FRIDAY, June 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- You can add more risk of broken bones to the long list of health harms that smoking poses to men. Along with cancer and respiratory diseases, men who smoke have a significantly increased risk of osteoporosis,...
FRIDAY, June 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People with anorexia nervosa show significant shrinkage in three important areas of the brain, new research reveals.The researchers said their study findings highlight the importance of early treatment, to pre...
FRIDAY, June 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Heart failure patients who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 have a three times higher risk of death if they get the disease than those who are fully vaccinated and have received one booster, new resea...
FRIDAY, June 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A form of diabetes caused by malnutrition is significantly different from type 1 or type 2 diabetes and should be considered a distinct form of the disease, a new study says.The findings may prove crucial in d...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Half of jurisdictions may not be prepared for the July launch of the new national 988 emergency mental health telephone service, according to the results of a survey conducted by RAND Health Care.Jonathan H. ...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Between 2019 and 2020, there was an increase in the perception of electronic cigarettes as more harmful than cigarettes, according to a study published online June 8 in the American Journal of Preventive Medi...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Six in 10 U.S. adults feel comfortable taking charge and giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to the results of a survey released by the American Heart Association.The online survey was condu...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In an about-face from an original report on what might have caused the COVID-19 pandemic, experts enlisted by the World Health Organization said Thursday that they could not discount the "China lab leak" theo...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Moderna announced Wednesday that its updated COVID-19 booster shot does a better job at thwarting the omicron variant than the original version does."We are thrilled to share the preliminary data analysis on ...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are spreading rapidly in the United States, but it is not yet clear if they will trigger a new wave of infections or a surge in hospitalizations and deaths, experts say.T...
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Bajar mucho peso mediante una cirugía para perder peso puede reducir de forma significativa el riesgo de desarrollar, o de morir de, un cáncer, según tres estudios recientes.Las personas obesas que se ...
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Mientras la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) de EE. UU. sopesa prohibir la venta de cigarrillos mentolados, un estudio reciente refuerza el vínculo entre el tabaco con sabor a menta y e...
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Incluso tras la vacunación, vivir con el VIH aumenta las probabilidades de infección con la COVID, muestra una investigación reciente.El estudio encontró que las personas vacunadas que viven con VIH ti...
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El equivalente de salud mental del 911 está a punto de lanzarse por todo Estados Unidos, pero un nuevo estudio encuentra que muchas comunidades quizá no estén preparadas.A partir del 16 de julio, el nu...
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La marcada división política en Estados Unidos también podría estar creando una creciente brecha en las tasas de mortalidad entre esos bandos opuestos, sugiere una investigación reciente.En el estudio,...
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una investigación reciente sugiere que si tiene EPOC (enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica) quizá deba prestar mucha atención a dormir bien.El sueño de mala calidad aumentó de forma significativa el...
La COVID podría aumentar las probabilidades de un trastorno psiquiátrico posterior, según un estudio
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas que han tenido la COVID quizá sean más vulnerables a los trastornos de la salud mental en los meses tras la infección, advierte un estudio reciente.Los investigadores analizaron los datos ...
JUEVES, 9 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Si duerme con Fido o Félix, está en buena compañía, muestra una encuesta reciente.Casi la mitad de los participantes en una encuesta de la Academia Americana de Medicina del Sueño (American Academy of Sle...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In an about-face from an original report on what might have caused the COVID-19 pandemic, experts enlisted by the World Health Organization said Thursday that they could not discount the "China lab leak" theo...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Like fixing a flat on the roadside, a new injectable hydrogel is showing promise as a remedy for worn-down spinal discs -- pumping them back up and relieving chronic back pain.The gel, with the brand name Hyd...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Diagnostic selective salpingography followed by fallopian tube recanalization may be a treatment option for some women with infertility, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Society of ...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Early research shows that overall survival is longer with ramucirumab and pembrolizumab (RP) compared with an investigator's choice standard-of-care (SOC) in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), accor...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Finnish women taking hormonal birth control have fewer suicide attempts than women not taking hormonal contraceptives (HC), according to a study presented at the annual European Congress of Psychiatry, held v...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Asthma is not associated with higher rates of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection or household transmission, but food allergy is associated with a lower risk, according to a...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among adults with obesity, bariatric surgery is associated with a significantly lower incidence of obesity-associated cancer and cancer-related mortality versus no surgery, according to a study published onli...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Launch prices for new drugs increased exponentially by 20 percent per year from 2008 to 2021, according to a research letter published in the June 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.Be...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Autologous oocyte thaw may result in a final live birth rate (FLBR) of 39 percent per patient, according to a study published online May 18 in Fertility and Sterility.Sarah Druckenmiller Cascante, M.D., from ...
THURSDAY, June 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The addition of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and pelvic lymph node radiotherapy (PLNRT) to prostate bed radiotherapy (PBRT) prolongs freedom from progression of prostate cancer following prostatectomy, ...