FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Federal health officials announced Friday that they are expanding nationwide efforts to track COVID-19 by monitoring virus levels found in raw sewage.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects ...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The American Red Cross is pleading for donors as it grapples with its worst blood shortage in more than a decade.The organization supplies 40 percent of the nation's blood supply, but has had to limit blood pro...
FRIDAY, Jan. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare will soon provide up to eight free COVID-19 rapid tests a month to seniors enrolled in the government health insurance program, the Biden administration announced Thursday.The new policy for the over-t...
JUEVES, 3 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Tras un caso grave de COVID-19, algunos niños sufren unas complicaciones neurológicas duraderas, parte de una rara afección llamada síndrome inflamatorio multisistémico en los niños (SIM-N), encuentra u...
JUEVES, 3 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La enfermedad de las encías se ha vinculado con un aumento en el riesgo de nacimiento prematuro, y ahora, una nueva investigación sugiere que consumir chicle sin azúcar con xilitol durante el embarazo p...
Aumenta la tasa de ACV de los estadounidenses jóvenes, mientras la de las personas mayores se reduce
JUEVES, 3 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Aunque ha habido un declive pronunciado en las tasas de accidente cerebrovascular (ACV) entre los adultos mayores durante los últimos 30 años, unos crecientes números de estadounidenses jóvenes están su...
JUEVES, 3 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Ya hay una mayor disponibilidad de las pruebas de COVID-19 a domicilio, que estaban resultando difíciles de encontrar, sobre todo dado que el gobierno de EE. UU. está ofreciendo cuatro pruebas gratuitas...
JUEVES, 3 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El accidente cerebrovascular (ACV) es una complicación posible de la COVID-19, y los investigadores afirman que ahora saben en qué momento se presenta el mayor riesgo.Un nuevo estudio de los Centros par...
JUEVES, 3 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Los hombres que se ven impulsados a encontrar a innumerables parejas y forma de tener sexo novedosas quizá se vean impelidos por unos niveles altos de la supuesta "hormona del amor, la oxitocina, sugier...
JUEVES, 3 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Alan Holman no dejó de hacer ejercicio cuando le dijeron que tenía cáncer, y se alegra, ahora que unos investigadores de Reino Unido afirman que un ejercicio moderado podría mejorar los resultados de la...
VIERNES, 4 de febrero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Tal vez su sentido del olfato no sea tan bueno como el de sus ancestros.Un nuevo estudio que evaluó las percepciones de los voluntarios de las pruebas a varios aromas, incluyendo el olor de axilas, amp...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It's less enchanting than reading tea leaves, but federal health officials announced Friday that they are expanding nationwide efforts to track COVID-19 by monitoring virus levels found in raw sewage.The U.S. C...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The American Red Cross is pleading for donors as it grapples with its worst blood shortage in more than a decade.The shortage poses a risk to patient care because doctors are forced to make decisions about whi...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- New cases of a debilitating and often deadly type of stroke that causes bleeding in the brain have been increasing in the U.S., growing at an even faster rate among younger to middle-aged adult...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- At 4:30 a.m. on a Monday morning last spring, Peter Denton got up in darkness, dressed and jumped in his pickup truck. The drive to his work site in Detroit took a little more than an hour.As a...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For hospitalized COVID-19 patients, bleeding events are more common after receiving full-dose anticoagulation, according to a study published online Dec. 27 in Hospital Pharmacy.Maya R. Chilbert, Pharm.D., from...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Fundamental reform of regulatory systems is needed to address the opioid crisis in North America and beyond, according to recommendations from a Commission report published online Feb. 2 in The Lancet.Keith Hum...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with ischemic stroke, use of tenecteplase (TNK) for thrombolysis is associated with a lower rate of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) than alteplase (ALT), according to a study presented a...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There has been a significant increase in the number of type 1 diabetes (T1D) diagnoses in children during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Jan. 24 in JAMA Pediatrics.Bethany L. Gotte...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Physical, mental, and cognitive symptoms are frequent among COVID-19 survivors one year after intensive care unit (ICU) discharge, according to a study published online Jan. 24 in the Journal of the American Me...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Daridorexant (50 mg) improves both nighttime symptoms and daytime functioning in people with insomnia disorder, according to a study published in the Feb. 1 issue of The Lancet Neurology.Emmanuel Mignot, M.D., ...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with heart failure and an ejection fraction of greater than or equal to 40 percent, placement of an atrial shunt device does not reduce the rate of heart failure events, according to a study publis...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Gastric emptying is delayed in parturients, while labor epidural analgesia seems to facilitate gastric emptying after a light meal, according to a study published online Feb. 1 in Anesthesiology.Lionel Bouvet, ...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For most cancers, there is no association between migraine and cancer risk, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain.Holly Elser, M.D., Ph.D., from the Hospit...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Choroidal thickness is significantly reduced among individuals with migraine versus healthy controls, according to research published online Jan. 27 in the Survey of Ophthalmology.Mahdi Gouravani, from the Tehr...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans are bone-weary following two straight years of pandemic stress, and a new HealthDay/Harris Poll shows that sleeplessness is only part of the problem.One-third of poll participants said they feel ...
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- You have almost certainly seen the pleas while scrolling through social media: Called crowdfunding, folks try to raise money to pay for their sick loved one's mounting medical bills.But new research shows these...
FRIDAY, Jan. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare will soon provide up to eight free COVID rapid tests a month to seniors enrolled in the government health insurance program, the Biden administration announced Thursday.The new policy for the over-the-...