Brain changes link menopause with higher Alzheimer's risk. Women who've gone through menopause have more white matter hyperintensities -- tiny dementia-linked lesions seen on scans -- in their brains than premenopausal women or men of the same age, re...
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Getting a COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy can help protect both mother and baby. But does it matter which vaccine or at what stage of pregnancy a woman receives her shots? New research suggests it does, an...
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- While kids in a classroom are likely to be familiar with all their classmates after a short time, the children they are assigned to sit near are likely to become their closer friends, a new study suggests. R...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The average cardiovascular health (CVH) score is 64.7 (out of a possible 100) for adults based on the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 metric, according to a study published online June 29 in...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In the June 28 early-release issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, interim recommendations are presented for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for young ch...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Individuals with headache before traumatic brain injury (TBI) are less likely to receive a diagnosis of posttraumatic headache (PTH), according to a study published online May 20 in Headache.Zachary Leibovi...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The United States is deploying an enhanced nationwide vaccination strategy to counter the continuing spread of monkeypox, federal public health officials announced at a White House briefing on Tuesday.The U...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Neck floats marketed for babies to use in water can lead to serious injury or death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week. The inflatable plastic rings are especially dangerous for infants...
MIÉRCOLES, 29 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las llamas son más que unas hermosas criaturas: también podrían ayudar a proteger a los humanos de la COVID-19 y una amplia variedad de virus similares.Sus muestras de sangre contienen unas minúsculas...
MARTES, 28 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los adolescentes que experimentan ciberacoso son más propensos a pensar en el suicidio, muestra un estudio reciente.Los investigadores encontraron un vínculo entre ser víctima de acoso en línea, a través...
MARTES, 28 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Desde enero de 2021, se requiere que los hospitales publiquen en línea los precios de 300 servicios médicos comunes, pero una nueva investigación encontró que apenas un 32 por ciento de los hospitales ha...
MARTES, 28 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La esperanza de vida de los estadounidenses varía mucho, no solo según la raza, sino también en qué lugar del país viven.Este es uno de los principales mensajes de un nuevo estudio que observó, estado po...
MARTES, 28 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Facebook e Instagram han comenzado a retirar las publicaciones que ofrecen pastillas para abortar a las mujeres que quizá no puedan obtenerlas después de que la Corte Suprema derogara Roe contra Wade.Est...
MARTES, 28 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las cadenas de farmacias CVS y Rite Aid están limitando la compra de las píldoras del día después a raíz de la decisión de la Corte Suprema de anular Roe contra Wade.Para evitar la escasez, CVS está rest...
MARTES, 28 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las mujeres de color podrían enfrentarse a retrasos para obtener una biopsia tras una mamografía de detección que sugiere que quizá puedan tener un cáncer, encuentra un nuevo estudio de gran tamaño.Los i...
MARTES, 28 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Fumar marihuana aumenta el riesgo de acabar en el hospital, informa un nuevo estudio.El uso recreativo de la marihuana se asoció con unas probabilidades un 22 por ciento más altas de tener que visitar un...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Neck floats marketed for babies to use in water can lead to serious injury or death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week.The inflatable plastic rings are especially dangerous for infants ...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There's a shortage of nursing home beds for the elderly in America due to a severe staffing crisis that has caused long-term care facilities to cut back on new admissions, new research shows.Three out of fi...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Shortly after news broke in May that Roe v. Wade was in danger of being overturned by the Supreme Court, internet searches for abortion pills surged, a new study shows.On May 2, a leaked draft ruling indica...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An enhanced approach for assessing cardiovascular health, Life's Essential 8, has been developed, according to an American Heart Association (AHA) Presidential Advisory published online June 29 in Circulati...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Maternal characteristics and infant outcomes vary by maternal place of birth, according to a report published in the June issue of Vital and Health Statistics, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended on Tuesday that updated COVID-19 booster shots be used this fall to protect against omicron and its highly contagious subvariants.Because the v...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In a consensus statement published online June 15 in JAMA Dermatology, data is provided for optimizing laboratory monitoring of acne patients treated with isotretinoin.Eric Xia, from Harvard Medical School ...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Opioid tapering is associated with increased rates of overdose, withdrawal, and mental health crisis extending up to two years after taper initiation, according to a study published online June 13 in JAMA N...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Following the leak of a draft ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), there was an increase in Google searches for abortion medications, according to a research letter published online Ju...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adjuvant hormone therapy (AHT)-related hot flashes predict worse breast cancer outcomes among patients in clinical routine practice, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the National Co...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Insomnia negatively impacts nearly 30 percent of adults, according to the results of a survey released online by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.The online survey of 2,010 U.S. adults was conducted f...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Male couples underestimate the effectiveness of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.Rob Stephe...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Only six of 20 actionable standards for hospital accreditation published by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (The Joint Commission) were completely supported by cited refere...
WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When former professional Major League Soccer (MLS) player Scott Vermillion died at age 44, he had stage 2 CTE, his family announced Tuesday. He is the first former MLS player diagnosed with chronic traumati...