Your hospital room affects outcomes after surgery. A new study finds key factors about hospital rooms that are tied to higher or lower survival rates in the days or weeks after surgery. Read moreMarijuana, meth, cocaine use may trigger dangerous a-fib...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Gestational exposure to phthalates is associated with reduced lung function during childhood, according to a study published in the Nov. 1 issue of Environmental Pollution.Magda Bosch de Basea, Ph.D., from ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly half of U.S. adults aged 50 to 80 years (48 percent) have ever bought an at-home medical test, with nearly one-third (32 percent) having bought an at-home COVID-19 test, according to a new report fro...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Wednesday voted to recommend that a controversial drug meant to prevent premature births be pulled from the market.FDA officials have said they want...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. National Institutes of Health is investigating COVID-19 experiments at Boston University that have sparked a media firestorm, with some news outlets alleging that scientists created a "killer" stra...
MARTES, 18 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los ojos podrían ser el espejo de una buena salud.Barbara Krupar, una paciente de 65 años de Ohio que está jubilada, lo aprendió de primera mano.Krupar hizo una cita con su oftalmóloga tras experimenta...
MARTES, 18 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A la costa atlántica podrían llegar unos huracanes que se forman más rápido y que son más húmedos, advierte una investigación reciente.El cambio climático es la causa general, señalan los expertos.Mien...
MARTES, 18 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Algunos hígados humanos son más resistentes que otros, y duran más de 100 años acumulados entre el anfitrión original del órgano y el receptor de un trasplante, descubre un nuevo estudio.Comprender qué...
MARTES, 18 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La cobertura dental de Medicare podría pronto comenzar a ampliarse para los adultos mayores, bajo una nueva propuesta de los Centros de Servicios de Medicare y Medicaid (CMS) de EE. UU.Aun así, las nor...
MARTES, 18 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un número sustancial de niños y adolescentes son perseguidos, atraídos y abusados sexualmente en línea, y unos adultos desconocidos no siempre son los perpetradores.En muchos casos, los amigos y las pa...
MARTES, 18 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Más de un millón de estadounidenses con diabetes tienen que racionar la insulina, un medicamento que salva vidas, porque no pueden costearla, muestra un estudio reciente.Muchas personas retrasaron surt...
MARTES, 18 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando una persona está recibiendo quimioterapia, quizá en lo último que piense sea en el ejercicio. Ahora, una nueva investigación sugiere que quizá deba ser lo primero en lo que piense.Hacer ejercici...
MARTES, 18 de octubre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Es una ecuación problemática: muchos estadounidenses con las tasas más altas de hospitalización por la influenza tienen la adopción más baja de la vacuna anual contra la gripe.Por esto, los Centros par...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) have increased comorbidity compared with the general population and with patients with psoriasis vulgaris (PV), according to a study published online Oct. ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. National Institutes of Health is investigating COVID experiments at Boston University that have sparked a media firestorm, with some news outlets alleging that scientists created a "killer" strain ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Wednesday voted to recommend that a controversial drug meant to prevent premature births be pulled from the market.FDA officials have said they want...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Women who conceive by medically assisted reproduction (MAR) have larger racial/ethnic disparities in adverse birth outcomes, such as neonatal and fetal death, according to a study published online Oct. 19 i...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A person with advanced heart failure may often need a heart transplant or a mechanical heart pump to survive.But white patients are twice as likely as Black patients to get this critically important care, a...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians with disabilities had a significantly higher likelihood of experiencing every type of mistreatment from both patients and coworkers, according to a study published online in the October issue of ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In 2020, there was an increase in mortality disparities by educational attainment in the United States, according to a study published online Oct. 13 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.Emily C. ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Disparities exist in the receipt of recommended postpartum care by insurance type, rural or urban residence, and racial and ethnic identities, according to a study published online Oct. 14 in JAMA Health Fo...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Sleeping five hours or less per night is associated with a higher risk for developing chronic diseases, according to a study published online Oct. 18 in PLOS Medicine.Séverine Sabia, from Université Paris C...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A new open-source platform speeds matching of patients to precision medicine (PM) oncology trials, according to a study published online Oct. 6 in npj Precision Oncology.Harry Klein, Ph.D., from Dana-Farber...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For women with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in pregnancy, vaccination after recovery is associated with increased odds of detectable immunoglobulin (Ig)G in infants, accordin...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and valvular heart disease (VHD), apixaban is associated with a reduced risk for ischemic stroke or systemic embolism and a reduced risk for bleeding compared with...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Anesthesia care is more common among Medicare beneficiaries undergoing cataract surgery versus other low-risk procedures, and fewer cataract surgery patients experience systemic complications within seven d...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors seem not to be associated with a reduced risk for Alzheimer disease and related dementia, according to a study published online Oct. 4 in Brain Communications.Rishi J. ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons have long advised patients to stop smoking cigarettes for several weeks before their operations to lower the risk of complications. But what about weed?New research has found reason for worry: Mari...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An older class of type 2 diabetes drugs known as thiazolidinediones, or TZDs, may protect you from dementia down the road, according to new research.Thiazolidinediones, also known as glitazones, cut dementi...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- On her first visit to the hospital to check on her newborn patient, the pediatrician detected a heart murmur. A few days later, at Cix Greene's first office visit, the doctor didn't hear it...