THURSDAY, Sept. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The fight against malaria could hinge on genetically engineered mosquitoes that have something called "gene drive."Researchers from the Transmission: Zero team at Imperial College London report that they hav...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A daily multivitamin may provide cognitive benefits for older adults, according to a study published online Sept. 14 in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.Laura D. Baker, Ph.D., from the Wake Forest University School ...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Medical debt is common and is a risk factor for worsening of food and housing insecurity, according to a study published online Sept. 16 in JAMA Network Open.David U. Himmelstein, M.D., from the City Unive...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Unscreened adults aged 40 years and older at average risk for colorectal cancer (CRC) prefer fecal immunochemical test (FIT)-fecal DNA every three years, according to a study published online July 20 in Cl...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Most cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors are similar for women and men, according to a study published in the Sept. 10 issue of The Lancet.Marjan Walli-Attaei, Ph.D., from McMaster University in Hami...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In a report issued Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged numerous shortcomings in its response to the infant formula shortage earlier this year."For things that are critical to the pu...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 vaccine requirement for foreign nationals in Canada is likely to be eliminated by the end of September, the Associated Press reported, citing an official close to the matter who was not author...
MARTES, 20 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas con enfermedad cardiaca deberían de recibir una prueba de detección de la apnea del sueño, sugieren los autores de un nuevo estudio. Encontraron que el uso constante de una máquina de P...
MARTES, 20 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un creciente número de enfermedades de transmisión sexual (ETS) han llevado a los expertos en salud pública de EE. UU. a hacer un llamamiento a que haya más prevención y tratamiento.Esto incluye una...
MARTES, 20 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Mientras las muertes por sobredosis de opioides siguen disparándose, un programa canadiense apunta a una forma de salvar vidas: proveer unos opioides "más seguros" a las personas que están en riesgo...
MARTES, 20 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los lentes de contacto pueden ser indispensables para las personas que no ven bien, pero si no se limpian y guardan de forma adecuada, se corre el riesgo de unas infecciones oculares graves, señalan...
MARTES, 20 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Más de cuatro de cada cinco muertes relacionadas con el embarazo en Estados Unidos se hubieran podido prevenir, según un nuevo informe del gobierno federal.Los investigadores examinaron los datos de...
MARTES, 20 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- En lo que equivale a un reconocimiento público de que los trastornos de ansiedad se han multiplicado durante la pandemia, un influyente panel de expertos recomienda por primera vez que todos los adu...
MARTES, 20 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una nueva investigación sugiere que el trastorno de déficit de atención e hiperactividad (TDAH) quizá no solo provoque complicaciones psiquiátricas: los adultos que sufren de TDAH también son más pr...
MARTES, 20 de septiembre de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las mujeres pueden sufrir durante años el debilitante dolor y las complicaciones médicas de la endometriosis sin un diagnóstico.Ahora, los investigadores creen que quizá puedan diagnosticar la afecc...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For many years, doctors have advised taking low-dose aspirin to help prevent first-time heart attacks and stroke. But increasingly, they're doing an about-face.The latest warnings come from University of M...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For people with HIV (PWH), hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection is not associated with an increased risk for type 1 myocardial infarction (T1MI), but the risk with increasing age is magnified for those with...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Considerable progress has been made to improve, extend, and save lives of patients with cancer in the last year, according to the 12th annual Cancer Progress Report released by the American Association for...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For men, smoking is positively related and alcohol consumption is negatively related to the risk for Meniere disease (MD), according to a study published online Aug. 26 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine....
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) surgery can impact sexual function, mainly involving ejaculatory function, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis recently published in European Urology Focus...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Using the same titanium-coated polypropylene mesh, the surgical success rate with self-cut mesh is noninferior to that with a commercial mesh kit for the transvaginal treatment of severe pelvic organ prola...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- During the period of omicron emergence, the performance of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests with nasal self-sampling declined, according to a study published online Sept. 14 in The BMJ.Ewoud Schuit, Ph.D., fro...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Fathers' passive smoke exposure through childhood may be associated with nonallergic asthma risk in offspring, according to a research letter published online Sept. 14 in the European Respiratory Journal.J...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you’re constantly burning the midnight oil, you may be setting yourself up for type 2 diabetes and heart disease.When compared with folks who go to bed early and wake with the sun, night owls are more l...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- After professional boxers and mixed martial artists stop actively fighting, cognitive function and brain thickness measures may stabilize and blood neurofilament light (NfL) levels may decline, according t...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A deep learning (DL)-based tool may help detect pancreatic cancer on computed tomography (CT) scans, according to a study published online Sept. 13 in Radiology.Po-Ting Chen, M.D., from the National Taiwan...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you haven't had a COVID vaccine, you can’t travel to Canada, but that could change soon.The vaccine requirement for foreign nationals in that country is likely to be eliminated by the end of September, ...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Too few children with sickle cell anemia are getting the recommended screening tests for stroke, a common complication of this disease, a new government report finds.What’s more, many aren’t receiving hydr...