TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Fresh produce prescriptions are associated with significant improvements in food security and health status for both adults and children, according to a study published online Aug. 29 in Circulation: Cardiova...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Recommendations have been updated for influenza vaccination among U.S. children for the 2023 to 2024 season, according to a policy statement and accompanying technical report from the American Academy of Pedi...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Computer-aided detection (CADe) during colonoscopy to identify advanced colorectal neoplasias and adenomas and the benefits and harms of CADe were explored in both a randomized trial and systematic review, bo...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An apple a day may be just what the doctor ordered.New research on “produce prescription” programs finds that when access to free fruits and vegetables is offered, recipients see measurable benefits in health...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Fantasy sports are full of contrasts. They use stats from real athletes to build make-believe teams. They fuel both casual fun with friends and a seriously lucrative industry.And while nobody...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and obesity, semaglutide is associated with a larger reduction in symptoms and physical limitations, according to a study published online Aug....
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer screening may not actually extend lives, with the possible exception of colorectal cancer screening with sigmoidoscopy, according to a review published online Aug. 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine.Michael ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Vasectomy rates increased in the United States from 2014 to 2021 among privately insured men, according to a study recently published online in Urology.Zhong Huang, from University of Chicago, and colleagues ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Ferric carboxymaltose does not improve a hierarchical composite outcome of death, heart failure hospitalizations, and exercise function in ambulatory patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), mavacamten reduces the need for septal reduction therapy (SRT) at week 56, according to a study published online Aug. 28 in JAMA Car...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are beneficial for smoking cessation in adult smokers with varied motivation for smoking cessation, according to a study published online Aug. 15 in eClinicalMedicine.Matt...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new COVID-19 surge is underway, with seasonal changes and new variants fueling an increase in hospitalizations and deaths.A new Omicron variant, named Eris, has become dominant in the United States amid sig...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) may be striking some at much younger ages than thought possible: New research has uncovered early signs of the condition in amate...
If you or someone you love is struggling with a substance abuse disorder, there is hope.While the latest data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 16.5% of Americans over the age of 12 met the criteria for having a substance use ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Men's testosterone levels remain pretty steady until age 70. After that, production of the male sex hormone starts to decline, new research indicates.This begs the question: Is testosterone loss among seniors...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For women, keeping a stable weight after the age of 60 may boost their odds of reaching the advanced ages of 90, 95 or even 100. Older women with a more stable weight were 1.2 to 2 times more likely to live t...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Does your dog struggle to breathe, especially at mealtime?New research suggests the two might often be connected.The University of Missouri researchers discovered that about 75% of dogs who had respiratory di...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It's known that older men with type 2 diabetes have higher odds for erectile dysfunction, or ED. Now, new research suggests problems in the bedroom for younger men may signal undiagnosed prediabetes or diabet...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- If you are in your 90s, is hip replacement surgery too dangerous for you?That depends, new research shows: While elderly patients have more complications and higher death rates after such a procedure, the sur...
TUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Using ECMO, a highly advanced form of breathing support, does not appear to complicate treatment for obese adults in intensive care. ECMO, which is short for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, may even help...
MONDAY, Aug. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Suboptimal adherence to aspirin after myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with an increased risk for recurrent MI, ischemic stroke, or death, according to a study presented at the European Society of Card...
MONDAY, Aug. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with ocular inflammatory disease (OID), short-term therapy with commonly used immunosuppressive drug classes and many drugs is not associated with an increased risk for cancer incidence, according...
MONDAY, Aug. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The Kettles Esophageal and Cardia Adenocarcinoma predictioN (K-ECAN) Tool can predict incident esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) using electronic health record data, accor...
MONDAY, Aug. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Self-reported experiences of discrimination increase youth’s risk for suicidal ideation a year later, according to a study published online July 28 in The Journal of Pediatrics.Arielle T. Pearlman, from the Un...
MONDAY, Aug. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Starting Wednesday, August 30, travelers to China will no longer need a negative COVID-19 test to enter that country, officials announced Monday.China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin announced the ...
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among American men. With 1 in 8 facing this diagnosis over his lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society, curiosity about natural solutions is understandable.But can herbs or supplem...
MONDAY, Aug. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While new research suggests cancer screenings are not extending lives for the most part, the study's authors stressed that there are still good reasons why people should continue with screenings.Their review o...
VIERNES, 25 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los popotes (pajitas) de papel, que se supone que son una alternativa ecológica el plástico, quizá no sean mejores para el ambiente, concluye un nuevo estudio, que también advierte que contienen unos "...