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 test.“For the first time in its history, Medicare is paying for an over-the-counter test,” Deputy...
How sleepless nights widen your waistline. People who don't get enough sleep tend to eat more, new research shows, and all those extra calories wind up precisely where most people don't want it: around the belly. Read moreNo sign that COVID vaccine in...
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Public health experts have been telling pregnant women that it is safe -- and recommended -- to get a COVID-19 shot because they are at higher risk for poor outcomes and death from the virus.New research now ...
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote William Shakespeare.It appears he was correct.The smells that people like or loathe are determined not by cultural experiences but mostly by the structure ...
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- While hospitals and clinics are known for being slow to turn new evidence into actual practice, they picked up the pace during the pandemic.A research team led by scientists from Thomas Jefferson University i...
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Your pet’s poop and pee may give you clues to how many cancer-causing toxins have taken up residence in your home."Our findings suggest that pets are coming into contact with aromatic amines that leach from p...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Living with a handgun owner is associated with a significantly increased risk for dying by homicide, according to a study published online April 5 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.David M. Studdert, Sc.D., f...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Nonfatal firearm injuries lead to increases in diagnoses of pain disorders, psychiatric disorders, and substance use disorders, with coincident increases in health care spending and use among survivors, accord...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From 2012 to 2019, the average prices charged to commercial health plans by hospitals compared with what Medicare pays remained relatively stable; however, there was considerable regional variation in trends, ...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Almost no one in the world is breathing clean, healthy air, according to a new World Health Organization report, which issued a call for reducing the use of fossil fuels.Air quality is the worst in the WHO Eas...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Women with chronic migraine (CM) report significantly more days with naps than healthy controls, and nap duration is associated with headache severity, according to a study published online March 23 in Behavio...
VIERNES, 1 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las imágenes de ucranianos en camillas siendo sacados de edificios destruidos por las bombas, heridos y sangrando, son desgarradoras, pero un grupo de cirujanos estadounidenses está haciendo su parte par...
VIERNES, 1 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) --Un grupo de 36 voluntarios completaron el primer estudio de desafío humano sobre la COVID-19, tras recibir el virus y entonces ser monitorizados para examinar qué les sucedió tras la infección.Unos invest...
VIERNES, 1 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Si ha tenido la COVID pero no se ha vacunado contra la COVID, quizá se pregunte si vacunarse ahora en realidad ayuda.Sí ayuda, afirman dos estudios recientes.Unos investigadores de Brasil y Suecia confir...
VIERNES, 1 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Unas complicaciones cardiacas importantes poco después de un accidente cerebrovascular (ACV) pueden poner a los sobrevivientes en un mayor riesgo de un ataque cardiaco, la muerte u otro ACV en un plazo d...
VIERNES, 1 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una persona tiene muchas más probabilidades de sobrevivir a un paro cardiaco si los socorristas no médicos inician de inmediato la RCP o usan un desfibrilador externo automático (DEA), según un estudio r...
VIERNES, 1 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una tranquilizadora investigación reciente encuentra que la mayoría de las máscaras faciales que las personas utilizan durante la pandemia no tienen unos niveles altos de unos compuestos llamados sustanc...
VIERNES, 1 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Su capacidad de orientarse quizá esté influida por su entorno en la niñez. Unos investigadores de Reino Unido y Francia han descubierto que las personas criadas en el campo o en los suburbios son mejores...
LUNES, 4 de abril de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Ahora que muchos estadounidenses pueden ponerse no una, sino dos, dosis de refuerzo, ¿cómo puede saber si son adecuadas para usted?Michigan Medicine-Universidad de Michigan ofrece algunos consejos, basados...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Almost no one in the world is breathing good air, according to a new World Health Organization report, which issued a call for reducing the use of fossil fuels. Air quality is the worst in WHO's Eastern Medite...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- As sign-ups for youth football get underway this spring, a new study reveals that Americans may love their football, but half now believe that kids should not play the tackle version of the game.The researcher...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Does youthful experimentation with drugs and alcohol always fade with age? Not necessarily, a long-term study warns.Researchers found that more than 60% of teens who report heavy use of alcohol, marijuana, and...
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MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Efforts to cut back on risky opioid use for pain after surgery are trickling down to kids.New research shows that fewer Americans under the age of 18 were prescribed narcotics to treat surgical pain between 2...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Significantly higher average body mass index (BMI) and obesity prevalence rates were seen among U.S. adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online April 4 in the American Journal o...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Scientists debate whether Hispanic adults, who have higher rates of certain risk factors for cardiovascular disease, are nonetheless less likely to die from it than their non-Hispanic white pe...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From 2014 to 2019, there was a decrease in opioid prescribing after surgery among children, with rapid opioid deadoption beginning in late 2017, according to a study published online April 4 in Pediatrics.Tori...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For individuals with type 2 diabetes, increases in a polygenic risk score (PRS) for elevated blood pressure (BP) are associated with an increased risk for adverse cardiovascular events, according to a research...
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Early ivermectin treatment does not reduce the risk for hospital admission or prolonged emergency department observation visits for adults with symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS...