THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The inability to successfully complete the 10-second, one-legged stance in middle age is independently associated with premature all-cause mortality, according to a study published online June 21 in the Brit...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There was more than a threefold increase in U.S. deaths from alcoholic cirrhosis between 1999 and 2019, according to a study published online May 27 in The American Journal of Medicine.Orly Termeie, from Flo...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Rates of infertility among U.S. women have remained largely unchanged since 1995, according to a study published online June 13 in Fertility and Sterility.Morgan Snow, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medici...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A score has been developed to stratify the risk for subclinical rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD), according to a study published online May 18 in Arthritis & Rheumatology.Ju...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Wearable sensor technology could facilitate detection of presymptomatic COVID-19, according to a study published online June 21 in BMJ Open.Martin Risch, M.D., from the Dr. Risch Medical Laboratory in Vaduz,...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Even babies aren't immune from the effects of long COVID, Danish researchers report.Their study found that about one in three kids aged 14 and younger who tested positive for the virus were suffering from mo...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For healthy adults, the bivalent prefusion F respiratory syncytial virus (RSVpreF) vaccine is effective against symptomatic RSV infection and viral shedding, according to a study published in the June 23 iss...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An eight-week true acupuncture (TA) treatment is effective for chronic tension-type headache (CTTH), according to a study published online June 22 in Neurology.Hui Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., from Chengdu University...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), ranibizumab with a port delivery system (PDS) with one refill costs more than intravitreal ranibizumab or aflibercept injections if abou...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisory panel on Wednesday voted to recommend that Americans 65 and older get the new, more potent flu shots because the regular shot doesn't offer ...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Hate crime laws that protect gay, lesbian and transgender people may have an unexpected benefit: fewer teen suicide attempts, among kids of all sexual orientations.That's the conclusion of a new study that l...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Tension headaches can make you feel like a vice is squeezing your entire head, and if you're among the millions prone to these crushing headaches, a new study brings some welcome news.Acupuncture may help pr...
FRIDAY, May 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Health authorities in Britain, who routinely test sewage samples for the virus that causes polio, declared a "national incident" after evidence of local spread was found in London sewers.No cases have been identi...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Moderna Inc. announced Wednesday that the revamped COVID booster shot it has developed to fight Omicron and its subvariants should be ready for public use by August.The company has been making shots of the va...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Media reports about an outbreak of monkeypox may sound scary, but there's no need for most people to take special steps to avoid getting the viral illness, an infectious disease expert says.Normal precaution...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you struggle to fall asleep at night, you are not alone. About 28% of Americans say insomnia is taking a toll on their daily lives, and about 64% say they take sleep aids to help them fall asleep or stay ...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When breast cancer patients sleep, tumor cells may "awaken" and spread through the bloodstream, a surprising study out of Switzerland reveals.Circulating cancer cells that later form new growths (metastases)...
Acupuncture may ease tension headaches. People who got 20 true acupuncture sessions over two months had fewer headache days than those who received a superficial acupuncture technique, new research shows. Read moreYouth suicide attempts decline in sta...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- To ensure that all kinds of patients get drugs and devices that are safe and effective for them, they need to be represented in clinical trials, but a new study shows that representation of women in key dise...
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pets have helped people weather both the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics, a survey of long-term HIV/AIDS survivors shows."The underlying question in our minds has always been: What role do pets play for peop...
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- One of the worst meningitis outbreaks in U.S. history has prompted public health officials to urge gay and bisexual men who live in Florida or plan to visit the state to get vaccinated right away.Twenty-fou...
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to pull Juul Lab e-cigarettes off the American market. The decision, which follows a two-year review of reams of data presented by the vaping company, could c...
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with schizophrenia face persistent inequality in educational attainment, according to a review published online in the July issue of The Lancet Psychiatry.Nicolás A. Crossley, Ph.D., from the Unive...
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The global prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is 32 percent among patients with psoriasis, according to a review published online June 6 in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venere...
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cardiometabolic disease (CMD) multimorbidity accelerates cognitive decline and conversion to dementia, according to a study published online June 16 in Alzheimer's & Dementia.Abigail Dove, from the Karolins...
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged women with low serum estrogen and progesterone levels are more likely to snore and report symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, according to a study published online June 22 in PLOS ONE.Erla S. S...
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Women are not imagining it as they view near-empty store shelves: Global supply chain issues have prompted a shortage of tampons.Reports on social media of shortages were confirmed this week by the on-deman...
MARTES, 21 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una nuevas directrices sobre el sueño infantil de la Academia Americana de Pediatría (American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP) enfatizan que los padres deben asegurarse de que sus bebés duerman solos de espa...
MARTES, 21 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Millones de personas toman vitaminas y complementos cada día con la esperanza de evitar la enfermedad cardiaca y el cáncer, pero un nuevo informe encuentra que en gran medida se carece de evidencias para...
MARTES, 21 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Mientras la ola de calor de fin de semana que puso en alerta a más de 15 millones de estadounidenses en las Llanuras norteñas y centrales se mueve poco a poco hacia el este, los médicos de emergencias de...