MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with psoriasis, the risk for cancer is increased at the time of or after venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to a research letter published online Jan. 18 in the British Journal of Dermatology...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccination and previous COVID-19 infection were protective against COVID-19 infection and hospitalization during the alpha and delta severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) waves, accord...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on pediatric oncology health care providers (HCPs), according to a study published online Jan. 24 in Cancer.Elizabeth R. Sniderman, M.S.N., from St. Jude Child...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A brain implant that helps control severe epilepsy in adults may do the same for children who suffer from unrelenting seizures, new research suggests.The study is one of the first to examine the responsive neu...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- STRIDE (Single tremelimumab Regular Interval durvalumab) is proposed as first-line therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (uHCC), according to a study presented at the annual American Society of Cli...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Worrying can take a toll on your psyche, but new research suggests that when middle-aged men fret too much, they face a higher risk for developing diabetes, heart disease or stroke down the road.And this incre...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the immunotherapeutic agent durvalumab to standard chemotherapy improves survival in advanced biliary tract cancer, according to a study presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology Gas...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For health care workers who received a priming dose of the Ad26.COV2.S vaccine, Ad26.COV2.S and mRNA boosters are immunogenic, with the strongest responses after boosting with an mRNA-based vaccine, according ...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An investigational microbiome therapeutic composed of purified Firmicutes spores, SER-109, is superior to placebo for treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, according to a study published i...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines abounds, and people with depression are more likely than others to fall for it, a new study finds."One of the notable things about depression is that it can cause people ...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- At age 16, Barbara Palmer became a single mom. Suddenly, she felt trapped in a community where she had felt so free.As the middle-class daughter of two police officers, she did not expect to b...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay Now) -- Alaina Stanisci has grappled with an eating disorder since she was 10, and the disruptions of the pandemic only made things worse for the high school senior."I actually experienced a relapse at the beginning of...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Injection medications can save the vision of older people with macular degeneration, but the ongoing regimen is taxing. Now a preliminary study raises the possibility that some patients can safely be "weaned o...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (healthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon curtail the use of two monoclonal antibody treatments that do not appear to work against the highly contagious Omicron variant.The treatments made by Regeneron a...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Schools should stock the opioid overdose antidote naloxone and train staff and students how to respond to an overdose, experts say after the apparent fentanyl overdose death of seventh grader at a school in Ha...
U.S. teens in mental health crisis. Data shows that young Americans were already suffering high rates of anxiety and depression before the COVID crisis shut down schools and overturned daily life. Experts and teenagers themselves tell HealthDay Now ab...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A cast is as good as metal pins for treating a broken wrist, researchers report.A broken wrist in which bone fragments move out of their normal alignment is called a displaced wrist fracture. After the bones a...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When American kids do downhill skiing or snowboarding, they almost always wear a helmet, their parents say, but they're far less likely to do so when cruising down a neighborhood hill on a sled. That puts them...
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Losing weight before beginning fertility treatment doesn't boost the odds that a woman who is obese will have a successful pregnancy, a new study shows.Obesity has been linked with difficulty conceiving, as we...
SUNDAY, Jan. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If winter gets you down, you may have a form of depression called SAD.That's short for seasonal affective disorder. SAD brings on mood changes during fall and winter, when there is less sunlight, and symptoms ...
SATURDAY, Jan. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Tobacco use is far and away the leading cause of lung cancer, but non-smokers are also at risk, experts say.People who smoke have the highest risk, and smokeless tobacco is also a threat. About 90% of lung c...
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 Jan. 17 to 21, 2022. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal studies and other trusted sou...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients aged younger than 18 years with diagnosed COVID-19 have an increased risk for newly diagnosed diabetes >30 days after acute infection, according to research published in the Jan. 14 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Prolonged television watching increases the risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online Jan. 20 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.Setor K. Kunutsor, M.B.Ch.B., from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, and colleagues conducted
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There was increased use of telemedicine for surgical consults among some historically underrepresented patient groups during the second phase of the pandemic, according to a study published in the February iss...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Shortages of both supplies and workers are wreaking havoc on the efforts of COVID-19 at-home test makers to deliver enough of the tests to Americans, even as the federal government pledges to provide 500 milli...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for hospitalization for COVID-19 among older Americans is far higher for those who are unvaccinated than for those who are fully vaccinated and have had a booster shot, new government data show.The di...
MIÉRCOLES, 19 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Unas nuevas normas federales prevendrán las grandes fracturas sorpresivas por cualquier colonoscopia realizada tras un resultado positivo en una prueba de heces, afirma un grupo de organizaciones médi...