MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has received full approval for use in people 18 and older, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday.The vaccine, which has been available for that age group under emerg...
VIERNES, 28 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Esa estufa de gas que usa se enciende rápido y cocina la comida de forma uniforme. No tiene nada de malo, ¿no?Resulta que mucho.Las emisiones de las estufas de gas se consideran como importantes contrib...
VIERNES, 28 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando da un diagnóstico de cáncer de hígado, el Dr. Thomas Marron es muy sincero: "el cáncer de hígado es uno de los más letales", les advierte a los pacientes.Jeffrey Foster escuchó ese mensaje de for...
VIERNES, 28 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una importante tormenta de invierno está a punto de asolar al Noroeste de EE. UU., y es esencial hacer un plan para mantener a su familia caliente y segura si hay un apagón.Esto es cierto respecto a cua...
VIERNES, 28 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- La fisioterapia para la artritis de rodilla tiende a costar más dinero a los pacientes, e implica mucho más esfuerzo que una rápida inyección de esteroides para aliviar el dolor en la articulación.Pero,...
VIERNES, 28 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Un robot realizó una difícil cirugía laparoscópica en cerdos sin ninguna ayuda humana, en lo que podría ser un importante paso hacia una cirugía totalmente automatizada en las personas."Nuestros hallazg...
VIERNES, 28 de junio de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas mayores que viven cerca o a favor del viento de los lugares donde se hace fractura hidráulica (fracking) tienen un riesgo más alto de muerte prematura, probablemente debido a los contaminan...
VIERNES, 28 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS) de EE. UU. no está a la altura de las circunstancias cuando se trata de lidiar con diversas crisis de salud pública, afirmó el jueves un órgano de cont...
LUNES, 31 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- ¿Esa botella plástica de agua está ensanchando su cintura?Quizá.En un nuevo estudio, unos investigadores noruegos dijeron que unos compuestos químicos que son comunes en los productos de plástico, como la...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Yet another study is chipping away at the idea that colon and rectal cancers are diseases of older age: In the past couple decades, Americans younger than 40 have shown the steepest rise in advanced cases of t...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The prevalence of obesity is increasing among individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D), and it is associated with an elevated risk for chronic kidney disease, according to a study published online Jan. 26 in the...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Screen time is significantly associated with autism spectrum disorder among boys at age 3 years, according to a study published online Jan. 31 in JAMA Pediatrics.Megumi Kushima, from the University of Yamanashi in Chuo, Japan, and colleagues examined the association between screen time
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Aspirin use is underused for preeclampsia prophylaxis in women with prepregnancy diabetes, obesity, or chronic hypertension or a combination of these factors, according to a research letter published in the Ja...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- California lawmakers must vote by Monday on whether to keep a bill to create a universal health care system moving forward.Monday, Jan. 31, is the last chance for California Democrats in the Assembly to keep t...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Psychiatric comorbidity is associated with higher risks for premature mortality and suicide among individuals with chronic noncommunicable diseases, according to a study published online Jan. 27 in PLOS Medici...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a polygenic risk score (PRS) is associated with radiographic progression, according to a study published online Jan. 20 in Arthritis & Rheumatology.Suguru Honda, M....
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with advanced endometrial cancer, lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab results in significantly longer progression-free and overall survival than the physician's choice of chemotherapy, according to a st...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There has been an increase in the proportion of extremely preterm infants who survive to discharge, according to a study published in the Jan. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.Edward...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The images are never-ending: Celebrities like Kim Kardashian posting one sultry shot after another on social media. But new research warns this constant barrage of "perfect" bodies can undermine the self-estee...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- People who follow seven rules for healthy living – such as staying physically active and eating a healthy diet – could offset a high genetic risk for heart disease, according to new research t...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Surgical fixation with K-wires does not improve patients' wrist function at 12 months compared with a cast among patients with dorsally displaced distal radius fracture, according to a study published online J...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), use of a balanced multielectrolyte solution (BMES) does not reduce the risk for death or acute kidney injury compared with use of saline, according...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A new multimodal learning algorithm can perform multilabel classification of skin lesions, according to a study published in the February issue of Medical Image Analysis.Peng Tang, from the Technical Universit...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The hazards of drunken driving are well known, and a new research review shows that adding pot to the mix only makes matters worse.The analysis of 57 past studies found that the combination of alcohol and mari...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The so-called "stealth" variant of Omicron isn't likely to cause another devastating wave of COVID-19, experts say.The new version of the variant, called BA.2, doesn't appear to cause more severe disease and v...
Scientists say new 'stealth' Omicron variant poses little threat.The variant, called BA.2, doesn't appear to cause more severe disease and vaccines are just as effective against it as they are against the original Omicron variant (BA.1), experts say. ...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Is your plastic water bottle widening your waistline?Could be. In a new study, Norwegian researchers said that chemicals in common plastic products like water bottles or food packaging may put you at risk of p...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It's crucial to keep preschoolers away from screens and other sources of light in the hour before bedtime if you want them to get a good night's sleep, researchers say. That's because even a little bit of lig...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Workplace exposure to pesticides may boost a person's risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study finds.COPD is a group of lung diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems...
MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Most American adults don't know that alcohol boosts cancer risk, but a majority support steps to increase awareness of the link, a new nationwide survey shows.""It is important that people are made fully aware...