JUEVES, 14 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un medicamento que se usa "fuera de etiqueta" para la esclerosis múltiple (EM) es más efectivo que la medicación estándar para prevenir las exacerbaciones de los síntomas, encontró un nuevo ensayo clínic...
JUEVES, 14 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El furoato de fluticasona, un medicamento para el asma, es otro fármaco que no funciona contra la COVID-19 de leve a moderada, encuentra un nuevo estudio."No hubo evidencias de mejoras en el tiempo hasta...
JUEVES, 14 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Dar a los pacientes acceso a domicilio a la metadona, un medicamento para tratar la adicción a los opioides, durante la pandemia de COVID no condujo a más muertes por sobredosis, muestra un estudio nacio...
JUEVES, 14 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los ftalatos, unos compuestos químicos que se usan para fortalecer los plásticos, se encuentran en millones de productos que las personas utilizan cada día, pero un nuevo análisis confirma que se vincula...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- With monkeypox cases continuing to climb in the United States, federal health officials said Friday they have ordered another 2.5 million doses of monkeypox vaccine and boosted national testing capacity to res...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Whether presenting a closing argument to a jury as a lawyer or singing on stage as a professional musician, Valerie Giglio of Stoneham, Massachusetts, knows how to work a crowd."You're perform...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A virus dangerous to infants is spreading across the United States, and parents and pediatricians should be on the lookout for symptoms, federal health officials say.Parechovirus has caused at least one infant...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For treatment of diabetic macular edema involving the center of the macular, two-year outcomes are similar for those treated with aflibercept monotherapy and with bevacizumab first then a switch to aflibercept...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Non-Hispanic White men are disproportionately affected by late-stage human papillomavirus (HPV)-related oropharyngeal cancer (OPC), but cancer-specific mortality (CSM) is elevated among Hispanic and non-Hispan...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Outpatient management seems safe for selected adults receiving antibiotic treatment for acute appendicitis, according to a study published online July 1 in JAMA Network Open.David A. Talan, M.D., from the Rona...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For individuals on hemodialysis, a factory-calibrated continuous glucose monitor (CGM) appears to be reasonably accurate, according to a study published in the July issue of Diabetes Care.Orianne Villard, Ph.D...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Fluvoxamine and colchicine are not recommended for nonsevere COVID-19, according to the 11th version of the World Health Organization living guideline on drugs for COVID-19 published online July 13 in The BMJ....
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The population-level health risks associated with low levels of alcohol consumption vary across regions and are greater for younger adults, according to a study published in the July 16 issue of The Lancet.Dan...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adherence to a healthy lifestyle is associated with close to a 50 percent lower risk for developing lethal prostate cancer among men at high risk for the disease, according to a study recently published in Eur...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A model based on clinical indicators and marital status is prognostic for early-stage gastric cancer (GC), according to a study published online July 5 in the Journal of Investigative Medicine.Lixiang Zhang, f...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- During left atrial appendage closure (LAAO) and transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (TEER) procedures, interventional echocardiographers are exposed to higher radiation doses than interventional car...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Select patients with traumatic brachial plexus injury (BPI) who undergo elective amputation after unsuccessful surgical reconstruction report reduced pain and high satisfaction, according to research published...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay Now) -- As a teenager, April Summerford suffered from extremely painful periods that made her suspect something was wrong with her body.Summerford didn’t know it, but she had endometriosis — a condition in which tissue...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Roughly 25 million children around the world missed critical vaccinations during 2021, as the pandemic continued to disrupt routine medical care, a new report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF show...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Starting Saturday, if you or someone you know is contemplating suicide or having a mental health crisis, you can dial just three numbers -- 988 -- to get help.Callers will be connected to a trained counselor a...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People shouldn’t take the drugs colchicine and fluvoxamine to treat mild to moderate COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning.The antidepressant drug fluvoxamine (Luvox) and the gout drug colch...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Memory loss is a common symptom after a stroke, but there's hope for some that those memories could return.A new study from Norway examined 86 patients with relatively mild strokes and found many had improved ...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An off-brand medication for diabetic macular edema might prove just as effective in early treatment as its more expensive alternative, potentially saving patients thousands of dollars, new research suggests.Th...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Despite now having more choices for lifesaving emergency allergy injectors like EpiPens, the cost is still proving prohibitively expensive for some, new research shows.Even though most people are saving money ...
FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A hurricane threatens anyone in its path, but it can be especially deadly for people who need kidney dialysis to survive, new research shows.An analysis of patient data spanning two decades linked hurricane ex...
Are you a victim of 'medical gaslighting?' When doctors fail to take their (often female) patients' complaints seriously, delayed or often wrong diagnoses can be the dangerous result, experts say. Read nowAmerica's 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline laun...
THURSDAY, July 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Unvaccinated Americans should soon have a fourth COVID-19 vaccine option.On Wednesday, the Novavax offering was the latest to receive emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A...
THURSDAY, July, 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- As monkeypox cases continue to climb worldwide, demands for vaccines to combat the virus are crashing the vaccine appointment system in New York City.The city of more than 8 million people has been running ...