Poor sleep may be linked to glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, new research suggests. The study drew on a database of more than 400,000 people to explore links between sleep and vision loss.Glaucoma is ...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A hormone therapy commonly used to prevent preterm births probably isn't effective, a new study reports.Doctors have been prescribing vaginal progesterone treatments to help at-risk pregnant women delay deli...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- New research reveals that the brain is much more flexible than once thought and can change rapidly during treatment for major depression.People receiving inpatient treatment for major depression had increase...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For women, the key to getting ahead at work could be getting more shut-eye. Quality sleep boosted women’s moods, which then made them more intent on work achievements, a new study found. Researchers from Was...