JUEVES, 20 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Si el sonido de un taladro dental le da escalofríos, es probable que no esté solo: unos investigadores finlandeses afirman que uno de cada dos adultos le tiene miedo al dentista, al menos un poco, mientr...
JUEVES, 20 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Para los padres que tienen un hijo con diabetes tipo 1, la afección de salud puede ser difícil de gestionar, pero una nueva investigación sugiere que un sistema de "páncreas artificial" podría ganarle al...
JUEVES, 20 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Si necesita más pruebas de que una tercera dosis de la vacuna contra la COVID-19 es necesaria, una nueva investigación británica confirma que los refuerzos pueden "neutralizar" a la variante ómicron del ...
Unos médicos trasplantan riñones de cerdo genéticamente modificados a un paciente en muerte cerebral
JUEVES, 20 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- En otro avance en los trasplantes de órganos entre animales y humanos, unos investigadores de EE. UU. afirman que han trasplantado dos riñones de cerdo genéticamente modificados a un humano vivo.El recep...
JUEVES, 20 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- ¿Cree que haber tenido COVID lo protege lo suficiente de otro encuentro con el coronavirus? Una investigación reciente sugiere que añadir la vacunación sigue siendo la mejor opción.Una combinación de la ...
JUEVES, 20 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Hacer la compra de la comida en línea es una práctica que se ha disparado durante la pandemia, pero muchos sitios web dificultan que se encuentre la información nutricional de los productos, muestra un e...
VIERNES, 21 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Si usted o alguien a quien conoce ha sufrido una conmoción, es esencial que se haga una evaluación médica, señala un experto.Una conmoción es "una lesión cerebral funcional de corta duración, en general...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Booster shots are keeping the Omicron variant from landing millions of Americans in hospitals, emergency rooms and urgent care clinics across the country, three new government studies show.In one study, publi...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Your heart is in an incredibly vulnerable state if you've suffered a heart attack or are fighting heart failure, and cardiac rehabilitation could be an important part of your recovery.Unfortunately, not enough...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- One less excuse to avoid that COVID vaccine: The shots don't affect fertility in either men or women, new research shows, but coronavirus infection could cause short-term fertility problems in men."Many reprod...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For young children with peanut allergy, initiation of peanut oral immunotherapy is associated with an increase in desensitization and remission, according to a study published in the Jan. 22 issue of The Lance...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) remained largely unchanged in the United States from 2011 to 2018, according to a research letter published online Jan. 19 in JAMA Cardiology.Yi-Ting Hana Lee, M....
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A delay of five or more hours to admission from the emergency department is associated with increased all-cause 30-day mortality, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in the Emergency Medicine Journal...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Compared with sensor-augmented pump therapy, a hybrid closed-loop system improves glycemic control in young children with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in the Jan. 20 issue of the New England...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Some kids might be able to get over their peanut allergy if they start immunotherapy while they're still toddlers, a major new clinical trial reports.In the trial, a group of 1- to 3-year-olds with severe pean...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- A few weeks before Thanksgiving, Ken and Morgan House of Newington, Connecticut, spent a week at one of her favorite places – Disney World. They walked to all the theme parks, went on countles...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among adults with overweight or obesity, once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide plus counseling for diet and physical activity results in significantly greater weight loss at 68 weeks than once-daily subcutaneou...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one in three pregnant women have reported elevated symptoms of mental health distress and a negative impact on health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the Januar...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Myopia progressed more rapidly in schoolchildren exposed to more COVID-19-related lockdown measures, according to a study published online Jan. 14 in JAMA Network Open.Kai Yip Choi, Ph.D., from the Hong Kong P...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic COVID-19 decreases by 20 weeks after the second dose of BNT162b2 or CHAdOx1-S, but limited waning is seen against COVID-19-related hospitalization and death, according...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Functional brain imaging may identify Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-associated impairment in cannabis users, according to a study published online Jan. 8 in Neuropsychopharmacology.Jodi M. Gilman, Ph.D., from ...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Biosimilar drugs could drive down prices for biologic drugs and generate savings of about $38.4 billion between 2021 and 2025, according to a study published online Jan. 3 in the American Journal of Managed Ca...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Shortages of both supplies and workers are wreaking havoc on the efforts of COVID at-home test makers to deliver enough of the tests to Americans, even as the federal government pledges to provide 500 million ...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Some recreational pot shops are using tricks from the old playbooks of alcohol and tobacco companies to target underage users on social media, a new study reports.Despite state laws restricting such marketing,...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of 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 shows.The di...
Pot vendors are aiming their ads at kids. Some recreational pot shops are using tricks from the old playbooks of alcohol and tobacco companies to target underage users on social media, a new study reports. Read moreCOVID booster shots can keep you out...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Americans don't like to dwell on dying, so maybe it isn't surprising that compared to other nations, the United States does just a middling job of providing a good death.The United States ranked in the middle ...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Herd immunity against COVID-19 is unlikely, and coping with the disease will likely hinge on vaccination, treatment and ensuring adequate hospital capacity, a new study conducted in Los Angeles County claims.W...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Sharing food and smooching are two ways babies can suss out whom they can depend on to take care for them, a new study suggests.The tell-tale clue common to both is a surprising one: saliva. “Babies don’t know...