WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A new ultrasound treatment for kidney stones might provide pain-free relief while the patient is awake, researchers say.Kidney stones are often excruciatingly painful. In most cases, patients are told to ju...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The new bivalent COVID-19 booster is now approved for children as young as 5 years old, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday.The bivalent booster shot includes one part that protects ag...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), thiazolidinedione (TZD) monotherapy is associated with reduced dementia risk compared with metformin (MET) monotherapy, while sulfonylurea (SU) monotherapy is associ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In almost 20 percent of patients, a smartwatch electrocardiogram (ECG) fails to produce an automatic diagnosis, according to a study published online Oct. 12 in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.Hugo-Pierr...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Sigmoidoscopy has a significant and sustained effect on colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality, according to a study published online Oct. 11 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Frederik E. Juul, M....
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People with normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) have an increased risk for developing Alzheimer disease, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, held from Se...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among younger adults, the hospital readmission rate after a heart attack is higher for women than for men, according to a study published online Oct. 4 in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.Mina Madan, M.D....
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have taught a brain cell culture living in a laboratory dish to play the vintage table-tennis video game Pong.It’s the first demonstration that a collection of lab-grown brain cells can be taught...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) positivity is lower in Asian, Hispanic, and Black individuals than White individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia, according to a study publish...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- More than one in five U.S. adults report household food insecurity, according to a report released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.Elaine Waxman, from the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., and coll...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- One-third of family caregivers for individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD) experience increasing depressive symptoms over five years, according to a study published online Sept. 4 in Clinical Gerontologist....
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), especially those with triple-negative subtype, visceral metastasis, and younger age at metastasis diagnosis, have an increased risk for central nervous system...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Distressing dreams predict cognitive decline and all-cause dementia in middle-aged and older adults without cognitive impairment or Parkinson disease, according to a study published online Sept. 21 in eClin...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Human brain tissue has been successfully transplanted into the brains of rats using a cutting-edge experimental procedure, say researchers. They envision the achievement as a promising new frontier in medic...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Too many times, the realization comes too late."When people have a major medical event like a heart attack or stroke, they retrospectively go back and say, 'Oh, I was really stressed, maybe...
MIÉRCOLES, 12 de octubre de 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Más veces de lo debido, la comprensión llega demasiado tarde."Cuando las personas sufren un acontecimiento médico grave, como un ataque cardíaco o un derrame cerebral, se trasladan ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When social interaction came to a halt during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, newborn babies missed out on vital communication milestones, researchers say.A new Irish study found about 25% of the...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- While working on a senior research project as part of her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University, Serah Sannoh decided to analyze peer-reviewed studies on diet and menstrual period pain, partly becaus...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Celebrity Khloe Kardashian announced Tuesday that she had survived a second bout of skin cancer, this time on her face. Kardashian said her “incredibly rare” tumor was removed by Beverly Hills surgeon Dr. G...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- That e-bike might make hilly rides a lot more fun, but it’s not improving your fitness the way a good old-fashioned bicycle would, a new study shows.People riding e-bikes are 44% less likely to reach weekly...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Children aged 8 and up should be screened for anxiety, the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended on Tuesday. Kids aged 12 and up should also be screened for depression, the ta...
A teen girl's diet could impact her odds for menstrual pain. New research suggests that foods high in omega-6 fatty acids promoted inflammation, a key culprit in menstrual pain, whereas a diet high in foods with omega-3 fatty acids reduced inflammatio...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The earlier a woman is diagnosed with diabetes, the sooner she may enter menopause, new research shows.Rates of diabetes have grown steadily, so researchers wanted to understand the long-term implications o...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- As some workplaces have added robots to the crew, workers in the United States and parts of Asia are feeling uneasy.Concerns about robots also happen even in industries where they’re not used yet, according...
TUESDAY, Oct. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adherence to annual screening among persons screened and entered into the American College of Radiology Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LCSR) is low, according to a study published online Oct. 11 in the Annal...
TUESDAY, Oct. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Early use of steroids seems not to reduce hospital length of stay (LOS) for non-multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) COVID-19 in children, according to a study published online Oct. 3 in JAMA...
TUESDAY, Oct. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Significant and sustained reductions in weight and comorbidities are seen more than a decade after metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) in adolescent patients, according to a study published in the October i...
TUESDAY, Oct. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A leading medical journal, the British Journal of Sports Medicine, has retracted nine more articles written by its former editor-in-chief and applied "expressions of concern" on 38 additional articles on whic...