MARTES, 5 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- William Shakespeare escribió que una rosa por cualquier otro nombre olería igual de dulce.Parece que tenía razón.Los olores que las personas aman u odian no son determinados por las experiencias culturale...
MARTES, 5 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las heces y la orina de sus mascotas podrían ofrecerle pistas sobre cuántas toxinas cancerígenas se han asentado en su hogar."Nuestros hallazgos sugieren que las mascotas entran en contacto con unas amina...
MIÉRCOLES, 6 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las vacunas protegieron bien contra la COVID-19 a la mayoría de los pacientes con cáncer, pero los que sufren de un cáncer de la sangre siguen en riesgo de infecciones postvacunación, sugiere una inves...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Do you wash your dog's food bowl every day?Do you wash your hands before and after you fill it up?Do you prepare Fido's food in a different spot from where you prep your own?If you answered no to any of the...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors use all sorts of tools to determine if a person is fit and developing normally -- charts tracking height and weight for growing children, tables showing healthy blood pressure and cholesterol in adu...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Humans and their pets tend to share a tight bond, but they may also share antibiotic-resistant bacteria, new research shows.Even worse for humans is the fact that these bacteria may contain antibiotic-resis...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you're one of the millions of people with a common heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation (a-fib), losing weight before treatment may increase the odds that your a-fib doesn’t come back.In a ne...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- So you put on extra pounds during the pandemic. Your cholesterol's too high. Maybe you need to do a better job managing blood pressure. It can feel like a lot to tackle.But taking that firs...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Primary care-based melanoma screening is associated with increased detection of thin melanomas, according to a study published online April 6 in JAMA Dermatology.Martha Matsumoto, M.D., from the University ...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the proportion of admissions with adverse renal outcomes decreased from 2006 to 2019, but racial disparities in outcomes persisted, according to a study...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For a majority of adolescents with severe substance use disorder (SUD), symptomatic substance use will persist in middle age, according to a study published online April 1 in JAMA Network Open.Sean Esteban ...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Simplified blood pressure (BP) screening approaches appear to be reliable for diagnosing hypertension without missing many cases, according to a study published online April 1 in PLOS Medicine.Rodrigo M. Ca...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In-home social cannabis bong smoking is associated with markedly increased levels of fine particulate matter in indoor air, according to a research letter published online March 30 in JAMA Network Open.Patton Khuu Nguyen and S. Katharine Hammond, Ph.D., both from University of California
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients who have undergone hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for hematologic cancer, leukocyte-endothelial interactions visualized directly in skin may help predict prognosis, according to a stu...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Surgical cases involving plastic surgeons have a higher profit margin for hospitals than those performed by any department alone, according to a study published in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstruct...
MIÉRCOLES, 6 de abril de 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Así que subiste unas cuantas libras durante la pandemia. Y tu colesterol está demasiado alto. Y quizás necesites controlar mejor la presión arterial. Puede sentirse como qué es mucho d...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet Wednesday to discuss the best way forward with coronavirus vaccines, as evidence grows that variants are eroding the power of the country...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a new national push to research the nature and impact of long COVID, a constellation of sometimes debilitating symptoms that linger long after infection in nearly one-...
FDA panel meets to craft future COVID vaccine strategy: The panel will hear from experts about whether boosters or new vaccines will be needed going forward. Read moreBiden launches national COVID research initiative: Scientists from numerous federal ...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A record number of American adults are now dying with a dementia diagnosis, new research shows. Yet, that increase of 36% from two decades ago may have more to do with better record-keeping than an actual r...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Israel's government made a second booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine available to all of its citizens aged 60 and older at the beginning of this year.Now, emerging data suggests this fourth dose greatly boo...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccines did a good job protecting most cancer patients against COVID-19, but those with blood cancers remain at risk for breakthrough infections, new research suggests.The study analyzed nationwide data on...
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A proposed rule to ban ongoing uses of the only known form of asbestos imported into the United States has been introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).The ban would apply to chrysotile...
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Fresh government data show that COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents have fallen to the lowest levels seen since the pandemic began.Some 67 residents died nationwide of COVID-19 during the week ending ...
The annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons was held from March 22 to 26 in Chicago and attracted approximately 30,000 participants from around the world. The conference highlighted recent advances in the diagnosis and manageme...
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In an effort to modernize an agency that has come under fire for its handling of the pandemic, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the agency would undergo a m...
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The United States and Canada are investigating a multistate outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from Canada.Restaurants and retailers should not serve or sell these potentially contaminated ...
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare announced Monday that seniors can now walk into most drug stores and get a free over-the-counter COVID-19 test."For the first time in its history, Medicare is paying for an over-the-counter test," De...