FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave its approval to a new drug for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.But approval of the drug, called Relyvrio, is bound...
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- The COVID-19 pandemic produced no shortage of somber statistics. But for people who care about women's health, one number about Hispanic women stood out.Their maternal mortality rate jumped s...
VIERNES, 30 de septiembre de 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- La pandemia del COVID-19 trajo consigo no pocas estadísticas lúgubres. Pero para las personas que se preocupan por la salud de las mujeres, una cifra relacionada con las mujeres hi...
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The suicide rate in the United States increased in 2021, following two years of decline, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The number of suicides increased...
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The devastation left by one of the strongest hurricanes to hit Florida in years is immense. But residents flooded out of their homes by Hurricane Ian must be cautious when they return, federal experts warn.F...
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- More than 1 million Americans attempted suicide in 2020, and a new study is hinting at a potential way to reduce that risk: prescription folic acid.The study, of more than 800,000 Americans in a health care d...
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans with heart disease also have limited access to food, and this dangerous combination is growing rapidly, a new study finds."Food insecurity is a common problem among people with cardiovascular d...
Suicides rose among Americans in 2021, reversing two years of decline. The U.S. suicide rate increased to 14 suicides for every 100,000 people, up from 13.5 per 100,000 in 2020, according to new CDC numbers. Read moreAfter Ian's destruction: How to sa...
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Wearing a fitness tracker may help you get more steps in -- even if you never give it a glance.A new study found that folks who wore a pedometer averaged 318 more steps a day than those who didn't, even witho...
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Places of worship may provide respite for Black men that not only enhances their lives, but may extend them, new research suggests."Black men have been oppressed, commodified, surveilled and criminalized like...
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Public health officials tried everything to convince Americans to get vaccinated against COVID, including giving away cash, but that wasn't enough to change hesitant minds, a new study shows.Researchers were ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From March to December 2020, more than 16,500 deaths occurred in cancer patients with complications of COVID-19, according to a research letter published online Sept. 29 in JAMA Oncology.Xuesong Han, Ph.D.,...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a small and mainly transient change in menstrual cycle length, according to a study published online Sept. 28 in BMJ Medicine.Alison Edelman, M.D., M.P.H., from the O...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The outcomes of surgeries do not differ for procedures performed by male or female gastrointestinal surgeons, according to a study published online Sept. 28 in The BMJ.Kae Okoshi, M.D., Ph.D., from Japan Ba...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Hepatitis A outbreaks frequently occur in drug users and in people reporting homelessness, according to research published in the Sept. 30 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbi...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Jynneos vaccine, originally designed to guard against smallpox infection, also seems to protect against monkeypox, new U.S. government data show.The potency of the vaccine in a real-world setting was im...
MIÉRCOLES, 28 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Mientras Florida y los estados cercanos se preparan para el impacto potencial del huracán Ian, los residentes en el camino de la tormenta también deben pensar sobre los peligros a los que podrían...
MIÉRCOLES, 28 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El uso de la melatonina, una ayuda para dormir de venta libre, está aumentando entre los jóvenes, y las llamadas a los centros de control de intoxicaciones y las visitas a la sala de emergencias ...
MIÉRCOLES, 28 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Millones de adultos mayores que tuvieron que pagar unos grandes aumentos en las primas de Medicare de este año tendrán un alivio en 2023, cuando experimenten una rara reducción en las primas mens...
MIÉRCOLES, 28 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Combinar el levantamiento de pesas con el ejercicio aeróbico puede reducir de forma significativa las probabilidades de muerte precoz, sobre todo por enfermedad cardiaca, muestra una investigació...
MIÉRCOLES, 28 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Es muy frustrante ponerse una vacuna contra la COVID-19 y al final contraer el virus de cualquier forma.Pero, en realidad, estas infecciones postvacunación le hacen mucho bien, al proveer una po...
MIÉRCOLES, 28 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La ex presentadora de noticias y del programa TODAY, Katie Couric, tiene cáncer de mama.Couric compartió esta información el miércoles en Instagram, al mismo tiempo que publicó un ensayo sobre la...
MIÉRCOLES, 28 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los casos de un virus que ataca a los niños y adolescentes, y que puede provocar parálisis en casos raros, han estado en aumento en Estados Unidos, y podrían continuar haciéndolo este otoño, advi...
MIÉRCOLES, 28 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay) -- Eisai, una compañía farmacéutica japonesa, anunció el miércoles que su medicamento experimental lecanemab ayudó a ralentizar el deterioro del pensamiento en personas en las primeras etapas de la enfer...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In late summer 2022, for children and adolescents, there was an increase in acute respiratory illness (ARI) resulting from enterovirus (EV)-D68 in the United States, according to research published in the ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Reduction in glycated hemoglobin level is greater with use of a bionic pancreas compared with standard care in children and adults with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in the Sept. 29 issue ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People reporting disabilities are more likely to have smoked during pregnancy and have an increased risk for preterm birth and low birthweight, according to a study published online Sept. 21 in Health Affai...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnancy anxiety in the third trimester may predict shorter gestational length, according to a study published online in Health Psychology.Christine Dunkel Schetter, Ph.D., from the University of Californi...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who receive periodontal care are significantly more likely to have follow-up visits after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to a study published in the August issue o...
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Employed kidney transplant recipients report that they function very well at work, according to a study published online Sept. 26 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.Tim J. Knobbe,...
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