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MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Monkeypox could soon get a new name.The World Health Organization announced Friday that it plans to rename the condition to eliminate any derogatory or racist connotations, a decision in alignment with current...
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. workers without paid leave lost out on an estimated $28 billion in wages during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.The analysis showed that the greatest increases in u...
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- While most people know that breathing in wildfire smoke isn’t good for respiratory health, they may not know that unclean air is also problematic for the heart. Individuals with underlying cardiovascular disea...
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The dangers of school traffic is a major worry for many parents, a new poll finds. In fact, a third of more than 900 parents surveyed last spring said speeding and distracted parent drivers are their main conc...
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Taking part in certain sports in high school may lead to misuse of prescription stimulants in the years after graduation, a new study finds.It reported that high school seniors who play contact sports are 50% ...
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The most popular COVID-19 vaccines are safe to use in pregnancy, a large, new Canadian study has concluded.About 4% of pregnant women given an mRNA vaccine had a significant health event within a week of their...
SUNDAY, Aug. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Heart failure can develop at any age, but it can be prevented or treated, one cardiologist says.Heart failure happens when the heart becomes too stiff or weak, no longer able to keep up with the body's demands...
SATURDAY, Aug. 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Sweating can affect your skin, so learning how to handle it should be an important part of your skin care regime, a Baylor College of Medicine aesthetician says."Sweating is an important bodily function that...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Sexual dysfunction is common in women with lung cancer, according to a study presented at the annual International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer, held from Aug. 6 t...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- State and local health officials have detected the poliovirus in New York City's wastewater, a finding that indicates the virus has spread widely since first being discovered in the wastewater of a neighbori...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The popular diabetes drug Januvia may contain traces of a probable carcinogen, but patients should keep using the medication because it could be dangerous to stop taking it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administra...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People who test at home after being exposed to COVID-19 should take the test three, not two, times to make sure they are not infected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. In issuing its ne...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to bring out-of-pocket drug costs down for many U.S. seniors, but most of its benefits are not immediate. Under the law, Medicare will now be allowed to negotiate th...
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Todo el que haya tenido un grande y doloroso cálculo renal quiere evitar que el episodio se repita. Ahora, un nuevo ensayo confirma una estrategia preventiva: eliminar los pequeños cálculos "silenciosos...
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) de EE. UU. anunciaron el jueves que habían relajado sus recomendaciones sobre el distanciamiento social para la COVID-19, a medida que e...
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los niños estadounidenses que son pobres o miembros de minorías étnicas se pierden de unos deportes juveniles que hace mucho que se afirma que construyen unos cuerpos y caracteres fuertes, informa un es...
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Unas cantidades sin precedentes de personas están adoptando dietas de origen vegetal para aprovechar los muchos beneficios que ofrecen para la salud, pero esto podría suceder a costa de sus huesos, sugi...
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- En Estados Unidos hay una epidemia de opioides, pero hay una buena noticia en la lucha contra esta epidemia: los pacientes con un seguro privado están recibiendo menos recetas de estos adictivos fármaco...
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La disfunción sexual es un efecto secundario común entre las mujeres con un cáncer de pulmón, encuentra un estudio reciente."El estudio SHAWL [por las siglas en inglés de Evaluación de la salud sexual e...
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los maestros tienen un rol esencial en la detección y el reporte tempranos del abuso infantil, según un nuevo estudio que encontró que los cierres de las escuelas durante el pico de la pandemia podría h...
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La cirugía espinal (de la columna) es dolorosa, pero ahora se necesitan menos analgésicos opioides para ayudar a los niños y adolescentes a gestionarlo, encuentra un estudio reciente.Un equipo de invest...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- State and local health officials have detected the poliovirus in New York City's wastewater, a finding that indicates the virus has spread widely since first being discovered in the wastewater of a neighboring...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Preparing your taxes is a purely mental activity, but one that leaves many exhausted by the end of the effort.The same goes for reading a dense report, picking apart reams of spreadsheet data, or writing a fac...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- At least two months after hospitalization with acute COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), more than 25 percent experience persistent symptoms or activity impairment, according to ...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Brief exposure to direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) has a large and positive association with medication-related demand intentions, according to a study published online Aug. 12 in JAMA Health Forum. M...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Early risk factors may predict health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for people with newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published online Aug. 10 in Neurology. Julia O'Mahony, Ph...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have a good safety profile in pregnancy, according to a study published online Aug. 11 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Manish Sadarangani, D.Phil., from the BC Children's Hospital...