FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Some arthritis drugs may reduce the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, according to the Arthritis Foundation, which also offers advice on booster shots.Research is limited, but evidence suggests that disease-mod...
FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you or someone you know has suffered a concussion, a medical evaluation is crucial, an expert says.A concussion is "a short-lived functional brain injury typically caused by a bump or blow to the head," Cle...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Recommendations have been updated for use of the recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) for prevention of herpes zoster and related complications among immunocompromised adults aged 19 years and older; the recomme...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From 2019 to 2020, there was no significant change in fetal mortality rates, according to a January Vital Statistics Rapid Release report, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There is no evidence to support administering antibiotic prophylaxis before invasive dental procedures (IDP) in patients with prosthetic joints, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in JAMA Network ...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Suicide attempts among U.S. adults increased from 2008 to 2019, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in JAMA Psychiatry.Tanner J. Bommersbach, M.D., from the Yale University School of Medicine in Ne...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Meeting the American Thoracic Society (ATS)-recommended air quality standards (limit long-term fine particular matter to 8 µg/m3) would yield significant health benefits, according to a study published recen...
MIÉRCOLES, 19 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Inglaterra abandonará varias restricciones por la COVID, porque los expertos del gobierno consideran que la variante ómicron "ha llegado a su pico nacional", anunció el miércoles el Primer Ministro br...
MIÉRCOLES, 19 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Incluso en un entorno en el que las personas blancas y negras tienen el mismo acceso a la atención médica, a los estadounidenses negros les va peor que a los blancos en términos del cáncer de próstata...
MIÉRCOLES, 19 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una espera aparentemente interminable en un departamento de emergencias puede ser agobiante por muchos motivos, pero una nueva investigación sugiere que los grandes retrasos en la admisión al hospital...
MIÉRCOLES, 19 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Una afección inflamatoria rara y grave, llamada SIM-N, puede atacar a los niños semanas después de su recuperación de una infección con la COVID.Pero ahora hay buenas noticias para los padres: los niñ...
MIÉRCOLES, 19 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Incluso aunque no tenga efectos secundarios con la vacuna contra la COVID-19, es probable que de cualquier forma funcione y lo proteja, muestra un nuevo y tranquilizador informe.Muchas personas que ha...
MIÉRCOLES, 19 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- ¿Vio cómo su cintura se ensanchó durante el confinamiento? No es el único.Casi la mitad de los adultos de EE. UU. acumularon peso durante el primer año de la pandemia, lo que empeora incluso más la cr...
MIÉRCOLES, 19 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Estar sin hogar ya es bastante difícil, pero cuando la situación se complica con unos problemas graves de salud mental, el resultado puede ser una incapacidad para funcionar incluso al nivel más básic...
JUEVES, 20 de enero de 2022 (HealthDay News) -- ¿Quién no ha comenzado a ver una nueva serie dramática en la tele, y de repente se ha dado cuenta que han pasado horas mientras se daba un atracón de un episodio tras otro?Ahora, un nuevo estudio sugiere...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If the sound of a dental drill sends shivers up your spine, you're likely in good company: Finnish researchers say that one of every two adults fear the dentist at least a little, while one in 10 are very af...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Having a child with type 1 diabetes can be a challenging health condition for parents to manage, but new research suggests an "artificial pancreas" system may beat standard treatment in controlling the blood...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Women with, versus without, a history of breast cancer have a higher incidence of hypertension and diabetes up to 10 years following diagnosis, according to a study published online Jan. 13 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.Marilyn L. Kwan, Ph.D., from Kaiser Permanente
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Same-day discharge (SDD) is becoming more common for both total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA), according to a study recently published online in the Journal of Arthroplasty.Eytan M. Debbi, M.D., Ph.D., from the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of U.S. adults report gaining weight during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online in the January issue of Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you need more proof that a third shot of COVID vaccine is needed, new British research confirms that boosters can "neutralize" the virus' Omicron variant.To arrive at that conclusion, they analyzed 620 b...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Insurers could prevent substantial waste by restricting prescription coverage for inappropriate use of ivermectin for COVID-19, according to a research letter published online Jan. 13 in the Journal of the A...
TURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In an article published online Dec. 29 in Cancers, long-term adverse and positive outcomes are described for survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).Charlotte Sleurs, Ph.D., from the Univers...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A nomogram can assist clinicians in predicting cancer-specific survival in patients with primary intestinal non-Hodgkin lymphoma (PINHL), according to a study published online Dec. 20 in Cancer Management an...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Most emergency department interventions aimed at cutting opioid prescribing cut the prescription rate but not the prescribed opioid quantity, according to a review published online Jan. 13 in JAMA Network Op...
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A fourth dose of an mRNA-based anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine may increase antispike immunoglobulin (Ig)G titers in kidney transplant recipients, according to a research letter published online Jan. 11 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Sophie Caillard, M.D., Ph.D., from
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The inclusion of a certified wound and skin care nurse on a multiprofessional prone-positioning team significantly reduces the odds of pressure injuries developing in patients hospitalized with severe COVID-...