TUESDAY, June 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A decline in cases of a rare heart disease in children during the COVID pandemic may provide clues about its cause and how to prevent it, researchers say.Kawasaki disease (KD) affects fewer than 6,000 kids in...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pediatric emergency medical encounters related to physical abuse were reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online June 16 in Pediatrics.Barbara H. Chaiyachati, M.D., Ph.D., from...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare could have saved up to $3.6 billion in 2020 by purchasing drugs at Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) online pharmacy prices, according to a research letter published online June 21 in the Ann...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There has been substantial progress in the proportion of pregnant persons screened for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, but the testing rates are still low, according to an article published online June 9 in...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with the rs2814778-CC genotype have higher risks for azathioprine discontinuation attributed to hematopoietic toxicity, even after adjustment for race, according to a study published online June 21 in...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- After a final sign-off on Saturday from the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than 5 years have finally become a reality."This expands eligibil...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must take another look at whether the key ingredient in the weed killer Roundup poses a cancer risk, although the product will re...
You've made it through many of the hard choices in your breast cancer treatment only to confront another major one: whether -- and when -- to have your breast (or breasts) reconstructed after your mastectomy. Some women want a fully reconstructed brea...
It used to be thought that the more the surgeon cut from a woman's breast, the more likely she was to survive breast cancer. By the time surgery was over, a woman with a small tumor in one breast would have lost her breast, the chest muscles underneat...
Anne Hofstadler is a breast cancer survivor. Her sister and mother have also had breast cancer. So Anne worries that her daughter may eventually be diagnosed with the disease -- especially since her daughter's paternal grandmother also suffered from i...
What's the disease that women fear the most? The answer is most likely to be breast cancer. And if you ask them the disease they're most likely to get, their answer would be breast cancer as well.But they would be wrong.Among the most lethal diseases ...
VIERNES, 17 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los estadounidenses son noctámbulos a los 20 años, duermen la cantidad más baja a los 40, y por fin duermen más después de la jubilación.Estas son algunas de las conclusiones de un estudio que observó l...
VIERNES, 17 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Unas clases de baile latino podrían ser una salida social y un ejercicio magníficos, y una nueva investigación sugiere que aprenderse lo complicados pasos de la salsa, la samba o el merengue podría mejo...
VIERNES, 17 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un medicamento experimental para el Alzheimer llamado crenezumab no previno ni ralentizó el deterioro mental en los pacientes con una mutación genética que aumenta en gran medida el riesgo de desarrolla...
VIERNES, 17 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La COVID-19 es mucho más peligrosa para los niños que la gripe estacional, confirma un nuevo estudio."Encontramos que el impacto en la hospitalización pediátrica no es equivalente entre los dos virus, y...
VIERNES, 17 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El acceso rápido a los expedientes médicos de un paciente podría ayudar a los dentistas a ofrecer una mejor atención, pero esto raras veces sucede, encuentra un estudio reciente."Es posible que los prof...
VIERNES, 17 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Tener "el corazón roto" es un término apto para el intenso dolor provocado por la muerte de un cónyuge.Un nuevo estudio señala que este tipo de pérdida puede conducir a importantes problemas de la salud...
VIERNES, 17 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) de EE. UU. aprobó el viernes el uso de emergencia de las vacunas contra la COVID-19 de Pfizer y Moderna para los niños más pequeños del país.Las aprob...
LUNES, 20 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- ¿En qué piensa su perro cuando usted le dice que busque su juguete favorito?Unos investigadores húngaros afirman que Fido utiliza una imagen mental basada en características sensoriales. Los perros recuer...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Area-level income and education are associated with the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at an advanced stage, according to a study published online June 20 in Cancer.Anjali Gupta, from Duke Uni...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Skyrizi (risankizumab-rzaa), an interleukin-23 inhibitor, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to treat moderately to severely active Crohn disease (CD) in adults, according to AbbVie.Approv...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of Kawasaki disease (KD) decreased during periods of COVID-19-related masking and school closure, according to a study published online June 17 in JAMA Network Open.Jennifer A. Burney, Ph.D., fro...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Arsenic seems to have a dual effect on carcinogenesis, according to a study recently published in Frontiers in Public Health.Ming-Hsien Lin, from China Medical University in Taiwan, and colleagues examined exp...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathologic change (LATE-NC) is seen in almost 40 percent of brains with Alzheimer disease neuropathologic change (ADNC), according to a study published...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Intraoperative urinary catheters do not reduce the risk for postoperative urinary retention (PUR) after laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, according to a study published online June 15 in JAMA Surgery.Aldo F...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Azithromycin helps improve asthma control and reduce exacerbations in children with poorly controlled asthma, according to a study published in the June issue of CHEST.Jagat Jeevan Ghimire, M.D., from All Indi...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A graph convolutional network (GCN) approach allows classification of schizophrenia at the individual level, according to a study published online May 15 in Schizophrenia Bulletin.Du Lei, from Sichuan Universi...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) index has been developed and validated for predicting postoperative recurrence (POR) in Crohn disease (CD), according to a study published in the May issue of Clinical Gastro...
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Americans may have a collective drinking problem, made worse by the obesity epidemic, new research suggests. The new study found that deaths from alcoholic cirrhosis have more than tripled in 20 years.In 1999,...