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 aren't immediate.Under the law, Medicare will now be allowed to negotiate the cost...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patient-initiated care supported with smartphone self-monitoring is noninferior to usual care for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients with stable low disease activity, according to a study published online J...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccine initiation is lower among adults with vision or hearing disabilities compared with adults without disabilities, according to a study published online Aug. 11 in JAMA Ophthalmology.Kea Turner, ...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Limiting access to non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) may exacerbate underuse of anticoagulants and increase the risk for adverse health outcomes, such as stroke, among patients with newly ...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Reading, doing yoga and spending time with family and friends might help lower your risk of dementia, a new study suggests."Previous studies have shown that leisure activities were associated with various heal...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- At 21, Chris O'Connell learned his pediatric cardiologist had retired. He was assigned a new doctor for the annual checkups he'd had all his life."I know you've been told to not exercise hard ...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) indices have high diagnostic sensitivity, but low specificity, for active terminal ileal (TI) Crohn disease (CD), according to a study recently published in the Journal ...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Frequent aspirin use is associated with lower ovarian cancer risk regardless of the presence of most other ovarian cancer risk factors, according to a meta-analysis published online July 22 in the Journal of...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Lower dietary calcium and potassium intake are risk factors for symptomatic kidney stone recurrence, according to a study published in the August issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Api Chewcharat, M.D.,...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Inflatable bounce houses are big, colorful, cheap to rent and practically scream "childhood fun." So, what could possibly go wrong?It turns out plenty. For one thing, the air-filled party staples are vulnerabl...
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 Administratio...
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’re not infected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.In issuing its new safe...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- More than a quarter of kids hospitalized with COVID-19 or a complication called multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) continue to have health problems more than two months later, a new study finds.A follow...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Some adults who sign up for Medicaid also bring their unenrolled but eligible kids into the system, a new study reports.For every nine adults who gained access to Medicaid in Oregon due to a special enrollment...
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When dogs' hearing fades, their mental skills follow, new research reveals.For the study, the researchers examined the link between hearing loss in aging dogs and dementia. The findings shed light on ways sens...
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Most eutylone-involved deaths in 2020 occurred in two states, and deaths commonly co-involved illicitly manufactured fentanyls (IMFs) and cocaine or methamphetamine, according to research published in the...
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it has loosened its COVID-19 social distancing recommendations as the American public learns to live with the virus in its midst. The new gui...
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with severe COVID-19 requiring high flow nasal cannula (HFNC), triple therapy of dexamethasone, remdesivir, and baricitinib is associated with significant survival benefit compared with dual t...
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Initiating colonoscopy every 10 years (Colo10) at age 45 years or an annual fecal immunochemical test (FIT) at 40 years is cost-effective for all body mass index (BMI) and sex groups, according to a study ...
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Compared with regular meat eaters, vegetarians, but not occasional meat eaters or pescatarians, have an increased risk for hip fracture, according to a study of women in the United Kingdom published online...
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Flavored nontobacco oral nicotine products are the second most widely used nicotine product type among adolescents, according to a study published online Aug. 8 in Pediatrics. Alyssa F. Harlow, Ph.D., from...
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Details of two outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness associated with splash pad use in a park in Kansas in June 2021 are presented in the Aug. 5 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention M...
MIÉRCOLES, 10 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los hombres son más propensos que las mujeres a desarrollar cáncer, y un nuevo estudio sugiere que esto se debe en gran medida a diferencias biológicas entre los sexos."Tras controlar factores como f...
MIÉRCOLES, 10 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Menos de un tercio de las personas con hepatitis C reciben tratamiento para esta infección, que es potencialmente letal, pero curable, en un plazo de un año tras su diagnóstico, advierte un nuevo inf...
MIÉRCOLES, 10 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Uno de los síntomas más alarmantes de la COVID-19 ha sido la pérdida repentina del sentido del gusto y el olfato.Algo preocupante es que algunas personas no recuperan estos sentidos tras superar la i...
MIÉRCOLES, 10 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay) -- Mientras los estadounidenses en riesgo hacen largas colas en todo el país, para intentar obtener la vacuna Jynneos contra la viruela del simio, el martes las autoridades de EE. UU. anunciaron que modifica...
MIÉRCOLES, 10 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cambiar la sal por el cloruro de potasio, un sustituto de la sal, reduce la presión arterial, y por tanto el riesgo de ataque cardiaco, accidente cerebrovascular (ACV) y enfermedad cardiovascular, en...
MIÉRCOLES, 10 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los cigarrillos siguen siendo responsables de demasiadas muertes por cáncer cada año en Estados Unidos, encuentra un estudio reciente.En 2019, casi 123,000 muertes por cáncer en EE. UU. se debieron a...