FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Gun owners and non-gun owners have different probabilities of endorsement of Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview-Revised (SITBI-R) items, according to a study published online May 11 in JAMA Network...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Two 50-µg doses of the mRNA-1273 vaccine are safe and effective for children aged 6 to 11 years, according to a study published online May 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine.C. Buddy Creech, M.D., M.P.H....
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The growth in the number of clinicians with waivers to prescribe buprenorphine slowed during the pandemic, and support and mentorship are needed to facilitate obtaining a waiver, according to two studies publis...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients hospitalized with COVID-19, persistent viral shedding occurs frequently and is associated with in-hospital delirium and increased six-month mortality, according to a study published online May 11 i...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term exposure to wildfires may be associated with a slightly increased risk for lung cancer and brain tumors, according to a study published in the May issue of The Lancet Planetary Health.Jill Korsiak, fr...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Menopause is associated with proatherogenic circulating metabolome alterations, according to a study published online May 12 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.Jari E. Karppinen, from the Universi...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among older adults with physical frailty and sarcopenia and a short physical performance battery (SPPB) score of 3 to 7, the incidence of mobility disability is reduced with participation in a multicomponent in...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Even before the pandemic, the demand for donor kidneys far exceeded supply. That shortfall only worsened when hospitals started refusing to use kidneys from COVID-positive donors.However, new research now sugge...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Esophageal cancer tends to be a "silent killer," and it's on the rise among middle-aged Americans, new evidence suggests.The rate of this cancer nearly doubled among people aged 45 to 64, and the prevalence of ...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer may feel like a death sentence because this fast-moving disease is often discovered at a later stage, when it's harder to treat. Now, a new study offers hope for earlier diagnos...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A potentially lifesaving drug that reduces overdose risk is prescribed to less than half of Americans treated for opioid addiction, a new study finds. This underuse of buprenorphine is "equivalent to giving th...
Big rise in esophageal cancers among middle-aged Americans. Between 2012 and 2019, the rate of this cancer nearly doubled among people aged 45 to 64, and the prevalence of Barrett's esophagus -- a precancerous condition -- rose by about 50%, anew stud...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental gene therapy for spinal cord pain shows promise in mice, researchers say. About half of spinal cord injury patients have neuropathy, which is chronic or debilitating pain, tingling, numbness or...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Here's one way in which the pandemic did not exacerbate health care disparities: A new study shows that telemedicine has closed the gap in access to primary care between Black and non-Black Americans. The use ...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The more antibiotics that seniors take, the greater their risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a new study suggests. The findings could help explain some of the increase in Crohn's disease and ulcerative c...
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Nurses can be trained to detect postpartum depression in new mothers and could be crucial in spotting the condition early, researchers report. Postpartum depression affects about 15% of new moms and can cause p...
THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From 1999 to 2020, there was an increase in the annual number of mesothelioma deaths among women, although the age-adjusted death rate decreased, according to research published in the May 13 issue of the U.S...
THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The overall firearm homicide rate in the United States increased from 2019 to 2020, according to research published in the May 13 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mo...
THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Survivors of COVID-19 hospitalization have improvement in physical and mental health over two years, but the burden of symptomatic sequelae remains high, according to a study published online May 11 in The La...
THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Diet is consistently associated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) risk in White European women, but not in other ethnic populations, according to a meta-analysis published online May 11 in PLOS Global ...
THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Rapid post-dialysis recovery time (DRT) occurs in most end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients receiving five dialysis treatments each week in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) setting, according to a study pu...
THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Most patients have positive views about the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve care but have concerns about unintended consequences, according to a research letter published online May 4 in JA...
THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It is a number many Americans have grimly expected but may still find hard to comprehend: More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19."Today, we mark a tragic milestone: one million American lives l...
MIÉRCOLES, 11 de mayo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Casi uno de cada cuatro médicos de hospital son maltratados en el trabajo por los pacientes, los visitantes y otros médicos, y las médicas tienen casi el doble de probabilidades que los médicos de sexo...
MIÉRCOLES, 11 de mayo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- ¿La ciencia vende? A veces.Es probable que usar la ciencia para vender galletas de chips de chocolate y otros deliciosos productos resulte contraproducente, muestra un nuevo estudio, pero publicitar la...
MIÉRCOLES, 11 de mayo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Desde el principio de la pandemia, la pérdida del olfato y del gusto se han vinculado con la infección con la COVID-19. Pero un nuevo estudio muestra que estas características son mucho menos comunes c...
MIÉRCOLES, 11 de mayo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La orden de obligatoriedad sobre el uso de máscaras en aviones y aeropuertos de la Unión Europea se eliminará a partir del 16 de mayo, anunciaron el miércoles las autoridades. La nueva directriz "toma ...
MIÉRCOLES, 11 de mayo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas que de verdad dependen del café para que les dé energía quizá también experimenten un aumento en sus niveles de colesterol, sobre todo si beben una variedad sin filtrar, sugiere un estudio...