SUNDAY, Feb. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pain or cramping in your legs during physical activity may be an early sign of a condition called peripheral artery disease (PAD) -- and you should get checked out by your doctor, an expert says.PAD occurs whe...
SATURDAY, Feb. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Spring allergies are a perennial annoyance, but if you're focusing on the pandemic, they still could catch you by surprise, an expert says.“People still have COVID on their minds,” said Dr. Mark Corbett, pre...
Here is what the editors at Physician's Briefing chose as the most important COVID-19 developments for you and your practice for the week of Feb. 21 to 25, 2022. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal studies and other trusted sou...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that most Americans can now shed their face coverings in indoor public settings, because the agency has changed how it measures the threat o...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Roughly 4.6 million U.S. children live in a household with loaded and unlocked firearms, according to a research letter published online Feb. 22 in JAMA Network Open.Matthew Miller, M.D., Sc.D., from Northeast...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Dually eligible U.S. veterans have a substantially lower risk for 30-day death when treated at a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital versus a non-VA hospital, according to a study published online Feb. 16 in The BM...
FRIDAY, Feb, 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Mass culling has been implemented as a highly contagious form of avian flu has swept across the eastern half of the United States in recent weeks, killing both farmed poultry and wild birds."It's very concerni...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Family members of patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) with COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) experience a doubled risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symp...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Is the unmasking of America at hand?The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that most Americans can now shed their face coverings in indoor public settings, because the agency has ...
JUEVES, 24 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El calor extremo por el cambio climático dificulta que las personas con enfermedad mental y adicción a las drogas salgan adelante, y empeora la presión en las salas de emergencias de EE. UU., que ya es...
JUEVES, 24 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Docenas de distintos productos en aerosol (desodorantes, champús, protectores solares, tratamientos para el pie de atleta) se han retirado en los últimos meses debido a la contaminación con benceno, un...
JUEVES, 24 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A pesar de las inmensas dificultades de lidiar con una pandemia mundial en los dos últimos años, los estadounidenses siguen igual de optimistas que siempre, muestra una serie de encuestas.Las encuestas...
JUEVES, 24 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Quizá sea más difícil que le limpien los dientes este año, ya que un nuevo estudio muestra una escasez de higienistas dentales en Estados Unidos, debido a la pandemia de la COVID-19."De forma parecida ...
JUEVES, 24 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un medicamento desarrollado para una enfermedad autoinmune se muestra promisorio para tratar una afección inflamatoria potencialmente letal en los niños que han sufrido COVID-19, señalan unos investiga...
JUEVES, 24 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cualquiera que haya tenido más de un perro quizá ya lo haya visto: una querida mascota muere, y el perro que le sobrevive parece sufrir con la misma profundidad que el resto de la familia.Ahora, una nu...
JUEVES, 24 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un aumento en la telemedicina durante la pandemia y un acceso más fácil a los medicamentos recetados para terminar un embarazo podrían ayudar a explicar por qué más de la mitad de los abortos de EE. UU...
VIERNES, 25 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un masivo árbol genealógico delinea el linaje de todas las personas de hoy en día.Los investigadores que lo crearon afirmaron que muestra cómo los individuos de todo el mundo están relacionados entre ...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Women with high blood pressure conditions during pregnancy may face double the risk for kidney disease within several years after giving birth, according to a new study that finds the risk cli...
FRIDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with progressive fibrosing autoimmune disease-related interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), nintedanib slows the rate of decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) compared with placebo, according to a s...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From April 30 to Oct. 31, 2021, there was a 90.0 percent increase in the number of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and caregiver death compared with the number during March 1, 2020, to Apri...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Use of angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) and angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors after a pancreatic cancer (PC) diagnosis is associated with a reduced mortality risk, according to a study pu...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For comatose survivors of cardiac arrest, the incidence of poor neurologic outcome at three months does not differ when a strategy to suppress rhythmic and periodic electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns is ad...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A substantial number of U.S. adults who are prescribed opioids also are prescribed a dual combination of anxiolytic and sedative medications, according to a report published online Feb. 22 in Regional Anesthes...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment may not benefit very elderly individuals with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a study published in the January issue of Sleep Medicine.Miguel An...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with acute ischemic stroke receiving alteplase, use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) in the previous seven days is not associated with an increased risk for intracranial hem...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risk and one-year burden of cardiovascular disease is considerable among survivors of acute COVID-19, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in Nature Medicine.Yan Xie, M.P.H., from the VA St. Louis ...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults are neither knowledgeable nor enthusiastic about aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer disease, according to a research letter published online Feb. 14 in JAMA Network Open.Julie Zissimopoulos...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among pregnant women with epilepsy, dose-normalized concentrations of several antiseizure medications decrease during pregnancy, according to a study published online Feb. 14 in JAMA Neurology.Page B. Pennell...