VIERNES, 21 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una cirugía puede ser una idea aterradora a cualquier edad. Ahora, unos investigadores afirman que han detectado dos factores claves que aumentan las probabilidades de que los adultos mayores tengan m...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- School-age kids who spend hours a day playing video games may outperform their peers on certain tests of mental agility, a new study suggests.Researchers found that compared with children who never played vide...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) outbreaks frequently occur in schools and child care facilities and most outbreaks spread via person-to-person transmission, according to a study published online Oct. 24 in Pediatr...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (aCSCC), first-line treatment with nivolumab shows robust antitumor activity and good tolerability, according to a study published online Oct. 24 in Cancer.Rodrig...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Antipsychotic effectiveness declines in women after the age of 45 years, according to a study published online Oct. 5 in Schizophrenia Bulletin.Iris E. Sommer, M.D., Ph.D., from the University Medical Center G...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Inner Ear Structural Assignment Method (IESAM) has high diagnostic value for identifying definite Meniere disease (DMD), according to a study published online Sept. 26 in Frontiers in Neurology.Heng Xiao, ...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. purchases of hypoallergenic or lactose-reduced infant formula exceed estimates of medical need, according to a study published online Sept. 21 in Clinical & Experimental Allergy.Alexander J. Strzalkowski,...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For the millions of people who live with vitiligo, a disease that robs the skin of its natural color, a newly approved cream called ruxolitinib (Opzelura) is quickly becoming a game changer.The U.S. Food and D...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for cardiovascular diseases and infections may be higher in some subgroups of Crohn disease (CD) patients, according to a study published online Oct. 14 in the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis.Benoit Fo...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The severity of children’s atopic dermatitis (AD) in first grade may predict its persistence in sixth grade, according to a study published online Sept. 19 in the Journal of Dermatology.Akio Tanaka, M.D., Ph.D...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Multimodal speech-gesture (MSG) training is promising for patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD), according to a study published in the August issue of Schizophrenia Research.Lydia Riedl, Ph.D., f...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Current and former smokers face worse outcomes while undergoing dialysis, according to a study published online Oct. 12 in Nephrology.Sibel G. Bek, M.D., from Kocaeli University Hospital in Turkey, and colleag...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 mortality increased with age, reaching 1,645 per 100,000 population for U.S. adults aged 85 years and older in 2020, according to an October data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Contr...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Folks who regularly use weed could be in for a rocky road if they ever require major surgery, a new study reports.Frequent marijuana users tend to experience more pain as they recover from surgery, and they re...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- The good news is that fear can persuade us to avoid dangerous situations or help us flee from an angry bear.The bad news is that fear can lead to chronic stress, with serious health consequenc...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Training to become a doctor can be grueling, and now a new study finds a direct correlation between longer work hours and depression symptoms in first-year residents.Medical residency -- the training that new ...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) – About 88 nursing homes in the United States are on a watch list for worrisome care that puts residents in danger, but now they will face tougher penalties for any future violation.Those tougher penalties could ...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Some Americans could pay up to $130 to get a COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer starting in 2023, but most will still get it for free.A Pfizer executive noted that people who would get its vaccine for free would ...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Child tax credits had a huge impact in U.S. households that struggle to afford food.And after those credits ended, many low-income American families with children had trouble getting enough to eat.Food insuffi...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Getting into prescription or over-the-counter medicines at home is a major source of accidental poisoning for young children.Yet, nearly half of parents say they have leftover prescriptions at home, a new poll...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A finger that “locks” can be a telltale sign of another condition: Diabetes.Researchers suspected that this trigger finger, often in the ring finger or thumb, might indicate diabetes after frequently finding t...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Some children struggle to read or spell because of a condition called dyslexia that is known to run in families. Now, researchers report they have pinpointed a large number of genes responsible for the disorde...
MONDAY, Oct. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Experts studying kids' sleep and eating habits have learned more about a potential reason for childhood obesity.Kids who are deprived of sleep tend to eat more calories the next day, researchers found. And som...
As young doctors' work hours rise, so do their odds for depression. Researchers found that among more than 17,000 first-year residents across the United States, average scores on a depression scale rose hand-in-hand with the number of hours worked eac...
SUNDAY, Oct. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- These days, you can test yourself for COVID-19, HIV, potential problems in your DNA or even a urinary tract infection while never leaving your home.Researchers set out to find what older folks thought of the t...
SATURDAY, Oct. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For many people, it is possible to slow the loss of joint cartilage as they age and avoid surgery to boot.Certain steps can help with that, said one orthopedic surgeon from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
FRIDAY, Oct. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- During the pandemic, surgical volumes decreased, but the clinical presentation of diverticulitis became more severe, according to a study presented at the Scientific Forum of the American College of Surgeons C...
FRIDAY, Oct. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A subset of livers that have been transplanted and have a cumulative age of at least 100 years have been identified, and patients receiving these livers have good outcomes, according to a study presented at th...