WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Considerable racial and ethnic disparities are seen in drug overdose rates, according to a Vital Signs report published in the July 19 early-release issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking, but not alcohol consumption, is causally associated with psoriasis, according to a study published online June 28 in the British Journal of Dermatology.Jiahe Wei, from Hangzhou Medical College in C...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended its program to monitor COVID-19 cases on cruise ships, leaving the industry to manage infection risks aboard its vessels.Cruise ships experience...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday gave its blessing for the emergency use of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth coronavirus shot to be approved in the United States.CDC Di...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Certain 1.2-ounce Natierra Organic Freeze-Dried Blueberry pouches have been recalled in the United States because of possible lead contamination.The recall of two lots by manufacturer BrandStorm Inc. is due...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The most common test of lung function, spirometry, probably is not detecting signs of emphysema in some people with the lung ailment, a new study says.In particular, Black men are at greater risk of sufferi...
MARTES, 19 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las muertes por causas relacionadas con el corazón se han reducido en los últimos 20 años, aunque persisten las diferencias según la raza y la etnia, además del lugar de residencia de las personas y su a...
MARTES, 19 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando ocurren huracanes, inundaciones e incendios, cualquiera puede tener dificultades para responder y afrontarlos, pero una nueva investigación sugiere que las mujeres, las personas con hijos menores ...
MARTES, 19 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La sociedad estadounidense quizá parezca estar más fracturada que nunca, pero la cooperación entre completos desconocidos ha estado en aumento durante décadas, afirman unos investigadores de China. Su co...
MARTES, 19 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A veces, tan solo observar a una persona puede ofrecer pistas sobre sus probabilidades de desarrollar COVID prolongada tras un encuentro con el virus.Por ejemplo, las personas obesas tienen cinco veces m...
MARTES, 19 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando una bola de pintura (paintball) sale disparada de una pistola de CO2, puede desplazarse hasta 300 pies (91 metros) por segundo.Si se apunta en dirección de la cara, esta bola de pintura (que se di...
MARTES, 19 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A la luz del reciente fallo de la Corte Suprema que anuló Roe contra Wade, muchos obstetras y ginecólogos en todo el país aprecian un cambio que les permite seguir realizando los exámenes de acreditación...
MARTES, 19 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El uso médico y recreativo de la marihuana se ha disparado en Estados Unidos, a medida que más estados legalizan la droga, pero las jóvenes deportistas quizá deban pensárselo dos veces antes de usarla.Un...
MARTES, 19 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La viscosidad de la sangre de una persona podría ser cuestión de vida o muerte si contrae la COVID-19, sugiere un estudio reciente.Los pacientes hospitalizados con COVID-19 que tienen una mayor viscosida...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Certain 1.2-ounce Natierra Organic Freeze-Dried Blueberry pouches have been recalled in the United States because of possible lead contamination.The recall of two lots by manufacturer BrandStorm Inc. is due...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for breast cancer survivors doesn't appear to increase the risk of cancer recurrence or death, Danish researchers report.Although HRT has previously been linked to a raised...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Opzelura (ruxolitinib) as the first topical treatment for vitiligo. The 1.5 percent cream is approved for continuous topical use twice daily to affected ar...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pancreatic cancer often has a dismal prognosis, but a new study finds that screening high-risk people can catch the disease early and extend lives.Researchers at eight U.S. medical centers found that annual...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Forget what you thought you knew about catching COVID-19 more than once. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, keeps evolving – and so has information about your risk of being reinfec...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The rates of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) increased from 2016 to 2020, according to the July 19 issue of the National Vital Statistics Reports, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Contro...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The lifetime risk of stroke (LTRS) varies with polygenic risk and cardiovascular health, with the highest score seen for those with a high genetic risk and inadequate Life's Simple 7, according to a study p...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For older adults with hip fracture, higher levels of psychological resilience are associated with greater walking speed and distance 16 weeks later, according to a study published online July 20 in the Jour...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with schizophrenia have higher personal space (PS) size and lower PS permeability compared with controls, according to a study published online June 5 in Schizophrenia Bulletin.Sarah L. Zapetis, fr...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risks for diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are increased in the acute and postacute COVID-19 phases, according to a study published online July 19 in PLOS Medicine.Emma Rezel-Pott...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Increased estimated blood viscosity (eBV) is associated with increased mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a study published in the July 26 issue of the Journal of the American Coll...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Surveillance of high-risk individuals may downstage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), according to a study published online June 15 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.Mohamad Dbouk, M.D., from the S...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Overall, 13.1 percent of hospitalized patients with multiple myeloma (MM) have atrial fibrillation, which is associated with worse outcomes, according to a study recently published in Cureus.Inimfon Jackson...
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Hormone therapy remains the most effective treatment for vasomotor symptoms (VMS) and genitourinary syndrome of menopause, according to a position statement issued by the North American Menopause Society (N...
