FRIDAY, July 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Better lighting and other changes to street crossings could improve pedestrian safety for seniors -- the age group most likely to be killed by oncoming vehicles.Researchers pored over four years of Oregon cras...
First U.S. case of polio in a decade reported in New York: Rockland County officials say the young adult was not vaccinated and they have since opened polio vaccine clinics to encourage shots. Read moreAs searing heat stretches across much of the Unit...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will begin a comprehensive review of its food and tobacco programs amid a high-profile infant formula shortage and recent rulings on e-cigarettes.FDA Commissioner Robert...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A new analysis shows the average out-of-pocket expense for delivering a child in the United States is nearly $3,000, even for people with insurance.To determine just how much childbirth costs, Kaiser Family ...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will create a new division in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused solely on coordinating responses to pandemic threats and other...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced Thursday."This morning, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For early-career sports medicine candidates, about 40 percent of the procedures they perform may be outside of the sports medicine subspecialty, according to a study published online June 30 in the Journal o...
JUEVES, 21 de julio de 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Ese día que Reina Pomeroy sin querer se hizo experta en cómo los desastres naturales afectan a los niños, empezó de una manera placentera.En esa mañana soleada de diciembre, ella y su es...
MIÉRCOLES, 20 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Algunas bolsas de 1.2 onzas (34 gramos) de arándanos liofilizados orgánicos Natierra (Natierra Organic Freeze-Dried Blueberry) han sido retiradas en Estados Unidos debido a una posible contaminación c...
MIÉRCOLES, 20 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La terapia de reemplazo hormonal (TRH) para las sobrevivientes a un cáncer de mama no parece aumentar el riesgo de recurrencia del cáncer ni de muerte, informan unos investigadores daneses.Aunque la T...
MIÉRCOLES, 20 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Con frecuencia, el cáncer de páncreas tiene un pronóstico lúgubre, pero un nuevo estudio encuentra que realizar pruebas de detección a las personas con un riesgo alto puede encontrar la enfermedad tem...
MIÉRCOLES, 20 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Hace mucho que existe una creencia popular de que el clima empeora al dolor de la artritis.El tema se ha estudiado a lo largo de los años, con hallazgos contradictorios. Pero tres estudios recientes e...
MIÉRCOLES, 20 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un nuevo estudio de gran tamaño arroja buenas y malas noticias: confirma que la COVID puede aumentar los riesgos de problemas cardiacos y diabetes de nuevo inicio, pero estas amenazas en general mengu...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will create a new division in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused solely on coordinating responses to pandemic threats and other...
MIÉRCOLES, 20 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los hospitales de EE. UU. se han vuelto mucho más seguros para los pacientes en la última década, y ha habido una reducción significativa en los errores médicos y los eventos adversos en todo el país,...
MIÉRCOLES, 20 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Tener amigos en la niñez podría ayudarlo a mantenerse sobrio en la adultez temprana, sugiere una investigación reciente.Investigadores de la Universidad Estatal de Arizona (ASU) entrevistaron a más de...
MIÉRCOLES, 20 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) de EE. UU. finalizaron su programa de monitorización de los casos de COVID-19 en los cruceros, dejando que la industria gestione sus r...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the drug Keytruda to standard chemotherapy can extend the lives of some women with an aggressive form of breast cancer, a new study finds.The study involved women with advanced triple-negative breast ...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Disclosing maternal BRCA carrier status does not adversely affect quality of life or influence the lifestyle behavior of adolescent and young adult (AYA) children, according to a study published online July ...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Women with laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis may have an increased risk for stroke, according to a study published online July 21 in Stroke.Leslie V. Farland, Sc.D., from the University of Arizona in ...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Short sleep duration is causally associated with an increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a study published online June 30 in Frontiers in Public Health.Rui-Chen Gao, from the School of ...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An artificial intelligence (AI) system could aid clinicians in assessing psoriasis severity, according to a short report published online June 28 in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Ven...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Simultaneous administration of COVID-19 mRNA booster and influenza vaccines may increase the likelihood of systemic reactions, according to a study published online July 15 in JAMA Network Open.Anne M. Hause...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If a positive COVID test has forced you to postpone elective surgery, here's some good news.Once recovered from the virus, fully vaccinated patients have no greater odds for post-surgery complications than p...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence rate and relative risk for COVID-19 infection from the original severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant were significantly greater in U.S. adolescents and youth tha...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to traffic-related air pollution may be associated with an increased risk for childhood leukemia, according to a study published in the August issue of Environment International.Christian Kreis, Ph....
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cases of acute hepatitis without known cause have been described in children in two case series published online July 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.L. Helena Gutierrez Sanchez, M.D., from the Uni...
THURSDAY, July 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The prevalence of hollow viscus injury (HVI) among patients with an abdominal seat belt sign (SBS) and negative findings on computed tomography (CT) is extremely low, according to a study published online Ju...