LUNES, 6 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un medicamento recién aprobado para la diabetes tipo 2 también podría ser un punto de inflexión para el tratamiento de la obesidad.La tirzepatida, que se administra como una inyección semanal, funciona en ...
LUNES, 6 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Dos medicamentos que son "bombas inteligentes" ofrecen nuevas esperanzas a las mujeres con unos cánceres de mama agresivos, muestran dos ensayos clínicos.Ambos fármacos son anticuerpos conjugados, que cons...
LUNES, 6 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La diabetes aumenta las probabilidades de que una infección con la COVID-19 sea grave, y las personas con diabetes quizá tengan hasta cuatro veces más probabilidades de desarrollar síntomas de larga duraci...
LUNES, 6 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una nueva investigación apunta a una convincente interacción entre la enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal (EII) y la depresión.La EII incluye la enfermedad de Crohn y la colitis ulcerosa. Además del dolor f...
LUNES, 6 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un estudio de tamaño reducido produjo unos resultados sorprendentes sobre el poder de un nuevo tratamiento de inmunoterapia contra el cáncer de recto: el medicamento provocó la remisión en todos los pacien...
MARTES, 7 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Más buenas noticias para los amantes del café que ya reciben sus otros beneficios para la salud: su bebida favorita quizá también ayude a proteger a los riñones."Ya sabemos que beber café con regularidad ...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For individuals with obesity, tirzepatide is associated with lasting weight loss, according to a study published online June 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the annual meeting of the ...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with resectable desmoplastic melanoma (DM), pembrolizumab treatment prior to resection results in a high pathological complete response (pCR) rate, according to a study presented at the annual mee...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, molnupiravir offers additional important clinical benefits, according to a study published online June 7 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Noting that molnupiravir...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patient and hospital staff's vaccine status may influence patients' willingness to undergo a surgery during a pandemic, according to a study published in the June 9 issue of Vaccine.Anna Clebone Ruskin, M.D., ...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A blood test could save some colon cancer patients from getting unnecessary chemotherapy following surgery, while making sure that those who would benefit from the treatment get it, researchers report.The circ...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Move over baby carrots and petite peas. Even tinier vegetables are catching on as go-to healthy foods.Microscale vegetables, a growing food category that includes sprouted seeds, are miniature...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Spending more time being physically active, particularly at moderate intensity, and less time being sedentary may lower the risk for having a stroke, according to a study published online June 3 in JAMA Networ...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Implementation of Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid Expansion (ME) was associated with an increase in the proportion of patients using Medicaid in cancer clinical trials, according to a study presented at the...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Black children consistently are less likely to receive diagnostic imaging than White children presenting to a pediatric emergency department, according to a study published online June 2 in JAMA Network Open.M...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Parental cancer is associated with a greater likelihood of family-level food insecurity, financial worry about housing costs and other monthly bills, and transportation barriers to medical care for U.S. childr...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Suspected suicide attempts by poisoning reported to U.S. poison centers increased 26.7 percent between 2015 and 2020, according to a study recently published in Clinical Toxicology.Jennifer A. Ross, M.D., from...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for migraine is increased in lightly pigmented adults, according to a study published online May 10 in Brain Sciences.Magdalena Kobus, from the University of Lodz in Poland, and colleagues examined th...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Tens of thousands of breast cancer patients could safely go without radiation therapy after their tumor has been removed, a new study argues.Gene testing helped doctors identify a group of women who skipped ra...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Use of medical marijuana has surged across the United States, but a new analysis finds that evidence supporting its use in treating chronic pain remains surprisingly thin.There have been few well-performed cli...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory panel will weigh whether to recommend the emergency use of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.The decision will be based on clinical trial data the compa...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. veterans are at higher risk for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, than most Americans, and new research finds they are also more likely to have advanced-stage disease when it's detected.At the ...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Reacting to the nation's opioid epidemic, doctors in the United States are co-prescribing fewer opioid painkillers and benzodiazepines such as Ativan and Xanax, federal health officials report.When these drugs...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There's more good news for coffee lovers who already reap its other health benefits -- your favorite beverage may also help protect your kidneys."We already know that drinking coffee on a regular basis has be...
Veterans at higher risk for deadly melanomas. They're also more likely to present with advanced disease, so researchers encourage physicians to screen veterans as high-risk patients. Read moreCan medical marijuana and CBD ease chronic pain? Despite ...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Open-source automated insulin delivery (AID) systems are an effective and safe way for people with type 1 diabetes to control their blood sugar levels, researchers say.The AID systems combine an insulin pump, ...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- American farmers are at increased risk for tick bites, but new research shows they are doing little to defend themselves against the insects and the illnesses they cause.Tick-borne diseases include Lyme diseas...
TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- High-tech devices and communication helped ease the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on children with type 1 diabetes, researchers said in a new study.Pandemic shutdowns caused significant disruptions in health ca...