FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to announce Friday that most Americans can shed their masks in indoor public settings, as the agency changes how it measures the threat of corona...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Science could be well on its way to a cure for type 1 diabetes, as researchers hone transplant therapies designed to restore patients' ability to produce their own insulin, experts say.At least one patient — a...
FRIDAY, Feb, 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Mass cullings have 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 concer...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- You bite into an apple and suddenly your mouth starts tingling. Or you eat shrimp for dinner and get hives.You're not a kid and you've been able to eat these foods your whole life, so what's going on?A number ...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- At least 5.2 million children worldwide have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19, and researchers say urgent action is needed to help them."We estimate that for every person reported to have died as a resul...
CDC expected to loosen U.S. mask guidance on Friday. The move comes after the agency shifts its focus from community COVID-9 case numbers to the numbers of hospitalizations and local hospital capacity. Read moreIs a cure for type 1 diabetes near? Scie...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Many folks have been waiting over two years for the chance to hear live music and see sports in person again, but if you plan to attend events you still need to protect yourself against COVID, an expert says."...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Headphones have a much greater impact on listeners than external speakers because they put voices "inside your head," a new study explains."Headphones produce a phenomenon called in-head localization, which ma...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- You've just delivered your second or third child, and you're ready to close the door on any future pregnancies. Does it matter whether you choose to use an IUD or have your tubes tied? It turns out that IUDs a...
FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A massive genetic family tree traces the ancestry of all people today.The researchers who created it said it shows how individuals worldwide are related to one another and reveals key events in human evolution...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Mental health disorders among children represent a considerable public health concern, according to research published in the Feb. 25 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity a...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In 2019 to 2020, 10.8 percent of children lived in households that experienced food insecurity, according to a February data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National C...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People who survive the acute phase of COVID-19 are at increased risk for subsequent incident behavioral health disorders, according to a study published online Feb. 16 in The BMJ.Yan Xie, M.P.H., from the Co...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Updated criteria to guide COVID-19 restrictions will be announced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later this week or early next week, according to a CDC scientist involved in the proce...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An increase in telemedicine during the pandemic and easier access to prescription drugs to end a pregnancy may help explain why more than half of U.S. abortions are now done with a combination of medicines i...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Anyone who has more than one dog might have seen it unfold: A beloved pet dies, and the remaining dog seems to suffer as deeply as the rest of the family.Now, new Italian research adds to evidence that man's...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An increase in telemedicine during the pandemic and easier access to prescription drugs to end a pregnancy may help explain why more than half of U.S. abortions are now done with a combination of medicines i...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People who go meat-free, or at least put limits on it, may have lower risks of some of the most common cancers, a new, large study suggests.British researchers stressed that their findings do not prove defin...
MIÉRCOLES, 23 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una amplia variedad de productos de comida humana, comida para mascotas, dispositivos médicos y fármacos han sido retirados por Family Dollar Inc. debido al riesgo de salmonella y otros peligros aso...
MIÉRCOLES, 23 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- En el primer año de la pandemia murieron más mujeres embarazadas de EE. UU., ya fuera durante el embarazo o poco después de dar a luz, informa un nuevo estudio federal.Este aumento afectó de forma p...
MIÉRCOLES, 23 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando su cardiólogo le indica una prueba, ¿le pregunta usted por qué la necesita? Es probable que no, pero quizá debería, según un informe reciente de la Asociación Americana del Corazón (American ...
MIÉRCOLES, 23 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Más de un 90 por ciento de las pruebas a domicilio de COVID-19 gratuitas solicitadas a través del sitio web del gobierno federal se han enviado, en una iniciativa "sin precedentes", aseguró el marte...
MIÉRCOLES, 23 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A principios de la pandemia, los médicos observaron que algunos niños y adolescentes infectados con la COVID-19 luego desarrollaban una complicación relativamente rara, pero con el potencial de pone...
MIÉRCOLES, 23 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las microdosis se han puesto de moda en la era de la legalización de las drogas, y programas de televisión como "Nine Perfect Strangers" fomentan los puntos positivos potenciales de tomar minúsculas...
MIÉRCOLES, 23 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Todos los requisitos de pruebas y cuarentenas para los viajeros a los países miembros de la Unión Europea deberían haberse eliminado el próximo mes para las personas que se hayan vacunado o recupera...
JUEVES, 24 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Esa caminata diaria a las 6 a.m. alrededor de la manzana con su perro quizá sea dura, pero es saludable: una investigación reciente sugiere que el ejercicio y la compañía reducen las probabilidades de ...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In 2020, 861 women were identified as having died of maternal causes in the United States, marking an increase from 754 women in 2019, according to a report published in the February Health E-Stats, a publi...
THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Almost all family intervention models can prevent relapse in schizophrenia, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the March issue of The Lancet Psychiatry.Alessandro Rodolico, M.D.,...