LUNES, 7 de marzo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Ninguna cantidad de alcohol es buena para el cerebro.Esto afirma un nuevo estudio que encontró que un consumo de alcohol incluso moderado puede envejecer al cerebro más rápido de lo normal.Investigaciones ...
LUNES, 7 de marzo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A medida que el aumento en la COVID impulsado por la variante ómicron mengua, la ciudad de Nueva York anunció que levantará la mayoría de sus restricciones por la pandemia."Debemos volver a reencaminar nue...
LUNES, 7 de marzo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas más altas tienen un riesgo más elevado de cáncer de colon que las más bajitas, y los investigadores plantean que la estatura se debe tomar en cuenta cuando se trata de la detección de la enfer...
MARTES, 8 de marzo de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) de EE. UU. autorizó el lunes la venta de carne de res de ganado editado genéticamente."La decisión de hoy subraya nuestro compromiso con usar un proceso...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Booster doses of COVID vaccines are needed as the highly contagious Omicron variant continues to spread worldwide, a World Health Organization expert group said Tuesday.The group's statement that it "strongly...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Not everyone who becomes forgetful as they age develops dementia, and a new study suggests that those with college degrees and advanced language skills are likely to get better.Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among U.S. adults who were alive in 2015, more than 53 percent are estimated to have had blood lead levels (BLLs) greater than 5 μg/dL in early life, according to a study published online March 7 in the Proce...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of falls among older U.S. adults is increasing at roughly 1.5 percent per year, according to a research letter published online Feb. 11 in JAMA Network Open.Geoffrey Hoffman, Ph.D., from the Uni...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Community-dwelling older adults with dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid have an increased risk for decline in function and cognition after intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalization, according to a stu...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Palliative care can be a godsend in the final days of one's life, but new research shows that Black and Hispanic nursing home residents are far less likely to receive it than their white peers are.Overall, nu...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Eating meat five times or less per week is associated with a lower overall cancer risk, according to a study published online Feb. 24 in BMC Medicine.Cody Z. Watling, from University of Oxford in the United K...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- One in six older patients having hernia surgery undergo reoperation for recurrence within 10 years, according to a research letter published in the March 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Associa...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise may help patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) reduce their risk for developing blood clots, according to a study recently published in Hepatology.Jonathan G. Stine, M.D., from Pennsylvan...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From drowning to being struck by flying debris, the immediate dangers of hurricanes are well known, but these events also boost your risk of dying from a host of hidden diseases and conditions that occur in t...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing cardiac surgery, the lowest threshold values of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I associated with increased rates of death from any cause and major vascular complications at 30 days ...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with serious mental illness (SMI), a clinical decision support (CDS) system aimed at primary care clinicians may modestly reduce the rate of increase in total modifiable cardiovascular (CV) risk,...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with migraine onset in adolescence, according to a study published online Feb. 5 in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain.Using data from the National...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Women with endometriosis more often have migraine, especially those with endometriosis and co-occurring adenomyosis, according to a study published online Jan. 24 in Frontiers in Endocrinology.Yingchen Wu, fr...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you were born before 1996, there's a good chance you were exposed to high levels of lead as a kid, and new research suggests this may have harmed your IQ and boosted your chances of lead-related health con...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- At the 142-year-old Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, New Jersey, the 1,500-member congregation has learned that tending only to spiritual needs is not enough.So, the predominantly Black chur...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There are serious mental harms and high financial costs associated with so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ people, researchers report.Conversion therapy attempts to make lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgende...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday gave the green light to the sale of beef from gene-edited cattle."Today's decision underscores our commitment to using a risk and science-based, data-driven pro...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Here's more evidence of the toll that COVID-19 takes on the human brain: A new study finds biomarkers of neuron damage and brain inflammation in the blood are associated with brain function changes in both ho...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The lost hour of sleep when clocks spring forward for daylight saving time on Sunday, March 13 can pose risks to your heart -- but there are ways to protect yourself.A number of studies have found an increase...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Could a reset of your cells bring you the fountain of youth?Maybe so, if a new study testing the technique in mice ever pans out in humans.Cells in older people and animals have different patterns of chemical...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Regular blood pressure readings at home are more accurate for diagnosing high blood pressure than those taken at a doctor's office, according to a new study."Blood pressure varies a lot over the day … and one...
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A comparison of Neanderthal and modern human spines suggests lifestyle habits of 21st century people lie behind widespread back pain, researchers say.Anthropologists focused on the spine's curvature, which is...
MONDAY, March 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among adults in the United States, mean monthly blood pressure (BP) increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the May issue of the American Heart Journal.Nishant P. Shah, M.D., ...