WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If your child is a picky eater and you feel you need to give them dietary supplements, you're not alone.In a new poll of more than 1,200 U.S. parents with at least one child aged 1 to 10, more than half sa...
WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A mesh plug normally used to treat one type of brain aneurysm is also effective when dealing with another type, a new study says.Aneurysms are bulges in blood vessels that can cause a life-threatening rupt...
WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When people have legal access to marijuana, they're less likely to take certain prescription drugs, new research suggests.U.S. states where recreational marijuana is legal have seen large drops in the use...
WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other severe mental illnesses are at increased risk of death from heart problems, a large research review finds."Our systematic review and meta-analysis of o...
WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise may help safeguard your brain as you age, and a new study suggests how this might happen.Previous research has shown that physical activity helps protect brain cells. This paper indicates it may d...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A new forecasting center for infectious diseases was officially launched by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. The goal of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics is to...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Moderna Inc. announced Tuesday that an updated COVID-19 booster shot that combines Moderna's original vaccine with protection against the beta variant appears more effective than current booster shots agains...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Just hours after a Florida judge struck down a federal mask mandate on planes and other forms of public transportation, major airlines announced Monday that they will no longer require face coverings on dome...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- At least four people in Michigan infected with a version of the coronavirus found mostly in mink are the first known cases of possible animal-to-human transmission of the virus in the United States.The cases...
The annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology was held from April 2 to 7 in Seattle and attracted more than 38,000 participants from around the world, including clinicians, academicians, allied health professionals, and others interested in...
Vinculan los problemas de salud mental con un riesgo más alto de infecciones de COVID postvacunación
LUNES, 18 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas con trastornos de abuso de sustancias, depresión y otras afecciones de la salud mental podrían tener un riesgo más alto de COVID-19, incluso cuando están vacunadas del todo, sugiere una inves...
LUNES, 18 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La COVID-19 se conoce sobre todo como una enfermedad respiratoria, pero un nuevo estudio sugiere que el coronavirus puede infectar al tracto intestinal durante semanas y meses después de que el virus se h...
LUNES, 18 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La segregación escolar podría parecer una reliquia del pasado, pero en realidad ha estado aumentando en Estados Unidos durante años. Ahora, un nuevo estudio muestra que conlleva consecuencias de salud par...
LUNES, 18 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El futuro del diagnóstico y de dirigir los tratamientos para los trastornos graves de la salud mental quizá incluya a IRM del cerebro.Unos investigadores de Reino Unido encontraron que los escáneres del c...
LUNES, 18 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) investiga un aumento inexplicable en las infecciones hepáticas graves en niños de todo el mundo, que incluyen a Estados Unidos y Reino Unido.Los casos graves de h...
LUNES, 18 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los estadounidenses de a partir de 60 años se deben poner una segunda dosis de refuerzo de una vacuna contra la COVID-19, recomendó el domingo el nuevo coordinador de la respuesta a la COVID-19 de la Casa...
Los trabajadores de la atención de la salud tuvieron el mayor riesgo de COVID en el lugar de trabajo
LUNES, 18 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los trabajadores de la atención de la salud de EE. UU. tuvieron el mayor riesgo de infectarse con la COVID-19 en el trabajo durante el primer año de la pandemia, según un nuevo estudio, que contradice a i...
MARTES, 19 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando usted come mejillones u otros mariscos, quizá también esté consumiendo una porción de microplásticos, sugiere un estudio reciente.Los investigadores descubrieron microplásticos por la contaminació...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A new forecasting center for infectious diseases was officially launched by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.The goal of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics is to ...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Placing hospitalized COVID-19 patients on their stomach is helpful if they're on a mechanical ventilator, but a new study suggests it's not a good idea for patients who are not intubated."Awake" COVID patien...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Moderna Inc. announced Tuesday that an updated COVID booster shot that combines Moderna's original vaccine with protection against the Beta variant appears more effective than current booster shots against O...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Fitness trackers can tell you how well you're sleeping, how fast you're walking and, of course, how many steps you've taken.But during the pandemic, researchers have also investigated the ability of smart wa...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Nicholas Green should've turned 35 this year.Instead, a random act of violence claimed his life while he was on vacation with his family in Italy more than 27 years ago. The story captivated...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends against use of combined estrogen and progestin and estrogen alone for primary prevention of chronic conditions in postmenopausal persons. These findings for...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Compared with cisgender youth, transgender and gender-questioning youth have increased risk factors and worse outcomes in five health domains, according to a study published in the April 19 issue of the Jour...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The variable race is associated with urinary tract infection (UTI) in children, but it can be replaced with history of UTI and duration of fever in a previously developed prediction tool, according to a revi...
MONDAY, April 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For hospitalized patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) positivity, conjunctival swab (CS) positivity is 12.7 percent, and 45.1 percent have at least one conjunctival manif...
TUESDAY, April 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Molecular traits may mediate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and endometrial cancer risk, according to a study published online April 19 in BMC Medicine.Emma Hazelwood, from the University of ...