TUESDAY, Oct. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- As a consumer, you probably see "heart healthy" labels on food items all the time. But do you really know what heart health means and why it's important?Experts from Tufts University in Boston offer some deta...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Implementation of opioid use disorder (OUD) screening in primary care does not increase the percentage of patients with a new OUD diagnosis in a clinically meaningful way, according to a research letter publis...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For women with myocardial infarction (MI), stress and depression are common at the time of MI and two months later, according to a study published in the Oct. 24 issue of the Journal of the American College of...
The annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology was held from Oct. 1 to 4 in San Diego and attracted approximately 11,000 participants from around the world, including physicians, oncology nurses, radiation therapists, biologists, p...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The drugstore chain Rite Aid has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, due largely to competition and thousands of lawsuits for its role in allegedly filling unlawful opioid prescriptions.The company filed a notice...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new rule allows health care providers to be reimbursed for treating homeless people wherever they are, rather than just in hospitals or clinics. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began allowi...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new rule allows health care providers to be reimbursed for treating homeless people wherever they are, rather than just in hospitals or clinics. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began ...
Antibiotics are lifesaving drugs that help combat bacterial infections, but they can be misused.This article will dive into the topic of antibiotics, understanding what they are, how they function, the types available, what infections they treat (and ...
A surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection that happens where you had surgery. SSIs happen in 2% to 4% of people who have surgery while in the hospital, says the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Even though most infections can be treat...
LUNES, 16 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El Colegio Americano de Médicos de Emergencias (ACEP por sus siglas en inglés), un destacado grupo de médicos, retiró el jueves un artículo utilizado en casos judiciales para justificar el uso excesivo ...
LUNES, 16 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Nuevas investigaciones revelan tendencias preocupantes para el cáncer de pulmón en mujeres jóvenes y de mediana edad.La incidencia del cáncer en mujeres jóvenes es mayor que en hombres, una tendencia co...
LUNES, 16 octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Para algunas mujeres mayores, las infecciones urinarias recurrentes y los antibióticos que generalmente se recetan para combatirlas, se vuelven parte de la vida, pero un nuevo estudio ofrece un tratamiento...
LUNES, 16 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Dos años después de que un riñón de cerdo editado genéticamente fuera trasplantado a un mono, los investigadores informan que el mono todavía está vivo."Somos el único grupo en el campo que aborda de ma...
LUNES, 16 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- La capacidad de detectar el cáncer de piel utilizando software de inteligencia artificial (IA) ha mejorado rápidamente.Una nueva investigación presentada el miércoles en una conferencia médica en Berlín...
LUNES, 16 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Después de un lanzamiento problemático, ahora más de 7 millones de estadounidenses han recibido las nuevas vacunas actualizadas contra la COVID-19.Desafortunadamente, esto todavía está rezagado en compa...
LUNES, 16 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Tras una huelga de tres días ( la semana pasada), se ha alcanzado un acuerdo tentativo entre Kaiser Permanente y sus 75,000 trabajadores de la salud."Los trabajadores de atención médica de primera línea...
LUNES, 16 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Nueva investigación sugiere que las mujeres afroamericanas mayores que utilizan relajantes capilares químicos para alisar el cabello pueden tener más probabilidades de desarrollar cáncer de útero.Especí...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A liver transplant can give people a new lease on life, but at the cost of lifelong immune-suppressing medication and its risks. Now an innovative approach to reduce, or possibly eliminate, certain patients' r...
Bedsores strike many of those who are largely confined to a bed or wheelchair, and they are tough to treat.Every year, over 2.5 million Americans suffer from pressure sores, also known as bedsores or pressure ulcers. These cause pain, raise the risk o...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Use of small-volume blood collection tubes in the intensive care unit (ICU) may decrease red blood cell (RBC) transfusions, according to a study published online Oct. 12 in the Journal of the American Medical ...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Driving skills measured at the time of licensure can predict crashes early in licensure, according to a study published online Oct. 16 in Pediatrics.Elizabeth A. Walshe, Ph.D., from the Children's Hospital of ...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For older adults, care use and financial burden increase substantially over time for those with dementia versus those without, according to a study published online Oct. 16 in JAMA Internal Medicine.HwaJung Ch...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Maternal vaccination with a bivalent stabilized prefusion F subunit respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine (RSVpreF) is projected to reduce the clinical and economic burden of RSV lower respiratory tract il...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- At five years, five-fraction stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is noninferior to control radiotherapy for biochemical/clinical failure (BCF) in men with localized prostate cancer (LPCa), according to a stu...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide, red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is common, with considerable variability across centers, countries, and continents, according to a study publish...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Mistriage of non-White patients in the emergency department appears to be common, according to a study published online Oct. 12 in JAMA Network Open.Joshua W. Joseph, M.D., from Brigham and Women's Hospital in...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Differences in outcomes by race and ethnicity exist for men with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC); however, equal access to care appears to lessen these disparities, according to a s...
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Less than one-third of patients who undergo transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) appear to participate in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) within 90 days of discharge, according to a study published online...